Irritating noises

The fount of college teaching jobs for this year has pretty well dried up – as it should, since most colleges will begin instruction in two, three, or four weeks.

I continue to apply for some full-time jobs that trickle out. (I can’t move my family across the continent to take up a part-time post.)

I’ve tried advertising myself as a hybrid laborer who could do some full-time combination of clerical work and adjunct teaching. No dice. Colleges want specialists, and they don’t want to pay benefits.

I’ve also been applying for college advising jobs and jobs with the public library. I’m having trouble imagining how to go about finding any other sort of job, except the kind you do in a grocery store.

(But wouldn’t a job like that also be part-time, and, therefore, inadequate?)

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Half Price Books is opening a store in Mishawaka. I love Half Price Books.

I think I’d be delighted to work there, even on a half-week schedule.

Unfortunately, the store won’t open until after my son is due to be born, by which time I’ll need to be collecting paychecks.

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I was about to post another YouTube video of a techno song – there was almost no time left to write today’s entry – but I dug deep and found things to complain about.

Here is the song, nonetheless.