Tomorrow, between class in the morning and the Write Group in the evening, I’ll attend what the school is calling a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153job fair,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but is supposed to be rather less mechanized and more network-y. We’ll see. Naturally, I need to attend\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI’ll be looking for employment next year. But I have a greater need than that.<\/p>\n
I hate, hate, hate<\/em> selling myself: job interviews, job fairs, networking, cover letters, letters of interest, anything that involves a resume, application, or business cards. Hate it. This was true back when I was a valedictorian going to MIT; it’s harder now that I’m just some guy. Which means I can use the practice, like it or not.<\/p>\n I’m printing my unnervingly thin resume now. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow, between class in the morning and the Write Group in the evening, I’ll attend what the school is calling a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153job fair,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but is supposed to be rather less mechanized and more network-y. We’ll see. Naturally, I need to attend\u00e2\u20ac\u201dI’ll be looking for employment next year. But I have a greater need than that. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}