[friday.night]

I should be out.
I'm not.
Obviously.
I'm so freaking tired I should probably go to bed soon.
The drunkards down the way are having a party.
Yeah college!
Instead of going to a victory celebration (a mutual friend just got elected student body president) I'm going to seriously start looking for a job.

In about...72ish hours I will find out if I'll be spending the next year of my life in Boston.
I really hope I get accepted.
I don't really want to enter the real, real world quite yet.
That's a lie.
I do.
What I should say is I don't want to have to find a real world job.

I've had 7 jobs in my life.
Now, that may sound a little excessive, but 4 of those 7 were within the same department, I just held different positions.
Of those 7 jobs, I've interviewed for and earned (without the help of anyone) 2.

My first job was taking care of my grandma when I was 14.
I literally got paid for staying home and watching TV with my then 84-year-old grandmother.
When she died in 2004, I probably became one of the youngest people in the entire state of California to receive unemployment benefits.
I was 17.

My next job was working as a receptionist at a doctor's office.
I was 19.
We saw patients two days out of the week.
The other three days I spent alone in the office.

My aunt was the one to hook me up with that job.
I had just interviewed for (and been rejected from) a job at Buckle at our local mall.
When I went to my (other) grandma's that night I was venting on how I couldn't find a job and my aunt told me that one of the doctors she worked for was looking for a temporary receptionist.
She wasn't sure how long they'd need me, but she told me they'd pay me pretty well.

[I just realized that I've had one more temp job.
Again, my aunt hooked me up with that one.]

I ended up working as a receptionist for about 10 weeks until the lady I was filling in for came back from med. leave.

That fall (2006) I interviewed for a data-entry position in my school's office of admissions.
Probably the smartest move on my part of my entire college career.
I started that job and quickly mastered our database software.

In the spring (2007) I applied for a position as an Admissions Host (tour guide) for the school.
I wasn't too sure if they'd hire me.
If it weren't for the fact that my applying was basically an internal hire (since I was already working in Admissions) and my supervisor was one of the Ad-Host supervisors, I wouldn't have gotten the job.

After working in Admissions for about a year, I applied for a job at CG.
I was pretty proud of myself for not bombing the interview and actually scoring the job.

During winter break '07 and spring break '08 I worked with my aunt (at another doctor's office) doing medical transcription.
I worked a total of maybe three weeks.
This is why I forget to mention it.

I re-applied for my Ad-Host job and got rehired for this year (same job, different job-title; we're up to 6 jobs at this point).
At the same time, I applied for a job as a Student Director (i.e. student supervisor of the Ad-Hosts).
Job #7.
This is where I'm at now.

[Oh, and add in there somewhere apprentice Avon lady.
My grandma was an Avon lady.
I used to sell Avon to my teachers and friends since I was about 10.
And some volunteer stuff.
I was a tutor/mentor/babysitter at an after-school program last year.]

See--I attained most of my jobs through networking of some sort.
I hate that.
I want to get a job that I actually earned.
Not because I knew someone who knew someone, but because of my own hard work and perseverance.
Hopefully that'll be the case for my first real, real world job.
The only problem with that is that I actually have to set time aside to work on my résumé and learn how to write a decent cover letter and all that jazz.

I do have a résumé.
I do have something that resembles a cover letter (speaking of which, I need to pick up the one I gave to my professor to look over).
All I have to do is narrow down what I want to do/what jobs I'm actually qualified for and submit some applications.

I'll work on narrowing down the list of jobs tonight.

Also, I just realized how long this entry is.
Oh, well.