Estoy Cansada
You know what's hard? Blogging when you're working full time and in the process of moving. Yessiree Bob.
Since I'm sure you're all dying to know what I'm doing, I'll give you a weensy little update.
I have still, STILL, not heard anything back from those putzes at DHS. I'm sure the people doing the hiring are just as thrilled with their crappy HR department as I am, considering they told me in the interview how desperate they were to get someone in and working asap. They can certainly go ahead and shove their crappy job, but how am I supposed to convey that to them when they won't get back to me by any perceptible means of communication? (I haven't ruled out that they may be attempting to communicate with me telepathically, or possibly via resonating crystals, since they are based out of California and all.)
One of my career services ladies actually talked about me to some partner looking to hire a tax associate. He wants me to call him, apparently. I thought I would forward my resume first, so I did that today, and I guess I'll be calling him on Wednesday so he has a chance to get it and all. This would be exciting, except that it would be a hellish hour and half commute each way to the middle of nowhere, where they're festively located. I don't really even want to go out there for an interview, since it would most likely end up being a huge waste of my time anyway and I'd have to miss work to do it. Also I have the feeling that they'd be offering me absolutely nothing in the way of money, since it's a three person firm. So I'm dreading calling, because I don't want to go way the hell out there for nothing and I've got to find some way to ask about the salary without actually asking because we're supposed to pretend like we're looking for jobs for purely altruistic reasons until we have an offer. But there's no way in hell I'm taking half a day off from work and driving halfway to Canada for less than a decent chance at $48k. That's my minimum number to deal with the Commute From Hell, I've decided. Any tactfully worded suggestions for how to approach this would be appreciated.
I guess I've decided what I really want to do is stay at the IRS, but try to get into a better position. There's a lot of stuff about it that I like a lot, like all the benefits, and the people, and the quality of life in general. I've got to put in a few months doing what I was hired for before I can start applying for internal vacancies, but then I'm going to try to become a Tax Law Specialist which I think would be a better use of my stupid worthless law degree.
In other news, we partially moved into our house two weeks ago this Wednesday. We're living in the (finished) attic, and the kitchen and bathroom are done enough to deal with for now. It's sooooo much quieter and warmer than the apartment. Plus I can get to work in just 20 minutes instead of 45, if I go 85 the whole way, which I do so enjoy. Our blinds came in this afternoon, which is very exciting, because it turns out we have two street lights shining conveniently one through each window that have been tormenting us for the past two weeks. We had this construction paper stuff taped up, but it kept falling off and onto me in the middle of the night, much to my displeasure. So hooray blinds, hooray house, and boooooo hisssss to the street lights.
Since I'm sure you're all dying to know what I'm doing, I'll give you a weensy little update.
I have still, STILL, not heard anything back from those putzes at DHS. I'm sure the people doing the hiring are just as thrilled with their crappy HR department as I am, considering they told me in the interview how desperate they were to get someone in and working asap. They can certainly go ahead and shove their crappy job, but how am I supposed to convey that to them when they won't get back to me by any perceptible means of communication? (I haven't ruled out that they may be attempting to communicate with me telepathically, or possibly via resonating crystals, since they are based out of California and all.)
One of my career services ladies actually talked about me to some partner looking to hire a tax associate. He wants me to call him, apparently. I thought I would forward my resume first, so I did that today, and I guess I'll be calling him on Wednesday so he has a chance to get it and all. This would be exciting, except that it would be a hellish hour and half commute each way to the middle of nowhere, where they're festively located. I don't really even want to go out there for an interview, since it would most likely end up being a huge waste of my time anyway and I'd have to miss work to do it. Also I have the feeling that they'd be offering me absolutely nothing in the way of money, since it's a three person firm. So I'm dreading calling, because I don't want to go way the hell out there for nothing and I've got to find some way to ask about the salary without actually asking because we're supposed to pretend like we're looking for jobs for purely altruistic reasons until we have an offer. But there's no way in hell I'm taking half a day off from work and driving halfway to Canada for less than a decent chance at $48k. That's my minimum number to deal with the Commute From Hell, I've decided. Any tactfully worded suggestions for how to approach this would be appreciated.
I guess I've decided what I really want to do is stay at the IRS, but try to get into a better position. There's a lot of stuff about it that I like a lot, like all the benefits, and the people, and the quality of life in general. I've got to put in a few months doing what I was hired for before I can start applying for internal vacancies, but then I'm going to try to become a Tax Law Specialist which I think would be a better use of my stupid worthless law degree.
In other news, we partially moved into our house two weeks ago this Wednesday. We're living in the (finished) attic, and the kitchen and bathroom are done enough to deal with for now. It's sooooo much quieter and warmer than the apartment. Plus I can get to work in just 20 minutes instead of 45, if I go 85 the whole way, which I do so enjoy. Our blinds came in this afternoon, which is very exciting, because it turns out we have two street lights shining conveniently one through each window that have been tormenting us for the past two weeks. We had this construction paper stuff taped up, but it kept falling off and onto me in the middle of the night, much to my displeasure. So hooray blinds, hooray house, and boooooo hisssss to the street lights.
posted by feithline @ 9:16 PM
6 Comments:
At 11:21 PM,
Sarah said…
Well I work in a 3 person firm, as in 3 attorneys, one of whom is on maternity leave, and I make $44. It's livable after $0 but its no $145 bullshit that the big firms are considering raising to. I would suggest you be slightly forward and ask straight away what salary they are considering. That way you can be honest and not waste their time or yours if it isn't what you need.
At 11:06 AM,
Anonymous said…
I agree with Sarah about asking about the salary right away. No point in wasting anyone's time. My law degree is also stupid and worthless. I wish that I'd never gone to law school.
K
At 5:58 PM,
feithline said…
K - I noticed that a girl at my tax volunteer thing yesterday had a pen from my stupid worthless law school. I ended up talking to her and she's a 1L and all happy and excited about it. I was like gee, that's nice, I graduated and I can't find a job and career services basically told me to f- off, and I wish I'd never gone to law school. And she was looking at me like 'Oh, you poor bitter thing.' I figure she must be on the Law Review track if she's still happy about being in law school, cause I know all my friends turned all suicidal 2nd semester of 1L after grade came out and we realized we'd worked harder than we ever had in our lives for Absolutely Nothing. Ahh...memories...
At 8:19 PM,
Anonymous said…
If she is on the law review track, the only thing I can say is that she too might become bitter when she realizes that the big law firm that pays her her big salary is sucking the freakin' life out of her. My career services office basically did the same thing to me. Which AMAZES me. How can you let someone take out 100+K in loans and then not give a shit about whether they are employed in the field or can even pay back their loans?? I hate them. What's even worse is people outside of the law world can't even fathom this situation. In their minds, lawyer = employed at all times = good salary. Which I guess is what I thought too and what makes it so utterly disappointing. The sad thing is that at this point I would LOVE to get an attorney job that paid even $45-50K. But I am having a hard time even getting one of those! I think I have every right to be bitter and angry. This whole situation is just unbearable.
K
At 6:39 AM,
feithline said…
Yeah I never had anything bad to say about career services while I was still in school, but I've really been shocked by the way they abandon you once you're out the door. One of the women I work with now is an unemployed career counselor (we're pretty much all either retired going back to work, or unemployed something elses) and she said they have some certain time they're supposed to work to get you a job to keep up their statistics, but then when it gets to that certain point they're supposed to just write you off as a loss. Horrifying, non?
At 3:35 PM,
Anonymous said…
Truly horrifying!! I wonder when my cut off date is, or worse, if it's already past. I really want to go up there and bawl my head off in front of them so they at least feel a smidgen of guilt for their misleading advertising--publishing median salary, instead of average salary; publishing employment rates that include people who aren't even employed as attorney's, but are working temp jobs, etc, etc, etc. I don't even understand why schools have career services offices. I think they should get rid of them and then we wouldn't have to pay so much tuition for our stupid worthless degrees.
K
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