Jobby Kinda Thing
Oct. 14th, 2007 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_ytWell, I have a job now. Sort of. I have to complete a trial assignment so that they can decide to hire me.
The company is a small consulting group in Detroit that primarily serves academic institutions. They look up funding resources for their clients. My trial-run job is to write an executive summary of various grants and training resources provided by the federal government for the purpose of improving a university's security, disaster preparedness, emergency warning and disaster response systems. I've already found some stuff and have the beginnings of a good-looking list, although never having written an executive summary before, I'm not sure if it looks right. My potential employer did not provide me with a template.
Now, about the job more generally: it will be ten to twelve hours a week, which I can fit into my schedule without too much difficulty - I just need to cut down on things like, say, putzing around on the internet or reloading my LiveJournal friends page over and over again hoping for a new post (yes, I am pathetic). The problem is, I will have to go into Detroit twice a week for administrative assistant duties. Detroit is half an hour to 45 minutes away when the traffic is not bad, and to be fair I will probably not be driving during rush hour. However, with the weather getting colder, I will soon have to contend with driving on icy roads, and my misadventure the one time I drove my car on wet pavement here makes me less than confident about my ability to do that. My mom's worried about it too. The commute will also lengthen my effective working week and make me use a lot more gas.
Mom suggested that, after I do this assignment and see whether they like me or not, I should tell my boss about my lack of driving experience and possibly try to get out of the office stuff and just do research stuff. I'm not sure how to do that, but it's definitely an issue I have to address.
Fortunately I don't really need the money (although getting 13 dollars an hour and thus having to use less of my savings would be nice), but I think I do need something like this on my resume, or at least it would be very good to have. It could also lead to a summer internship. And I need to have an internship in my program to get credit.
I'm glad that I got this, but I'm a little nervous about it.
The company is a small consulting group in Detroit that primarily serves academic institutions. They look up funding resources for their clients. My trial-run job is to write an executive summary of various grants and training resources provided by the federal government for the purpose of improving a university's security, disaster preparedness, emergency warning and disaster response systems. I've already found some stuff and have the beginnings of a good-looking list, although never having written an executive summary before, I'm not sure if it looks right. My potential employer did not provide me with a template.
Now, about the job more generally: it will be ten to twelve hours a week, which I can fit into my schedule without too much difficulty - I just need to cut down on things like, say, putzing around on the internet or reloading my LiveJournal friends page over and over again hoping for a new post (yes, I am pathetic). The problem is, I will have to go into Detroit twice a week for administrative assistant duties. Detroit is half an hour to 45 minutes away when the traffic is not bad, and to be fair I will probably not be driving during rush hour. However, with the weather getting colder, I will soon have to contend with driving on icy roads, and my misadventure the one time I drove my car on wet pavement here makes me less than confident about my ability to do that. My mom's worried about it too. The commute will also lengthen my effective working week and make me use a lot more gas.
Mom suggested that, after I do this assignment and see whether they like me or not, I should tell my boss about my lack of driving experience and possibly try to get out of the office stuff and just do research stuff. I'm not sure how to do that, but it's definitely an issue I have to address.
Fortunately I don't really need the money (although getting 13 dollars an hour and thus having to use less of my savings would be nice), but I think I do need something like this on my resume, or at least it would be very good to have. It could also lead to a summer internship. And I need to have an internship in my program to get credit.
I'm glad that I got this, but I'm a little nervous about it.
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Date: 2007-10-14 10:56 pm (UTC)Also, as plus_c said, you'll benefit more in the long run if you just learn how to drive in the snow. Like anything, it gets easier with practice and experience. You should be able to avoid driving in the worst conditions, anyway, since they only want you there 2x a week, if they are flexible about which two days you can go.