It’s like going on\u00a0fifty\u00a0first dates within\u00a0a single morning. You’re unemployed (lonely), inexperienced (clumsy in the sack and unsure of what you want), and\u00a0desperate for approval.<\/p>\n
Please love me!<\/em>\u00a0you say as you hand out that r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Tell me that I’m wanted and needed, and\u00a0that I’m not like the others. Tell me that I’m not a waste of space, and that the fancy slip of paper with my name on it actually means something.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n I kept the shorts and sandals at home and remembered to shave.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Up to the first company I go. The recruiter’s wearing a shiny purple ribbon, with “ALUMNI” embroidered in gold. It’s like he’s saying hey, I’ve been in your shoes before<\/em>. He speaks first.<\/p>\n “So,\u00a0tell me what you do.”<\/p>\n I tell him. Thirty seconds, tops.<\/p>\n “Cool, we’ll put your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 into the system.” He opens his hand for the handshake, but by the time our hands meet he’s already looking over my shoulder.<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n ~<\/p>\n There would be no second date for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s like going on\u00a0fifty\u00a0first dates within\u00a0a single morning. You’re unemployed (lonely), inexperienced (clumsy in the sack and unsure of what you want), and\u00a0desperate for approval. Please love me!\u00a0you say as you hand out that r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Tell me that I’m wanted and needed, and\u00a0that I’m not like the others. Tell me that I’m not a waste … Continue reading “a thought on college job fairs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-ucsd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-ru","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}