The No-Job Blues.

Feel free to skip this post as it will be filled with my frustrations and complaints about the process of finding a job.

First. If you are a hospital - or better yet, a company that runs a bunch of hospitals - with a website that allows people to apply for jobs online, please pay attention. When you fill a job position, take the job off of your website. Do not leave it up as if it were open, because it will irritate anyone who fills out an application and immediately receives an email saying you're not looking for new employees in this section. It also makes your hospital/company look like it is being run by a gaggle of geese.

Second. How the hell am I supposed to have a year of experience in an entry level job? Do you mean comparable experience or actual job experience? Details would be nice. Once again, your hospital looks stupid for not clarifying this. 

Third. Do not list the same job twice. I'm not talking about day shift vs. night shift. I'm talking about the same freaking job for the same freaking hours that once someone applies to the first listing, is unable to apply for the second listing because you've already applied to the position. I have serious doubts about any humans running your hospital's website because if there were, and this is a huge if, I'm sure one of them would have fixed your problems by now.

Lastly, I am sick and tired of reading through a job listing, thinking I would be competent and perhaps even good at the job, and then finding out you need a two-year or less certification to get this job. No education required. I could have gotten certified right out of high school. Yes, I know that there is no opportunity to rise through the ranks if you've only got a certification/license. Yes, I know that this means these are essentially dead-end jobs. But freaking a I spent four years of my life working towards a degree and doing something useful with it, and now you're telling me I can't find an entry level job anywhere around here? That is just wrong.

I'm nervous about applying for jobs that don't require a degree or certification or anything with higher learning in the definition. While I would have fun being a receptionist or an administrative assistant or a front office type, I am worried that if I start that position and another one comes along that is more in my field of study, I won't be able to get out of the desk job. I have no idea how those things work. It would be added pressure if I applied to a receptionist job at a hospital and received a job offer for somewhere else in the building. Would it look like I just want money? Or would it look like I want to use my degree? I'm hesitant to start applying for these desk jobs, but I'm at the point where I've nearly exhausted all of my medical options. I'm down to going through Google results to find a healthcare facility that has 50 people max on staff and hoping that they need to hire someone like me.

H. says that it'll happen one day, that you just have to throw everything at the wall and see what sticks. I might be out of things to throw, and that thought worries me. I just hope something works before I feel like I'm leaching off of H. and his good job. I want to be able to contribute to what we have, and I'd like to do it sooner rather than later.

That's enough ranting for now. On a much lighter note, I asked H. if he could be any fish, what fish would he be? This stems from Susan's post on FB the other day. He said:

"Mimic octopus."
"Nu-uh, that's not a fish."
"Uh, yeah it is."
"No way! There's no way that's a fish."
[I hop on to ask great, old Uncle Google, who directs me to Wiki.]
"Um ... it says it's a cephalopod."
"..."
"Hey, wanna know what I'd be? I'd be an Orange Roughy."
"..."
"Because it sounds like a pirate and looks mean, but I'd be the exception and be super nice."
"That is so weird."
"At least I picked a fish!"