{"id":6276,"date":"2011-10-17T14:23:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T20:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=6276"},"modified":"2011-10-17T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T21:58:04","slug":"let-the-job-hunt-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/let-the-job-hunt-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Let the job hunt begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4163\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4163\" title=\"Job-Hunting-on-Social-Network-Sites\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Job-Hunting-on-Social-Network-Sites-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Job-Hunting-on-Social-Network-Sites-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Job-Hunting-on-Social-Network-Sites-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Job-Hunting-on-Social-Network-Sites.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pull!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All right, I just updated my resume to account for the last year or so, and I&#8217;m ready to start looking aggressively for work.\u00a0 Given the state of the economy, I&#8217;m not optimistic that it will lead anywhere, but hey might as well give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>The ideal job would be something part time that allows me to write on the side while teaching me useful skills like book selling or copywriting.\u00a0 Oh, and it wouldn&#8217;t hurt to have interesting coworkers (especially female coworkers) and a fun work environment, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to be honest, though; there aren&#8217;t very many jobs here in Utah Valley that are awesome enough to keep me here.\u00a0 In September, I finally got my TEFL certification, which means that I could probably land a decent job teaching English abroad if I were to look for one.\u00a0 In fact, if I showed up in Cairo or Amman with $500 USD in my pocket, I&#8217;ll bet I could establish myself.<\/p>\n<p>So while there are a few jobs here in Utah that would make me decide to stay, if I can&#8217;t find anything satisfactory in the next few weeks, I&#8217;m probably going to go with teaching English abroad.\u00a0 My friends who have done it say that it gives you tons of free time to write, though generally more if you have a private apartment than if you&#8217;re living in a homestay.\u00a0 Even so, I think I&#8217;ll try out the <a href=\"http:\/\/tlg.gov.ge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teach and Learn with Georgia<\/a> program first for a few months, just to test the waters and see if this is something I actually want to do for a career.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the tentative plan anyways.\u00a0 Things that could derail it include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finding an awesome job here in Utah.<\/li>\n<li>Getting signed with my band.<\/li>\n<li>Selling a bazillion ebooks.<\/li>\n<li>Falling in love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But either way, something&#8217;s gotta change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, I just updated my resume to account for the last year or so, and I&#8217;m ready to start looking aggressively for work.\u00a0 Given the state of the economy, I&#8217;m not optimistic that it will lead anywhere, but hey might as well give it a shot. The ideal job would be something part time&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/let-the-job-hunt-begin\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let the job hunt begin!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,231,30,495,625,189,312],"class_list":["post-6276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-frustrations","tag-hope","tag-life-decisions","tag-teaching-english-abroad","tag-the-economy","tag-utah","tag-work","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-1De","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6276"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6291,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6276\/revisions\/6291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}