Biweekly Subreddit Coffee Hour for June 06, 2017

Wow, this weekly coffee hour kind of struck me. I've been jobless a year out of graduation from college (except for the metropolis' soup kitchen and other volunteer programs plus a part-time, unpaid internship that looks good on paper but doesn't pay the bills), and all my friends are bailing out of Chicago for NYC. So I'm unemployed and alone.

Some good news came up I guess. The Archdiocese teamed up with a charity in Athens looking for summer volunteer-workers. It's only a month but it gets me a foot in the door to convince other NGO's on the ground in Greece that I'm worth hiring. But well you know how it goes: something came up with on the archdiocesan side of things so the response has been delayed. I was supposed to definitely know yes or no by the 12th, and now I get a message today saying that I'm actually a finalist, and I need to be approved by the charity itself, and that could take a few days. I have a surprise round of interviews coming up and that just kind of knocked the wind out of me. Every single time I apply for a job, if I get any response from HR at all, it's something like this, a surprise. I've worked for a real estate agency, the Greek consulate general to Chicago, the US government, now a thinktank, I've been a volunteer for 10 years, I speak Greek and English: what else do I need to add to my skillset that will get the all-seeing eye of HR to just see who I am? I thought it was like my divine providential reason to be out in Greece and actually trying to stem the tide of chaos and ruination as one individual, but well, it don't look that way. I'm stuck. Full stop.

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