The Cover Letter of Sisyphus: And, Libraries with No Money and No Proust

Searching for a job is tremendously frustrating. Everyone seems to point out that you have to look at your job search as your full-time job. That makes perfect sense, of course, but it ignores that fact that looking for a job is the worst job ever. First of all, you never get paid, and second of all you rarely get the satisfaction of knowing that your task has been completed in an excellent, let alone satisfactory manner. It’s not like, when you send a cover letter and resume out, along with a rejection letter you get a list of improvements that you should make. “This looks good, Nathan, but could you emphasize your work experience with archives a bit more?”

Introduction: Or, Unemployment Blues

I don’t know how many blogs I’ve started in my lifetime, though I can at least tell you that under this specific profile, you’ll find four blogs started by me, and one blog that I’ve contributed to. Of course, most of those are at least semi-inactive, which should indicate that I’m not very good at the biggest part of authoring a blog: authoring. Indeed, though I already have a tumblr with this exact same name here, you’ll notice that the last post was dropped nearly nine months ago. You will probably also notice that most, if not all, of the posts were entirely inconsequential. I have no reason to believe that this blog will not fall quickly to the same fate. However, I do have one mixed blessing on my side, a situation that gives me more opportunity to write blogs, but one that simultaneously gives me less reason to do so. You see, I’m unemployed.