Today is one of those days where I am feeling absolutely worthless. I find all kinds of jobs that I qualify for and am even overexperienced for but no one calls or emails me to offer me an interview. Is there someone out there in California with my name that has a bad reputation? Did something bad about me make it here before I arrived?
The thing is, I have a good work ethic. I go to work every day, no matter how much I don't want to get out of bed. I have gone to work in pain, unable to move my neck (I don't recommend this by the way) and got yelled at by a doctor when I told him I'd be going the rest of the week because the lady who covers me when I am out just had her last day that day.
I help others who are swamped. I filed their paperwork, folded and stuffed their outgoing mail, put in notes for them if necessary, and more. No, I don't have a BS in Administrative Assistant but what AA does? I want to know an Admin or Office Manager or Receptionist (I know damn well you don't need a BS or AS to be a receptionist when you have 7 years experience) that has a degree for that job.
I have web design experience as well. 12 years worth, all self-taught. I'm going to school for a certificate in Web Design. Yes, I admit, I should have gone for the AS recommended by the recruiter but I didn't even know if I wanted to take the certificate courses!
I know that my instructors know more than they are teaching, or I hope they do because if they don't, then there are problems. I hate the fact that I have to go through learning Tables and Frames - which are mostly deprecated - to get to anything good. Well, Flash was fun. I have to keep doing tutorials though in order to remember how to use it, so I guess that class wasn't all that great. I graduate in March and the only new things that I have learned are Flash and .... well I got an A in PHP but the only things I know how to use are the includes, which if I can, may start doing sometime here at Disillusioned.
I created an intranet for my job at the agency after cannibilizing the graphic-based one and grew on it. It wasn't pretty and graphical, it was simple, but it worked. The same menu on every page, no frames, no tables, simple CSS and HTML is all I needed.
I am not an amature when it comes to being a receptionist. I do consider myself an amature when it comes to web design only because I don't know PHP, ASP and other languages used to make the sites fantastic. I would really rather focus on Flash though. I love making stuff with it that actually works. I get quite frustrated when I am working on stuff because I can't get it to do what I want, but when I figure out what I'm doing wrong or decide I have to go another direction, then I get thrilled because it's working.
Any recommendations out there? I'm planning to apply at WM when Christmas is over. I don't want to do it now because I'd probably kill people. I hate people. I can get along with anyone, though. I can grin and bear it. I can pitch in. I can work hard.
