There are 81 psych jobs on the Psych Xchange email today. Sounds good, yes?
How many in Sydney? 19. Hm.
How many in the ACT?
None. Count 'em on your (clenched) fist. None.
Some days I seriously feel as though I'm living in a shit-hole pretending to be some sort of fucking capital city. What a joke.
I've got the unemployment blues.
Well, sort of. I'm a bit despondent about it all, having only had one interview since I started applying for work at the beginning of this year. I'm putting in applications for all sorts of stuff, but I'm not getting a whole lot in return. I'm thinking outside the box - I don't NEED that internship right now... but what I do need is maybe a foot in the door, so positions such as research assistant in mental health, yep, I'm there.
But I hear nothing back, and the interview that I attended well over a week ago bore no fruit. I can't help but lament the higher number of jobs being advertised in Sydney - 25 versus 8 on Psychxchange, a whopping 122 versus 12 on seek.com.au. *sigh* And of course they all want experience, or to have completed masters. I'm wondering if choosing the internship option has been a mistake. I'm only going through what most new graduates go through, I suppose. I'm not as despondent as this sounds, but some days it's just... difficult.
So... it's chin up and I'm thinking that in lieu of looking for temp work, which I hate, I'm just going to have to step up my little cottage industry wool-dyeing projects. I've dyed 3kg of wool in the past 2 days, and I've listed the first little batch on my sales site, http://monnsqueak.typepad.com/colour_revolution/ - so you can go over and have a squizzy. Keep your eye on it, I'll have a whole lot more up tomorrow. Keepin' busy!
