job hunt blahs

[gfish]

After the Amazon failure, I've been getting somewhat depressed about job hunting. No responses since then, and I'm starting to apply to less and less interesting listings. Pretty much given up any hope of finding something relevant to my Master's work. Part of the problem is that I continue to be somewhat ambivalent to continuing programming as a career. It's all I'm really qualified for, though. I keep thinking about education work, since I enjoyed TAing so much. But to get a real job there is pretty much going to require a whole new certification process. Which I'd be up for, but this is not the time.

Mostly I just dream of finding a job that lets me work with my hands, building wonderful things. What a weird idea, being able to look back at the end of the day at tangible results! I guess ideally it would be making props or working in a shop for a research group or something. I'm not without skills along those lines, I'd like to think, but I have absolutely no professional experience. If those jobs even exist around here, I have no idea how to get into them.

So, yeah. Blah.

Comments

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

Two thoughts.

First, what kind of programming do you do? Someone Satyr is working with is looking for a PHP/SQL programmer to do some contract game development.

Second, the guy from XCOR that I introduced you to at Norwescon mentioned that he was very impressed with your metalwork, and that they're probably going to be hiring toward the end of the year.

[gfish.livejournal.com]

PHP/SQL used to be my bread and butter, back before grad school. I'd definitely be interested in contract work doing that again. Not knowing exactly what would be involved, I should add the caveat that I'm not a web designer -- it's better for everyone if I don't design interfaces of any sort. :)