So, I’m now
basically waiting to “possibly” be hearing more on three job possibilities
sometime soon. “Possibly” is the key
word there as I’ve been here before – been a consistent state of my life for
well over an entire year to be more precise.
Two of my
current possibilities are through a couple recruiters; one of which I was able
to obtain an interview with the client directly – had the interview exactly one
week ago today. I have since heard
through correspondence with my recruiter that I was actually one of five that was
deemed worthy of an interview and was told, during said interview, that the
company was in the process of “staffing up.”
I took this, at the time, to mean that they would possibly be hiring
more than one engineer which I was actually glad to hear and was hoping to be
one of the hires. (Granted, the job’s
actually a one-year contract to start, but I can do one year and deal with what
comes afterword when it arrives…) I
heard from my recruiter now that they have “passed” on three of the
interviewees, “hired” one and are currently “still deliberating” about me. It seems they are trying to figure how I
would fit in on the current planned projects.
Is that good or bad? I don’t
know. Hopefully I’ll hear something soon…
The other
recruiter-based possibility is for a company that I had been attempting to land
a job with through other connections in the past. It is, however, a job that is directly
related to the military defense industry and might even require obtaining some
sort of security clearance. This time,
however, the recruiter that I am using is working with a company that
specializes in placing professionals in military related industries. Will this help? I don’t know … but the recruiter seems to be
quite professional and has been sending consistent weekly updates since initially
contacting me mid-December of last year.
It does seem like he’s trying…
The third opportunity
that I am considering “active” is with this smaller, third-party, design
services company – sounds much like a company I used to work for some 20 years
ago. This, actually, is the one I have
the most hope for as it seems to be a place that I would be able to quickly get
in-step with as far as work goes. Had an
initial phone screening – described to me as a “technical discussion” – with an
engineer a couple weeks ago that seemed to go rather well. Sent an email to the HR representative that I
was initially corresponding with about a week ago and was told to “hang tight”
along with an apology for not getting back with me earlier. The “door is not closed” although the process
has been paused due to other issues currently being dealt with. What are these other issues? Will they remember me when the “other issues”
have been dealt with? Will I even hear
anything more from these guys? I have no
idea…
You see,
that’s just the way it is these days. Those
are just the three opportunities that I am currently considering “active.” I’ve got somewhere around 250 other positions
that I have applied for at somewhere around 140 other companies throughout this
last year and have absolutely no idea where I stand on many of those. I sometimes receive rejection emails, more
rarely have some sort of phone interview that goes nowhere and quite often get
phone calls and emails from recruiters (almost always from recruiters of Indian
decent) for positions that I have already applied for. It’s a bit maddening. As a side note here, those recruiters are
always a waste of time … seems to be a new cottage industry created in order to
find Indian engineers sponsorship opportunities for H3 or H1b visas. They’re obviously driven by nothing more than
volume. I wouldn’t be the least bit
surprised to learn that they actually have quotas that need to be met.
The
recruiters that I am working with for the couple active possibilities I wrote
of above are, interestingly enough, not of the shotgun-approach, visa-seeking
variety. They are both much more
professional recruiters working with what at least appear to be solid, well-established
job placement corporations for professionals.
I’m hoping that not being immediately asked to fill out an obviously
standardized questionnaire asking what my “hourly rate,” “date-of-birth,” and “current
visa status” is might be a good thing.
You see, that’s what you always get from the Indian recruiters. They’ll even go as far as asking for your
social security number on some occasions – for reasons that they never are able
to explain. It’s all bullshit… I’m hoping that using actual recruiting
professionals might have better results.
Of course,
if I do land a job soon, all that’s going to do is kick off a process that I’m
beginning to wonder whether I’ll be able to successfully accomplish. I’m going to have to move. Now don’t get me wrong here, I want to move –
oh yes, I most definitely want to get myself an apartment somewhere and finally
complete this goddamn move that I started almost a year ago – but I seem to
have lost the ambition required to do anything that has even a hint of challenge
to it. When I was younger, I never
questioned anything. For quite a few
years I moved almost annually to new locations.
Hell, since graduating college I’ve moved to somewhere around 20
different addresses in five different states and even lived temporarily in yet
one more state and another country. This
used to be easy for me. Now, however,
the thought of all the things I would need to do keeps me up at night. It just seems like it’s almost undoable.
Oh well, if
you’ve been reading my blog, you are well aware that I am the only person to
blame for what my life has become. I
suppose I’m going to need to “man up” at some time and fix this fucking
mess. I sure hope landing a job will
give me some direction – assuming I can ever pull that off. I suppose all I can do is keep trying. It’s getting to the point where that’s
becoming difficult – this “breathing” thing that I’m continuing to do seems a
bit pointless…
bis später,
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