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Nov. 9th, 2013 04:46 pmWell, drat.
As some of you know, a couple of months ago I applied for a job writing abstracts of articles for EBSCO, which maintains one of the main databases of electronic journals and the like. I've done this several times in the past without results; this time, I actually got an interview. And it actually went reasonably well.
Then I heard nothing from them for two months.
Given this (and the fact that I needed to, y'know, tell MECA whether I was going to be around next semester),* I called the person who interviewed me at EBSCO t'other day. And it appears that EBSCO's higher-ups may, in fact, be *pulling* the position. It's not absolutely certain, of course; but definitely means back to the drawing board for me.
(This does explain a few things, of course: not only the fact that she never got back to me, and the disjunct between what seemed like a perfectly nice supervisor (and team) and a company that is notably bad at telling you in a timely fashion whether you've actually been hired or not...)
sigh, fml, apply for editing jobs...
* Or at any rate I thought I did. A frantic phone call to my department head revealed that when I told him I wouldn't be teaching here next year, he interpreted that to mean "next academic year", whereas I, not being willing to commit when I might be moving to Massachusetts on two weeks' notice, had meant "next calendar year". So on the plus side, I have at least a part-time job in the New Year. On the minus side, it's a job teaching a course I don't like much, and that I need to tear the stuffing out of and redesign so it sucks less.
Well, and of course it pays fairly badly.
As some of you know, a couple of months ago I applied for a job writing abstracts of articles for EBSCO, which maintains one of the main databases of electronic journals and the like. I've done this several times in the past without results; this time, I actually got an interview. And it actually went reasonably well.
Then I heard nothing from them for two months.
Given this (and the fact that I needed to, y'know, tell MECA whether I was going to be around next semester),* I called the person who interviewed me at EBSCO t'other day. And it appears that EBSCO's higher-ups may, in fact, be *pulling* the position. It's not absolutely certain, of course; but definitely means back to the drawing board for me.
(This does explain a few things, of course: not only the fact that she never got back to me, and the disjunct between what seemed like a perfectly nice supervisor (and team) and a company that is notably bad at telling you in a timely fashion whether you've actually been hired or not...)
sigh, fml, apply for editing jobs...
* Or at any rate I thought I did. A frantic phone call to my department head revealed that when I told him I wouldn't be teaching here next year, he interpreted that to mean "next academic year", whereas I, not being willing to commit when I might be moving to Massachusetts on two weeks' notice, had meant "next calendar year". So on the plus side, I have at least a part-time job in the New Year. On the minus side, it's a job teaching a course I don't like much, and that I need to tear the stuffing out of and redesign so it sucks less.
Well, and of course it pays fairly badly.
