New Complications
Apr. 27th, 2012 17:16![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redleafSo i've been trying to secure a summer job, because I need the $$ and also because I need the structure - academia is so unstructured that my ADD nature is having a field day and taking the rest of me with it.
My areas of interest are still non-profits, but also governmental too . . . and therein lies the problem. If only I could be content in the for-profit corporate world!
Most non-profits here seem to be funded by the government, and if you remember my problems with most of academia being funded by the government you will remember the government earmarks their money to only go to citizens and permanent residents. Not that I blame them, because clearly they should get first dibs, but the government permeates everything here so I am finding it hard to find something that I can actually qualify for. It certainly doesn't help that I am not required to tell them I'm not a citizen or permanent resident, and they likewise don't usually disclose the limitations on the position's funding. This means I get quite far in the process before the connections are made and I am shown not to qualify.
To add to this, the federal government here has announced (unsurprisingly) significant cutbacks, and the details are still shaking out. This means so many positions are tentative or announced last minute. Not that the job market sucking is news, it is just making my position on a low rung in society that much more evident.
Which leaves me in a precarious position - if I'm not making the connections in the field now through part time and summer jobs . . . how am I going to get something full-time when I graduate? I will be on an even lower rung then and much more of a risk to employ (though they don't have to sponsor me like most American work related visas). Concerning to say the least, especially since the job market clearly won't turn around in the next year to that extent.
Something to worry about while I am not being productive at school I suppose. :)
My areas of interest are still non-profits, but also governmental too . . . and therein lies the problem. If only I could be content in the for-profit corporate world!
Most non-profits here seem to be funded by the government, and if you remember my problems with most of academia being funded by the government you will remember the government earmarks their money to only go to citizens and permanent residents. Not that I blame them, because clearly they should get first dibs, but the government permeates everything here so I am finding it hard to find something that I can actually qualify for. It certainly doesn't help that I am not required to tell them I'm not a citizen or permanent resident, and they likewise don't usually disclose the limitations on the position's funding. This means I get quite far in the process before the connections are made and I am shown not to qualify.
To add to this, the federal government here has announced (unsurprisingly) significant cutbacks, and the details are still shaking out. This means so many positions are tentative or announced last minute. Not that the job market sucking is news, it is just making my position on a low rung in society that much more evident.
Which leaves me in a precarious position - if I'm not making the connections in the field now through part time and summer jobs . . . how am I going to get something full-time when I graduate? I will be on an even lower rung then and much more of a risk to employ (though they don't have to sponsor me like most American work related visas). Concerning to say the least, especially since the job market clearly won't turn around in the next year to that extent.
Something to worry about while I am not being productive at school I suppose. :)