Job Happiness

In the midst of job hunting, I am grateful enough to have actually snagged a job (a great one). Over the summer, I was doing two unpaid internships both revolving around writing. One provided opportunities for me to actually get paid and this consisted of flyer work and social media postings. Although the flyer work became disastrous, the social media posting/promoting was and still is easy for me. I was able to add another skill and experience to my resume. But, I like to gain new skills and I knew that if I had a job over the fall, I can add even more skills to my resume.

However, applying to jobs is never easy. After weeks of interviewing and receiving rejection letters a week later, I got discouraged. I would kill these interviews, but people weren’t willing to hire me. I always tried to remain positive in the sense that maybe I really didn’t belong to the environment that I was applying to. After all, everything happens for a reason. But, you need a great amount of patience to maintain this positivity.

I must say though, my miracle came from pure luck. After applying to a million office positions jobs, I really wanted an office position, my cover letters looked the same. I would just edit it, paste the name of the department I am applying to and submit. I accidentally sent the wrong cover letter to my current supervisor. I initially sent her the correct one, but as a Google Drive link. After a week of hearing nothing, I assumed I didn’t receive the position and proceeded to edit that Google Drive link for another position. It wasn’t until another week later, I received an email that my application/email was going to be flagged because it consisted of a different position (I will never send google drive links ever again as they update each time you edit it). After emailing back and forth panicking trying to fix everything, we set up an interview and the day after I was so pleased to see that “we are pleased to offer you” words in my Gmail.

This was a bit tangent, like all my blogs are, but I can just imagine how tough it is to get a job in the real world if it is this hard to get a job within my own school. It is a frustrating process and sometimes you even start to question your own skills leading to a loss of confidence. On the other hand, although this may sound narcissistic, job hunting left me realizing the potential these employers lost. Job hunting also exposed many faults that employers have themselves and I think it is important to realize that everything isn’t always your fault. Right now at my current job, I am doing the basic office duties while getting my homework done in a nice timely manner. Although I have messed up the simplest of tasks, I am still learning and I have already fallen in love with the calm, spacious environment that is filled with well-mannered employers. There is a joy attained by being patient and remaining positive even in the suckiest times because many times only you yourself truly understands the struggle…. and Twitter 🙂 After all, positive minds are the strongest.