I feel I owe an update to the dozens of spambots and the zero real, actual people who read this blog.
There has been news. Kind of a lot of news, actually. The problem is, I've been busy. And when I'm not busy, my depression demands that I do nothing but sit here in my sweatpants playing Skyrim for 12 hours straight.
But enough about my crippling mental disorders, here's the news. In the past 2 months I have had two interviews for full time jobs. To put that in context, the last full time job I was interviewed for (not counting This catastrophe, which I don't and neither should you) was about 4.5 years ago. So I went from nothing year after year after year, to two interviews for full time positions in two months.
I got my MLIS in 2008. It is now 2013. That's 5 years and change. That was how long it took for me to turn a corner where my experience is now enough to get me looked at. As you may recall, my experience all this time has been adjunct info lit instruction, so maybe it's not as bad if you're the lucky kind of son or daughter of a bitch who can somehow land a part time job that's actually in a library. I don't know how such a thing as possible, but eh, people get lucky. Maybe you did fieldwork where there just happened to be an opening. Good for you. You son or daughter of a bitch. Anyway, if you're one of those people then I guess you probably didn't have as long of a wait. If you're like me and your only job has been teaching info lit as an adjunct (I know I'm not the only one!), the the magic number you're looking for is 5. Five years and just maybe your resume will start getting looked at (albeit, only for jobs with a heavy instruction component).
And if you didn't hit the jackpot and stumble ass-first into a part time position right out of library school, AND if you didn't make the connections to get a teaching gig at the very least (in which case you must think me the son or daughter of a bitch), then haha, wow, I have no idea what it's going to be for you.
I may be jumping the gun, though. I'm aware that two interviews doesn't prove a pattern. It could very well be that getting two interviews was luck, and the fact they were 2 months from each other is coincidence, and now I'll be back to another 5 year dry spell. Could be, but honestly I don't think so. It's kind of hard to admit, but I actually have a good feeling about this.
I got rejected from that first job, by the way. The other one... well, we'll wait and see.
