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roller coaster ride to get out of MT - memt

Posted: Feb 29, 2012

It sure is an up-and-down ride of emotions when trying to get a new job. I've been applying for jobs outside of MT since November. You go on this ride up while you're applying, thinking how good the job looks, thinking you will receive a call within a couple days, and knowing that you can do it...but then you slowly take a ride down after weeks of not hearing anything. All of a sudden, the ride starts to go back up when you get that call for an interview. While waiting day after day until you go on the interview, you are going through the loops of the coaster with your emotions, conflicted on whether this is really what you want to do, although in your heart you know it is what is best for you, considering the MT field these days. Then you go on the interview and you are on top of the coaster thinking all went well and you pray you will get the job... why not? right? you can do it, you have the experience. Then, there goes that slow ride back down, not fast like a real coaster, but slowly spiraling down with each thought of what you should have said in the interview, day by day as you receive no call on whether you get the job or not. Finally, you come to the end of the ride and crash... you didn't get the job. Well, onto the next ride. Here we go again. On my way up again to the next interview tomorrow.

you got this - my prayer

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I think you should do some deep breathing exercises and a few yoga stretches, and then go to that interview completely relaxed. Do not, I repeat, do not think about what you are giving up by going to this interview! You will gain so much more than you can even imagine at this point. Keep that chin held high, and know that we all are praying that you step into the exact job that will be your perfect fit!

awww, thank you for your kindness. - memt

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i will take your advice tomorrow a.m.

Good luck!!!! - nm

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:)

I've been on that ride before. SM - Target On My Forehead

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My most recent interview was a couple years ago. They're pretty few and far between, these days. I had really pulled myself together, had new clothes, high heels, and the whole nine yards, looked great. I felt great. I felt the perfect job had finally come my way. I felt like I had aced the interview. I had the qualifications, and lord knows I had the motivation, because that job would've pulled me out of my current poverty. After the interview, I practically skipped all the way back to my car, because I was just CERTAIN I'd gotten the job.

But, like you, no callback. No job offer. That gradual downward spiral towards depression again. Eventually I did hear back that I didn't get the job. Which at least sets them apart from most other places I've applied. But riddle me this: Why, when they advertize for a certain skill set, which I HAVE, a minimum of 5 years' experience, which at 25+ years I MORE than have, and everything seems to be a "go", do they tell me that the reason someone else was hired was because I "didn't have enough experience".

Whaaaaat??

not enough experience, apparently... - wheres_my_job

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of being young. Recently young. Not young 25+ years ago - you see, your skill set of being young is rusty - you haven't been really young for a while. We want someone with recent youth experience (I'll be facing the same thing soon) (best of luck to both of us).

I know you're being sarcastic, and that was funny. - HOWEVER! Without going into - sm

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my actual age, I pretty much still AM in my 'youth'. Very few gray hairs yet (naturally), in good physical condition, still do various sports, etc. When I tell people my real age, they're usually shocked, because they thought I was 20 years younger.

That's why I get so exasperated with the age-discrimination based on my experience alone, from an online application, because if they saw me in person, they'd know that I didn't exactly have one foot in the grave yet.

Unfortunately, that was the only live interview I've gotten in 3+ years of job-hunting. I've had 1 other call-back, which was for a part-time job that was in a nearby hospital. I was hoping to supplement my MTSO income with the most realist pay of a part-time inhouse job. But when I got the call-back, it turned out the first 3-6 months of that job they didn't want me part-time, they wanted me full-time. That would've been good if it had stayed full-time, but it didn't. And no benefits offered during that 3-6 month period. So I just couldn't afford to give up the benefitted job I already had, to go with one that was going to go from non-benefitted temporary full-time, back to part-time.

I've walked into the HR departments of hospitals I know have MT Depts. in person, hoping to at the very least fill out a hard-copy application to be put on file for the future. But it's always the same story: They only take applications online, and they only take them for open jobs; they don't keep applications or resumes on file.

Pretty depressing. And of course, multiply my own personal situation by the same thing other over-50 people are going through, and this country is headed for a disaster. It's going to have a huge population of elderly who are going to outlive the previous generation, probably by at least 10 years, likely more, and that population is going to be jobless, with little to no social security income (which is based on what your last few earning years were like, and look at us MTs with our lousy 3 cpl incomes... we're screwed!), and no healthcare. I supposed there may be an upside to the impending "elderly overflow crisis"... maybe they'll finally legalize euthanasia.

I'm a young 'un too...how I look... - wheres_my_job

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I myself personally don't think I look all that young (I'm 50+), but I don't have much grey yet either...and people tell me I look young for my age...so I'm certainly not elderly either...but I've got that five-zero-plus (let's be vague to protect my privacy, ok?) - I'm in the same pitiful/terrifying boat myself. Frick! How did I get here??????? Scary as hell......How did WE get here? I think the "Gray Panthers" movement is about to have a great big awakening...I'll be on the bus to DC for the Million Plus Fifty March, as soon as there is one!

Cripes...frick...I just take it a day at a time...but FRICK. FRICK. *I feel your pain and fear* it just brings out the sarcasm in me. What else can you do...but get on the bus to DC!!!!!!!

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