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The Bottom Line Turning up little hope this year for a job but potential possibilities next year.
It has been quite some time since I last held down a steady paying job – one year and two months to be precise – and this year did not offer me any light of hope of obtaining one as of yet. Before senior year end, I thought it best to fill out a few applications and see what I could find out there for the summer. I applied mainly to Cousin Subs, Hillside Marcus Theatres – the local movie theater that I really wanted to work for because of my deep interest in movies – Blockbuster video, and Quizno Subs. Not a single one of them returned calls and so I went through the summer without a paying position in my life once again. Of course, I being the absent minded person that I am by not thinking ahead of time, I failed to check out the job opportunities that would be available to me on-campus at Marquette University. This meant that by the time I arrived there and started my search for a job, many of the positions I had been interested in had already been filled. Any left were ones that few students around campus actually would consider taking, namely cafeteria duty and sh*t like that. For a time I simply brushed it off, not investing much time or thought into it. Believing that school work would begin to pile up once classes got going, I would have less free time on my hands. See, that the amazing thing about college life – you have more free time then in any other phase of your education life thus far and quite possibly any other time in the rest of your natural born life. Okay, I did manage to find a few paying positions here and there but they did not add up to much really. I was loading dock worker at the campus’ career fair, hanging mainly for a few hours within a two day span and waiting for representatives there to pack up their equipment and go home. Yeah, it was loads of fun, especially when the final check came in the mail for eighteen measly dollars, but those are the breaks. But the New Year brings new opportunities and I believe this one might actually work out. I know this is only my freshmen year of college but I have been looking around for a few internship opportunities that would be available to me. I applied for an internship with the Walt Disney World College Program; something of which I was told was not easy to get into, just for the Hell of it figuring that the universe hates me enough that I would not be accepted. Rethinking this over in my head for the next few days I realized that I would be more screwed over if I was accepted for the internship since I could not accept it – it was for Spring 2005 and since I just started college, this would not be good for my educational career at the time. As fate would have it, I was accepted to the internship and I had to turn it down. A friend of mine from the Marquette University College Republicans use to intern for Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker but he was leaving the position after he had been accepted as an intern for the White House, something else I had given consideration to now that Bush has won re-election. After asking a few questions and him offering up some hearty advice, I decided to send the County Executive’s Office my resume – to be honest, it was not at all that lengthy – and leave it up to fate. A few days later they called me up at home and we set up an appointment the next day for an interview. I was pretty nervous about the whole thing, more so then usual because I was wearing dress shoes and a tie that belonged to my father – they would not know this but I felt a little weird about it. Since it was final weeks and I lived so close to home, I decided to come home that week and go back to campus only when I had exams on a specific day, so how I to figure this was to happen. Anyway, to my delightful surprise, it was not much of an interview at all and they accepted me to the position right off the bat. I had to sign a few things – identification and contact information – but other then that they gave me a quick tour, told me to e-mail them my class schedule in order to set up work hours around it and then that was it. I still have to come in on the 19th of January to fill out some last minute paperwork, set the computer at the work station they have assigned me, etc. but for the most part it is a done deal. I have no idea if I should use this for credit or merely experience – I may or may not receive an internship with the British government when I study abroad in London, England next spring, something of which I will get into later. It is not a paying position as of yet but it could turn out to be one should I work hard enough and decide to continue it once college lefts out at the end of the semester – and if they accept me to a paying position, of course.  |
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