whatever tomorrow brings....

[fiarra]

I just need a minute to rant about job searching. Mostly because it's really frustrating trying to find something that fits my needs.

I finally got an answer from Sylvain and it managed to throw me into a darker mood than I had been previously (it's been one of those days...). Basically he says he can offer me a 2-3 days a week summer position to finish up the last pieces of my thesis research, add another component and then make it into a paper. What this says to me is that there's no hope for the fall. And that.. sucks. Mostly because I know it would be extremely convenient for me to be working at UCONN again in the fall and it seems like it's not going to work.. at least with Sylvain. I replied to his rather discouraging email asking for clarification on the lack of possibility for the fall, but I'm not really counting on much now.

So now it's time to get working... vigorously. I already asked him if anyone in the patho department would be interested in hiring someone fulltime for the coming academic year. At the same time, I think I need to send an email to my EEb advisor. If I can get into a lab in the EEB department, or barring that the MCB department, for the year then I think I can work this out.

I'm just kinda... not sure what to do. I guess somewhere in the back of my mind, to a certain extent, I was just really hoping that I could get into the Sylvain lab and call it a day. So now I'm going to have to go into overdrive trying to find something else. I'm trying to compile a list of places I could get a job. Scientific places... Unfortunately, beyond Pfizer.. I'm not entirely sure what else is available in CT. And thats clear for now.. I need to be staying in CT and I need to be doing something science related.

Ugh... now I have a headache. I would try to work at another university.. except I have a lack of contacts and I'm not sure how exactly one would go about emailing a random professor at another university and saying, yo i want a job. I feel like that wouldn't go over so well.

I think that I'll be accepting Sylvain's offer regardless because it means that I'll be able to finish the research I started and end the summer with submitting a real paper on it. Since I was kinda disappointed that never happened... its looking like a good idea now. But that's assuming I don't find something else that wants me for the summer too.

;__; I don't know how people do this. Seriously. If any of you people out there on my friends list have any ideas.... or help.... or anything... you would be on my favorite people ever list I think...

Yes.. science.. jobs... This is really frustrating. =\