A @&%$#* week!

[QTOFFER]

I had a particularly craptacular week - partly why I haven't posted recently.

1) I found out that my position at work will not be renewed and that I'm out of a job in November. At least I have three months to find another job. I updated my CV and spent the last three days looking at online job postings.
So, now I guess they will not be buying the $750G instrument that I spent all Spring evaluating. What's the point if there's nobody around to operate it?

2) I've lost alot of fish. The water params in all my tanks are fantastic.
I had to euthanize my chronically sick severum after his finrot relapsed in a big way.
A brand new firemouth died in the QT tank for whatever reason.
Both ropefish died - I think they may have starved to death.

At one point, I was ready to knock down the tanks and give up. Right now, it sucks to be me.

 

[shawmutt]

sorry to hear, QTOFFER

craptacular--what a great word

hope things start looking up!

 

[Sara]

Hey QTOFFER,

I work at the career and placement Centre at my university...and as such am the resident resume guru among all of my friends . If you need a second opinion on your CV, feel free to give me a pm and I'll send you my email address.

Hope everything works out for you...

 

[BrianNY]

I feel for you man. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

 

[dralarms]

Sorry to hear about your troubles, hope things turn around for you.

 

[Menagerie]

I was wondering where you where! I am so sorry to hear about the bad turn of events. Take comfort with your mouse friends and hopefully things will will around soon.

 

[lmw80]

Jump in your mouse ball and work off that steam!

Things will get better...everyone has bad fish times.

 

[cginflorida]

Sorry for all your troubles, QT. Hope things get better soon. Good luck with the job hunting.

 

[TankGirl]

Sorry to hear about all of this - that is a bad run. I think I might have to euthanize my blind angel, so I feel your pain. It'll get better. We're pullin' for you!

I also like that word - craptacular - gonna have to use it

 

[QTOFFER]

Thanks for the words of encouragement. This site is the best!
The job search is moving forward - I've applied for four positions online since Monday.

I have the nagging feeling that my online job-hunt resources are incomplete. If anybody knows of any science job posting sites or recruiters who specialize in placing PhD scientists within the bio-pharm industry, please let me know - I would really appreciate it!

Till then, if anybody needs any mass spectrometry done in their yard or some unusual proteins in their refrigerator identified......


Craptacular.
adj.
Used to describe a person, place, thing, or situation that is spectacularly crappy.
Origin: The Simpsons...of course
http://www.rpi.edu/~markhn/sounds/craptclr.wav

(The word that was actually on my mind would have gotten me banned from this site forever.)

 

[Menagerie]

Till then, if anybody needs any mass spectrometry done in their yard or some unusual proteins in their refrigerator identified......

Are you willing to relocate to Calgary??

 

[QTOFFER]

Are you willing to relocate to Calgary??

Not really. I love living in Queens because there is so much to do and everything is easily reached by public transportation. I don't even want to move to northern NJ, but I may have to because that's where all the pharma companies are located.

 

[An t-iasg]

Hi QTOFFER,
Sorry to hear about your fish and job troubles. The only on-line job posting site I know of is Monster.com, but I'm sure you know about that one!

Congrats on getting your resume together and applying for some jobs already! That can be a job in itself!

lmw80's right -- everyone has bad fish times. Tanks do have a way of rebounding back too!

Hmmm...I'm not sure what mass spectrometry is (and I was a bio major for two years!) but I went out to my perennial garden this morning and found it halfway destroyed by moles.....if the spectrogram would chase away the moles, then come on over!