Oh yay, 4am

Perry is headed to Boston for The Head of the Charles.

Dh is taking him to the airport, they left at 4am.

I have woken up about every half hour since I went to bed at 11pm.

Fingers crossed that I manage to get back to sleep for an hour or two, I have a job phone screen later this morning and I'd like to be vaguely mentally competent for that.

Hard to think that two of my kids are up at this time almost every day.

Also, I'm really annoyed that my cats can't talk.

And it's siamese1 's birthday! Happy Birthday!

A wake up call.

Wow, that didn't go well. Had a phone screen for a Research Tech II position this morning. Was told in not so many words that I'd never get a RT II position because I didn't have any experience, and no, education does not substitute (I guess that MS was useless), and good luck finding an RT I position because while they usually only require a BS, PIs want young people straight out of college who want to pursue a PhD. And yes, he said young people straight out of college, which I am clearly not. FML

It's pretty clear that I'm not going to find a low-level research job. The only others jobs I've been seeing around are shift work, which I was hoping not to have to do. Most of those have the typical must be able to carry 50lbs around, which, WTF? I can't quite do that, so I'll have to look for those that only need you to be able to haul around 25, which I can do. Either than or get a phlebotomy license, for some reason there seems to be plenty of openings there, though again, mostly swing or night shift.

I've only had a few phone screens and interviews recently, but I did talk to a few people at Western when I was "interviewing" there before being accepted, and I did interview a lot back when. I have never had anyone pretty much tell me my education and experience aren't worth shit, even when I interviewed for jobs that I was clearly underqualified for.