though i love the place i work at and the people, the hours are not enough. i've always been looking for a second job though not always actively going after it. a lot of the places i've applied to were retailers. not a place i want to go back to at all but i had no choice with my work experience.
only recently did it occur to me that i now have enough experience and something to offer to even write a cover letter. when you have very little work experience your cover letters just ends up repeating your resume which is not what you're supposed to do. that was a part of my problem in the past. so here i am. i just created a more professional email address and spent a few days trying to come up with a stand out cover letter. the cover letter itself i wrote in the body of the message. i finally finished it. i test sent it to myself more than a few dozen times until hotmail told me i had reached my limit for emails sent in a day (never even knew there was a limit) but i fixed that by giving them my phone number which i never wanted to do (they promised not to give it away to third parties). copying and pasting from word document is a big disaster--everything becomes double spaced once it's sent! for my resume, i just sent it as an attachment.
so i just sent it in. in two weeks i will call the hiring person. also nerve wracking. then it's just waiting. hopefully something will open up in the future and i will come to mind.
i have a few more places i want to send it to, too. once all that's done, time to go back to studying for the graduate exam.
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