Finding a Job

I'm still unemployed.

Yesterday, another jobless friend of mine and I walked around the financial heart of the metropolis to submit applications in various agencies, companies, embassies. Yes, we were walk-in applicants, and clueless if there really is an open position. It was one of the most difficult things I've gone through chasing careers, but I don't regret doing so. It was fun, especially when you do it with a friend. Thankfully a lot of offices were accommodating even collecting our resumes, and some were just so stern to say that they don't have any open jobs at the moment and never hesitated to get our resumes. We were never interviewed, which was fine, as we don't have an appointment with the HR. But sometimes it felt like asking "who are we? didn't we graduate from a good school and got good degrees? don't we have good credentials etc.?"

It was also hot and humid yesterday. And we were both wearing corporate attire. We also had to debate with a few security guards for us to be let inside certain buildings. Even if I have a lot of issues from yesterday, come to think of it, most of them were actually things that were expected to happen.

We just weren't warned that jobhunting can actually cause you to have altitude sickness and mild claustrophobia. Really. As we went out of the last elevator we were in, we both felt sick and dizzy. I think I rode the elevator some 30 times yesterday. And there are actually a lot of types of elevators. Some are just too fast, and some are too small.

But we're going to do this again, next week, until we land in an interview and finally get a job. So beware! Say "Hi!" if you see us!

For now, I'm calling various offices if they have positions. It's to save us from being a bit aimless like yesterday.

Oh yeah, remember that post when I said something about having a lot of interviews in that week? Well, for all of them, I only went to the initial interview. Some of the offers were either too low or too offshoot from my experience, while some just never called me again for the second interview.