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Originally Posted by Stare At The Sun
Bit of good news...I'm taking a test to be a TSA screener, we'll see how it goes ^_^.
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Oh. My. God.
I was just going to use your thread to rant that TSA took a year to get back to me on the screener test, scheduled me, then promptly cancelled me because my app was a year old.
The government. And they wonder how exploding underpants get on planes.
I've been pretty amazed by the fact I've been turned down for jobs that I am way qualified for. The latest was a management job at a public radio station in a smaller market than I've ever worked in.
Then on the other hand I at least got an interview for a similar job in the largest market in the country. And not even a callback from a tiny station in the hills of Kenfucky.
So I'm working a pastiche of jobs. During the week I knock myself out trying to raise money for an environmental cause. On the weekend I came back to my old employer to do some production work.
This job market sucks. It's far worse than the early 90's recession. At least then I could claim my inexperience was holding me back. Now? Nothing. The job listings in my industry used to run about 100 pages by y2k. Now it is a page. One (1). Chimpy McSmirk fiddled while the economy burned to the ground.