Tomorrow is my last day on the job. I thought I would feel very sad and overly nostalgic. I finished my last experiment today, gave away a few more freezer boxes of reagents, and convinced my coworkers to take a frozen yogurt break. I mean, I will miss THEM, and having an excuse to see them everyday. But really, it is time to move on. It's scary not to know where I am going next, but I'm actually feeling excited about it. I mean, I have lots to do.
If you are still following the "other blog" you may have seen that a recruiter called me today simply to walk me through how to make better connections on LinkedIn. It seems pretty obvious when he explained it, but I thought that looking for strangers to connect to might be a violation of.... something, I don't know. If I can find them, it's because they are willing to be connected with. So the next stage of the job hunt will be more targeted.
I also spoke with a Career Coach today. I have mixed feelings about this service- I don't think it would be that helpful to solve my imminent problem, but I suspect it might be invaluable for helping me reach my long term goals. But what it comes down to is paying someone to provide mentoring and counseling for career problems. I mean, shouldn't I be able to find mentors in real life? Like, for free? Because this career coach is the opposite of free- like $200/hr (or packages for 10 sessions! Only $750!). Not like I've shopped around much, but my impression is that these services- esp for someone with any concept of the science universe, will not be cheap.
Oh- and we went camping over the weekend and it was awesome. Beautiful (non-hurricaned) weather all weekend, great food, nice long hike and TONS of butterflies. Nice to get away, I suspect it is doing a lot for my peace of mind this week.
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