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Auburn Annie · 02-10-2005, 09:58 AM

AND the saga continues [cue up "Another One Bites the Dust"]

This job was a part-time research aide in the county historian's office (genealogy, records searching etc.) It was only 16.5 hours a week, though the pay was a little over $10/hour - no vacation, no benefits. Still, it would have given me walking around money, stanched the outflow from my savings and been a current position on my resume.

I interviewed yesterday, with the county historian, one other employee in the office, the director of real property (the department falls under the county clerk) and one other - a tax map tech who scans documents into the county websites, I think. *I* thought it went well; they were looking for someone with library skills to catalog the collection, somebody familiar with genealogy (even though they have a genealogist on staff) etc.

The one good thing was she DID say she'd let all the candidates know their decision in a vey short time. I interviewed at 9 am and got the call at 6 pm. At least I wasn't kept hanging, but I was hoping for "yes", not "we've hired another candidate but we did enjoy speaking with you." Grrrrr.

This is getting discouraging, folks. Now I've got to go out and shovel the blankety blank driveway for the third time.

02-10-2005, 09:58 AM	#79
Auburn Annie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 3,101	AND the saga continues [cue up "Another One Bites the Dust"] This job was a part-time research aide in the county historian's office (genealogy, records searching etc.) It was only 16.5 hours a week, though the pay was a little over $10/hour - no vacation, no benefits. Still, it would have given me walking around money, stanched the outflow from my savings and been a current position on my resume. I interviewed yesterday, with the county historian, one other employee in the office, the director of real property (the department falls under the county clerk) and one other - a tax map tech who scans documents into the county websites, I think. I thought it went well; they were looking for someone with library skills to catalog the collection, somebody familiar with genealogy (even though they have a genealogist on staff) etc. The one good thing was she DID say she'd let all the candidates know their decision in a vey short time. I interviewed at 9 am and got the call at 6 pm. At least I wasn't kept hanging, but I was hoping for "yes", not "we've hired another candidate but we did enjoy speaking with you." Grrrrr. This is getting discouraging, folks. Now I've got to go out and shovel the blankety blank driveway for the third time.