Dillon
Well-Known Member
It’s been a while since I’ve been on here but I had posted a few months ago how I had gotten my first job working at the dining hall at my University. Well that did not last long as I only worked for a week and decided to quit. I don’t want to get into too much detail as to why just basically the place was unorganized and poorly mismanaged I couldn’t bear myself any longer to work there. It has changed quite a bit once I told the manager what had real went on.
That job was not that compatible with me it seemed like so I tried applying for another on campus job for this school semester, working at the library. I wanted something to do on the weekend since I live on campus with no car and no way to get off an isolated island. Luckily this is my last semester living on campus as I will be living somewhere on the coast of Texas.
Anyway back to the original topic; I applied for a position back during Thanksgiving break and I was suppose to hear back by January if I had gotten a position or not. I contacted the the manager last week what the status of my application was and I never heard anything not even about an interview.
Today, I find out they had already hired some students for this semester and they got notified and when I found that out I was really upset. There was a ceremony today to those hired students and I was not one of them. I would have been ok if I had been told that I had not gotten the job instead of blowing me off when others were notified whether they got the job or not.
I had questioned myself later on wondering what did I do wrong? Did I come off as rude or was I even too qualified for the job? It could be any number of things.
I come to realize a positive in this though and that’s where the “but” comes in from my title.
I’m still involved in shark research at my University and I am the only Undergraduate student doing this along with other graduate students. Quite a bit of people I know have been trying to get into this research lab position but they get turned away but I was accepted and got in, working underneath a professor’s PH.D student tagging bull sharks the changes of their movements and behavior.
For something like that to happen is a big accomplishment for me cause that’s something I'm ultimately pursuing wanting to know more about the environmental impacts of sharks movements and behaviors. Some people are meant for greater and different things and I’m bound to sustain a life long career within my field of study.
That job was not that compatible with me it seemed like so I tried applying for another on campus job for this school semester, working at the library. I wanted something to do on the weekend since I live on campus with no car and no way to get off an isolated island. Luckily this is my last semester living on campus as I will be living somewhere on the coast of Texas.
Anyway back to the original topic; I applied for a position back during Thanksgiving break and I was suppose to hear back by January if I had gotten a position or not. I contacted the the manager last week what the status of my application was and I never heard anything not even about an interview.
Today, I find out they had already hired some students for this semester and they got notified and when I found that out I was really upset. There was a ceremony today to those hired students and I was not one of them. I would have been ok if I had been told that I had not gotten the job instead of blowing me off when others were notified whether they got the job or not.
I had questioned myself later on wondering what did I do wrong? Did I come off as rude or was I even too qualified for the job? It could be any number of things.
I come to realize a positive in this though and that’s where the “but” comes in from my title.
I’m still involved in shark research at my University and I am the only Undergraduate student doing this along with other graduate students. Quite a bit of people I know have been trying to get into this research lab position but they get turned away but I was accepted and got in, working underneath a professor’s PH.D student tagging bull sharks the changes of their movements and behavior.
For something like that to happen is a big accomplishment for me cause that’s something I'm ultimately pursuing wanting to know more about the environmental impacts of sharks movements and behaviors. Some people are meant for greater and different things and I’m bound to sustain a life long career within my field of study.
