New Job. Cool.
Hope it all works out. I've been down that job trail trek a few times in the past. It can get a bit ruff sometimes. I'm still managing to hang on to the one I've got, but that's not always been easy either. And, then theirs the inner drive that makes you want to break away to find something new. But, with things being the way they are, you keep just sucking it up going forward.
I was doing that back in 2003, using the library, and the employment office to look for jobs. I had just got out of college. And, had federal applications submitted left and right, state job applications, private sector job applications, going to interviews, resumes etc. and even using the universities' career job placement center for job openings, trying to get connections etc.
It was a very bad, bad, time for environmental majors, because of the gulf war business. And Cheney and Bush, had cut off funding in DC for environmental things at the federal level ( which trickles down of course ), to divert to the war effort. And, of course Cheney didn't want any environmental interfering with his operations in Wyoming, and elsewhere with the EPA, and everywhere else.
I had 3 done deal environmental jobs blown because of the Bush administration. 1.) A career position with the U.S. Customs Service at the Port of San Francisco, CA that I was hired for on paper, (approved); but Bush's Homeland Security office found a reason to blow it up on me, just like thousands of others ( I wasn't the only one ).
2.) Another, EPA Environmental position, Environmental Scientist, in New York, New York, building right next to where the trade centers fell. It came down to me and 2 other people out of a list of 15 people. They picked a guy, left me and a girl from Montana standing. Then, they called back 2.5 weeks later and said, "He decided to go to Grad School." So, now it's down to you and her. They picked her ( my theory is, she had good looking legs, I had better classes, and credentials than she did !!) Well, then, about 5 days later, an e-mail came out to both us (and anyone else) saying, "We are sorry, due to the decisions in D.C. and due to the Bush Administration, and war etc. The position has been "Closed!: $
3.) The other position was in the state of California. Somewhere around Sacramento and southward ? It would have been BLM type of environmental work. That got pulled about the time the guy said, "I think I want to hire you, I need someone, I can train you, and your degree fits. No sooner than he said, it, they pulled the money on him, "he was furious!-- I was aggravated too."
4.) Ah, New Mexico. Not far from Albuquerque. BLM position. Water and Land resources. Even got a prescreening interview on this, me and another girl. Two openings, so we were not competing against each other. He was getting ready to hire us both, was going to do the final big interview. Even talked to us on the phone.
You guessed it; DC cut the money off.
So, now this is why I work where I do now. Bush, Obama, Trump, soon to be Biden. I'm still here.
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