Spent something over half the day filling out a job application: Scottsdale Community College is advertising a one-year-only full-time position in its English, Languages, and Journalism department.
These OYO positions often morph into permanent tenure-track jobs, or so I’m told. One way or the other, I could do with a full-time salary, even if it’s just for a year. Sixty-five or seventy grand would go a long way toward recovery from the layoff.
Things are getting better, although “better” is a tenuous state of affairs. Just now I have about $210 to live on for the rest of the month, and the rest of the month is a LONG time.
So I suppose it was worth starting at 10 a.m. and plodding through to 6:00 p.m. filling out forms, revamping the endless CV, and writing an intricate cover letter. The applications for these jobs are true monsters, page after page after page of tedious forms…not the least is the one where they ask you to list
every…
single…
college…
course…
you’ve…
ever…
taken…
from…
the…
first…
semester…
of…
your…
freshman…
year…
until…
the…
day…
you…
filed…
your…
Ph.D….
dissertation…… GAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!
Fortunately, I had a copy of the very list, which I’d had to compile to apply for the munificent $2,400/semester courses an adjunct gets to teach. But even with pasting it into the application, getting all that stuff together and crafting what I hope is a convincing letter seemed to take forever.
Why they ask you to duplicate an application you already have on file with the District escapes me. But if that’s what they want, that’s what they’ll get. It’s so unlikely that they’re going to hire a 66-year-old woman into their plum job as to make spending time on this project downright ludicrous. On the other hand, any chance at all makes it worth an effort.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Good luck. You never know what might happen!
Good luck. I hope you get it.
Holy crow! I had no idea an academic position would require such tedious information! I wouldn’t even know how to document such a request. I can’t recall every course I took to earn my undergrad degree way back in the early 90’s. Documenting the grad school classes is possible based on what I still have around in my files, but undergrad stuff is long gone.
Best of luck!
Good luck for whatever outcome is actually the best for you! 🙂
@ all: Thanks!
@ Linda: The only way you can do it is to order up transcripts from every institution you’ve ever attended and then type up the course number, title, credits, and grade for every single class listed in them. The peculiarly stupid thing about this is that the District requires every applicant to send official transcripts. And so they HAVE that information! It’s an astonishing waste of time.
I’ve filled out that application. You have my sympathies!
Illegitimi non carborundum.