#overqualified even

[afangirlsmanicextraveganza]

Saw Näcken’s interpretation for Bramble and I had to pull out my license 😏…

[ryllen]

" no one will know ~~ ♥♥♥ "

- more like me thinking of Trey going ham if Jade is in a pinch

[aashiqeddiediaz]

the 2024 presidential election is literally proof about how much more women of color have to work to prove themselves as worthy candidates and how usually? that's not even enough.

kamala is overqualified for the position. she has served in all three levels of law in america, has had an extensive career in politics and she lost out to a wannabe celebrity reality tv show rodeo clown abuser of a man who left our country in shambles at the end of his first term.

and you can bitch and moan all you want about her and all the reasons she may have lost, but in a lil more than 100 days, harris-walz put together a campaign that was razor-thin and competitive all the way through, outperforming biden in a lot of ways. she worked more than overtime and i don't even think she sat down for the whole duration, and despite how you feel about her, that is still 1048131980% more effort than trump put in for his own campaign. trump who spent a good amount of time attacking her personally.

and she still lost. so i dont know about y'all but i feel like this is a good time to take a closer look at the other women of color in your life and appreciate how hard they work because most of the time, it's futile and goes so incredibly unnoticed, but we do it anyway.

[watermotif]

do we think i'll get a real job someday or am i gonna be stuck with internships forever

[deadrlngers]

me showing up for this interview i'm waiting to do

[dashiellqvverty]

town i recently moved to has a library job opening (says its full time but theyre only open like 30 hours a week so im not sure what the work hours are..... still would be more than i get now) and like i could literally WALK to this job and its a better library than the one im at (more resources, cooler programs and stuff, an actual children's room in an actually accessible building) BUT the role would be a step down from what im doing now, like right now im pretty involved, i do storytimes and im gonna be running some programs during summer reading and i make lots of flyers and have input in the materials we purchase........ and i love being able to do all that and even if i couldnt do ALL of it i'd at least want to move to a job where i work with kids and/or have the opportunity to be involved in programming (like... doing a pokemon or dnd or writing group or something). this one has "some children's room circulation shifts" and idk im just... i have so many frustrations with this job (not enough hours, can't stand how my boss runs the place) but i wouldnt want to leave if it didn't feel like the Right Job bc there's so much i love

[floraleevee]

Howwww do so many shitty men convince amazing women to stay with them??

[didnt-hear-cold-as-you-live]

Like zoom out and it’s actually fucking PSYCHO, I am better at anyone in the universe at keeping a smile on my face when shits fucked up and just powering through it being “resilient” etc etc etc but like. JESUS dude. Give me a fucking break. It’s just been comedically bad thing after comedically bad thing and it’s RELENTLESS; I feel like I’m being fucking emotionally water boarded and it’s never going to end

[harpylady]

FUCK the job search Jesus

[erzsebetrosztoczy]

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[pinktinselmonstrosity]

4:35 on Friday 20th September and still no email......... is it bad news do we think

[steviescrystals]

i seriously need to get a new job and start making money again asap bc i cannot keep living at home much longer it’s driving me insane

(wrote an entire essay in the tags without meaning to oops)

[iamfuckingsorry]

this thesis is gonna fucking kill me, this is fucking comparable to sitting through pchem and fluid mechanics back when in my second year of undergrad.

(pchem lectures mostly consisted of me quietly crying in lecture halls and thinking "fuck this shit i'd rather be unemployed and homeless than work with this shit i'd legit rather be unemployed" on repeat for 2 hours at a time. fluid mechanics wasn't difficult in hindsight and both the lecturer and the TAs were fucking amazing but it took me three semesters to finish that course, there was just something about it that prevented my brain from getting any work done /at all/, only in that one course)

my brain is significantly less efficient at getting anything done than it was back then, too. like i know there's a simple solution to this R problem i've been trying to solve for the past 3 days, i've found a couple of stackoverflow pages that look very close to what i'm looking for, but somehow my brain refuses to look at the code and actually /process/ what it's looking at so that i can copy it and change two lines and have my problem solved

...sigh.

/rant

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I'm so burnt out and stressed about a variety of things lately, but a funny / sweet coincidence recently happened that I wanted to share:

Last week, I had a university student reach out to me (via my work email) asking for resources / advice on their research paper because I've written a lot of articles about the thing they're writing about. (I just got back to them today and they were real sweet, I'm excited to see how their paper turns out)

A week or two ago, I had someone reach out to me on RA asking for some specific clip info / date info because they were doing a research paper about Pac, and today I saw that they published their paper and put a special thanks to RA in the notes :')

I just think it's very sweet and a funny coincidence that my work (professional and fandom work) is getting cited in research papers. It made me smile a lot, I genuinely love that.

[ontargetmadders]

Just spent the the last half an hour updating my CV. That's some progress at least lol. If anything it's shown me that I have I have a lot more pedigree than I did 3 years ago. And hopefully that'll help me to get even better job that more qualified for this time

[kraniumet]

my soul and heart have not been hurting enough recently. maybe I'll reread swordspoint