Back tracking to 2 weeks ago: After 10 years of applying for full time faculty positions around the country I was finally invited to interview with a state university in South Dakota. The CAA conference is this week in Washington DC and that is where I am headed tomorrow to meet the hiring committee....
Or not.
Fast forward to this morning at 10am. I received an email telling me there is now a 4.05% budget cut at the state level due to falling oil revenues so as a result there is now a hiring freeze on. No job. No interview.
Huh.
I've decided to go anyway. There is a career center at the conference that I need to go to and beg for any little morsel of any kind of job anyplace in the world.
I've decided. God hates me.
