Wanted......

someone with a 4 year College degree, a 2 years Masters degree and 5 years experience.
You will be doing the following, answering phones, filing papers and all the other shit no-one else wants to do.
We will pay you $2.50 a hour.
Apply with your resume, a 4 page page covering letter explaining why you are a good fit for this role and 4 letters of recommendation.

WTF!!!

Getting a job here has proved to be so hard. I have applied for so many jobs and gotten very little response. It seems for anything to do with teaching, even as a teaching aide position, my British qualifications are just not enough.  Depressing :(

Still, after a month of searching I have managed to bag myself, 2, very part time jobs.  One is with a company called Young Rembrandts.  Basically it's an after school drawing class that I have to teach.  I have two classes to run, one on a Monday and one on a  Thursday. One is so late on in the day that Ste has to come and pick the kids up from school with is not ideal but the other one is just before they get out so much better.  So far I've observed 1 class and taught 0!!  So it's very early days but I think it will be good when it gets going.  The other job is for a company called Envoy and my title is personal grocery shopper!!!  Basically I go and shop for other people and deliver it to them - kind of like Tesco delivery!  Not exactly dream job material but its easy, its pays and its very flexible.  So after online training and doing a pretend shop (I had to take pictures of the food in the supermarket - very difficult not to look like a weirdo) I am a fully qualified Envoy.  Am now just waiting for my first client.

So while it's been very slim pickings and things are still pretty quiet at the moment I'm moving on to bigger and better things!! Maybe :)