And now what?: Job hunting.... it's getting interesting.

So I've been a bit detracted from my job hunt for a while. I have moved three weeks ago and now live in a nice little house on the other side of campus with three lovely house mates. it's such a relief to live with people who are, what shall I say, sane.

The week after it was time for the Opera Soc performances of Don Giovanni. So basically I spend that whole week practically living in the Riley Smith Theatre. since we did not have that much stage time, we had extra changing room banter! We played poker, the chocolate game, painted each other's faces and had lots of food (which you are not supposed to eat in there). It was all very amazing and good fun. But the very best day was the last performance night, which happened to be on my birthday. During the warm-up before the show I got the most amazing version of Happy Birthday sung by the entire cast. During the after party, someone got me a cake and saw this as a reason to sing me Happy Birthday again. But this time the crew, orchestra and +1's joined in. It must have been about 60 or 70 people singing for me. I can tell you that that is pretty damn amazing. I also won the award for Best Demon that evening. Yeah!

So well, after having way too much fun, I am on to the job seeking again. And boy, it can be so awkward. First of all, why do companies tell you (in all those brochures about job hunting) to spend at least 2 or 3 hours on your application, just to not even spend 2 or 3 minutes on writing you back some feedback (or even writing you back at all)? That does not seem quite right to me. And then, on to the weirdos. I responded on a vacancy for nanny which I found on my university website. I wrote a whole letter about how much I love kids and what a child-friendly person I am. The only answer I get back is: "Thanks for your email. What range of cooking do you enjoy?" So now there was suddenly some cooking involved in this babysitting job. But desperate as I am, I wrote back a list of all the wonderful dishes I learned to make at my Jamie Oliver course. I got back another email asking if I can cook North-African, French and Middle Eastern food. Well, no I can't. So now my cooking skills are not varied enough to do a low paid nanny/cook job? Great!
And then another application. Flyering for a comedy night in a pub. Even though every moron can do it, I again wrote a nice cover letter about all my marketing and flyer experience. The answer: "Hi Sabine are you a SIMS player thanks Kat". First off all. Where is the interpunction in this email? Second off all, what is SIMS? The only sims I know is a computer game with digital people who's life you can run. I'm not sure if I see the connection between that and handing out flyers (unless those digital people will hand out the flyers for me). Awkward!

Despite all of this, I will still have to keep sending letters and CV's. Definitely a FML moment. But at least I have zumba and Opera Soc to keep me sane.

XOXO