Job Hunting Stinks

Posted Saturday, June 02, 2007 12:10 AM

Job hunting around here is the worst.  Since DH is trying to finish grad school, our plan is to move next May/June.  Meanwhile, I'm stuck trying to find a salaried job in Collegetown, USA.  Let me tell you, unless you are an engineer or a professor, there ain't much.  I'm currently substituting in a county whose pay is 16% below state average and that doesn't give degreed subs higher pay than high school graduates.  I try to find jobs, I look, but it gets so frustrating, especially this spring when I was tutoring at night after I subbed all day. 

 DH doesn't seem to understand.  He tries to give me "tips/help," but to me it comes across as "you aren't doing it right, and if you'd do it my way you'd have a job."  I've told him I just need him to say, that sucks, you'll find a job, etc, but he doesn't seem to get it.  I really feel like a failure because of this.  What woman who lived in the honors dorm, has 2 BS degrees, served as an officer in her sorority, and pretty much has just done everything she can to get good experience not even be able to get a job as a bank teller??  I know that  I'm overqualified for that, but if I was and still wanted the job enough to apply, why would you turn that down? 

 And another thing is that I do like what I'm doing right now, so why would I want to sell insurance on commission basis when I can teach and work with kids and college athletes to help them succeed in the world?  I really do love subbing for preschool and 7th grade.  I love tutoring college calculus and seeing the lightbulb moments when concepts click.

 My mom is constantly on me to take my GREs and just apply for grad school and then DH would have to come with me or I'd go alone, but that's not what we want.  I really just want a credit analyst or personal banker job at a bank, commercial or ag related, to get some experience under my belt so I can apply for the joint MBA/MS in agribusiness program at Purdue/Indiana in 3-5 years.

But somehow for now, I have to find any job.  How do we save for a house and a baby, both of which I want desperately in the next year and a half, without a good paycheck for me?  I may even be looking at shift-work at the local tractor supply or michaels b/c that's all that's around here.  I'm not saying I'm above it, but I just want to use my degree and be able to find a salaried job. 

 AND - how do you get experience if no one will hire you?