The numbers

Just so you don’t think I’m some kind of lazy, unmotivated whiny couch-potato, take a look at the numbers.

From August 2006 to May 2007:

Jobs applied for: 80

Interviews: 8

Number of 2nd interviews: 3

Full-time jobs offered: 1

Part-time jobs offered: 3

Unpaid internships offered: 1

Freelance jobs offered: 7

Number of the freelance jobs that hired me and then never actually gave me work to do: 4

Please keep in mind that during this time, I was continuously employed, and working around 30 hours per week. These numbers represent the job applications I had time to do outside of my near full-time employment. They were all kinds of stuff, from full-time professional positions (in any number of fields, from the non-profit sector to the corporate world), to freelance and part-time gigs, to temp agencies, to non-paying (or dirt-paying) internships, to skilled labor, to non-skilled labor.

As long as the job seemed vaguely interesting (and sometimes not even that), I would totally go for it.

Like many young people in Philly, I’m getting tired of this shit.