Plans
This may just be my last ten days in the English countryside talking, but I think the time is at hand where I'm going to get another one of those jobs where I can squirrel money away as fast and hard as I can, just like my mom taught me, so I can buy a house in the country. The Ohio country, where things are cheap and tomatoes taste like tomatoes, where maple trees produce a proper autumn and where I may have to get a car, but things will be silent and dark in the night, which I think is what I want most of all. I wonder, does that make me a mushroom?
posted by Christine Borne at 9:31 AM
6 Comments:
Sounds like a good plan.
But when your potential employers in high-paying jobs find this blog entry they may not hire you.
Well, I could see your point if I'd said something like, "I'm going to step on as many poor saps as possible to get a high paying job I don't deserve so I can routinely abuse the company credit card by taking unauthorized trips to Las Vegas! bwahahaha!"
I didn't say that though, because that's not how I feel.
I would hope that any reasonable employer would not fault a jobseeker for stating that they wanted a higher-paying job so they could buy a house. :\
Raises an interesting question though...can one even mention the *idea* of work in a personal blog without having to worry about potential future employer recriminations? I'll have to ponder this one a bit....
Problem with your post: you mention that you want to move to Ohio.
So if you ever apply for a library job in say, Montana, New York City, New Jersey etc. you probably won't be asked for an interview. The hiring committee will use this post as a reason to reject your application.
Most libraries want long-term commitments and long-term loyalty from their employees, even though they can't reciprocate and offer their employees the same commitment.
They want you to be available for however long they need you, even if they can't provide you with continuous employment.
They don't want to employ someone who really wants to be elsewhere.
But I *do* want to be in Ohio!
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I think Christine's point is that she's not going to apply for jobs outside of Ohio. And in fact, an Ohio employer seeing this post might say, "Well she obviously wants to live here, so she's thinking long term and will stick with us." When I'm applying for jobs on the west side of Cleveland, I mention in the cover letter that I'm interested in moving to the west side and thus X Company would be a good fit, because that's the truth.
People said similarly about a prototype portfolio site I made for myself in a college web design class. Somewhere on the site, I mentioned that I wasn't interested in working in New York or LA. Several class members suggested I remove that part in case I'm offered a job in one of those places. I said... uh, but I just said I don't want to live/work there; why would I accept a job there? :)
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