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So, basically I was sitting in the lunch line and one of my professors snuck up on me and was like, "Hey! I gotta talk to you later about this excellently awesome job opportunity!" I was pretty excited and was like, "Woo! Ok!" and probably gave him a double thumbs-up because I'm cool like that. Or maybe I gave him the double-guns and was like, "'Eyyyy!" But, whatever, that isn't important.

Later I was still excited so I mentioned it to some people and they seemed to know what I was talking about, so I pressed the point until they caved and spoiled it for me. Basically, it's a consulting job with a great company that treats their employees really well, has good benefits and would start me at 40k/year. Catch? Hmm, maybe that would be that the job is pretty much on the opposite end of the continental US that I want to be on. No, not LA, which a friend of mine thought, but Seattle, Washington.

At first I was really excited until I heard the location, and now I'm just really, really kinda depressed because people seem to be pushing this on me (btw, I still haven't actually talked to the professor about it yet, so I may be bleh for nothing, but I'm cool like that), and all I really want right now is to get a job around home so I can get on my feet and established. Hell, I have a lot of really good friends at home and I miss them after being gone for so long too.

So, now I really don't know what I should do. I don't even have my resume out at other job sites around home (and I've found a few) so it kinda feels like this is going to be pushed on me before I even get a chance. What with all the 'excellent opportunity' and 'you should really do it' phrases being directed at me already.

And that's my purpose for making a job thread, but I'm sure people will have other job-related bitchings and problems to make this one a weiner.

I wish you much luck with that!

Well, can't you take it multiple times like the SAT's?

yeah i can but deadlines are coming up @_@ i didnt realize graduate school applications had to be in so early >,< but i have 5 places i applied to and sent out my transcripts today. i have 3 teachers in mind who i want to ask to do references for me and i'm going to do that tomorrow and friday if i cant hunt the teachers i need. then i take my gre next week and send out those scores >,< i think i'll be done @_@ well sending out crap. i'll just then have to hope that one of those 5 schools will want me. otherwise i'm not sure what i'll do.

my plan is to graduate with my ba in deaf education then get a job teaching as an itinerant teacher then go back for a masters but i haven't decided in what i may end up doing a couple because of the stuff i'm interested in... ><

cool state jobs sometimes have good benfits even though you'll be in ny sad

exactly!

and yay!