{"id":1551,"date":"2006-10-17T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/17\/jorb-fare\/"},"modified":"2006-10-17T12:47:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T12:47:00","slug":"jorb-fare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/jorb-fare\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorb Fare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Augh well that was quite embarassing. This was my first job fair – the last two big jobs I got by word of mouth and then just Craigslist – so I was entirely under-prepared.
\nI DID bring a whole bunch of resumes, most of which I didn’t end up giving out, but I actually didn’t know that people really dress up all nice-like for stuff like this. Well I mean I couldn’t have done that because I had class right before that but I was pretty out-of-place in my sweat-caked beanie and offensive shirt<\/a>.
\nSo I went up to a few people, explained myself, they sort of grimaced at the mention of “Linguistics major,” but things got a little better after mentioning my Sun and Autodesk internships – but most importantly I did give out my resume<\/a> to a few people. So it wasn’t a total bust.
\nI’m not too worried about my future despite the fact that I’m looking for a job over half a year before I graduate, but this was a good experience so I know more about what to expect. Also I’ll know not to eat directly after going to one of these since I was so agitated that I ordered this massive sandwich from the Stevenson Coffee House and gave myself a stomach ache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Augh well that was quite embarassing. This was my first job fair – the last two big jobs I got by word of mouth and then just Craigslist – so I was entirely under-prepared. I DID bring a whole bunch of resumes, most of which I didn’t end up giving out, but I actually didn’t… Continue reading Jorb Fare<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}