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[Aug. 1st, 2009|01:24 am] |
So I've been working on my application to work at DOJ after graduation, and boy they don't make it easy. Their online submission form is the most annoying job application form I think I've ever seen. For example, it asks for references, but you can't just give them a name, phone, and email. You are required to find a street address for them too! You also can't just send them a transcript, you have to individually retype every single grade you got in every single class into their website. And then, at the end, just when you think you are done, they make you write TWO 2000 word essays about why you want to work at DOJ. Considering that I have almost no chance of actually getting a job there, having to write two essays seems like they are just trying to be difficult. I know that they probably want to 'weed out' people who aren't serious. But considering there are a million other opportunities working elsewhere that don't require writing essays and retyping your transcript into their website, they really aren't weeding out the unqualified, they are weeding out people who aren't so desperate that they are willing to jump through all these hoops for a miniscule chance at a job. Hiring the most desperate doesn't seem like the best way to staff your office DOJ! All that being said, I have to admit that I'm one of the losers desperate enough to jump through all those hoops for a miniscule chance at a job.
So there's this bar here in Juneau that has al these old-timey photos on the wall of life in Juneau 100+ years ago. The thing that really struck me about the photos is that in every one that shows the Channel, there are icebergs floating in it. Big ones. There are no icebergs anymore. I even asked some of the locals, and people who've been here for years told me they've never seen an iceberg in the Channel. I think that's pretty good evidence that the climate up here is radically different from where it was 100+ years ago. |
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