Neat story, Gotta pay attention to the details. Congratulations Mark! dk
On 7/27/06, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > >You got a job in a university and you call that a "real job" ??? > > Well sort of. Half, anyway: There's a considerable separation from > reality, so the "real" part is somewhat dubious. But I've taught a > college course before, and my mother spent here career as a college > professor, so I'm well aware of the enormity of the "job" part of the > deal. Lotsa work involved... > > There's a whole lot of serendipity involved in my getting this job. I > picked up the Sunday (July 16) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette classified ads > on Monday morning after a busy Sunday. I noticed this teaching > position at Youngstown State University (in Ohio) that looked > tailor-made for me so I made a note to apply for it. It hadn't been in > the previous week's paper so I didn't think there would be any urgency > about it, even though something in the back of my mind thought it was > late in the year for this kind of position to be advertised. > > I didn't get around to preparing my application materials until > Tuesday afternoon, at which point I noticed that the application > deadline was Wednesday, July 19 - the next day! I continued scrambling > to get materials together and zapped off a quick email to them asking > if it was OK to apply via email or if they wanted hard copy (I > mentioned, while hoping not to sound too desperate, that I'd be > willing to drive up Wednesday if necessary). On Wednesday morning I > got a reply saying email would be fine (I was just getting ready to > get in my car to drive up there) so I sent of an email with a ton of > attachments. > > On Thursday morning I got a phone call asking if I could come up to > interview and give a brief demonstration lecture on Tuesday. > > So I spent the weekend preparing my presentation and drove up Tuesday > morning. The woman who had led the search committee recognized me from > my web page head shot (thanks Cesar!) and I discovered that she: > > Also lives in Pittsburgh and commutes to Youngstown > And lives less than two miles from me > Did the same master's program at Duquesne University that I did > And her husband teaches at Duquesne > And that she knows the guy with whom I taught the sound course at > Duquesne last year > > Anyway, my presentation wen *very* well on Tuesday and they called me > at 9:00 Wednesday morning and offered me the job! > > Job officially starts on Aug 16 (classes begin Aug 28) but I'm going > to be up to my eyeballs in preparation until then. I suspect the > teaching workload with new (to me) classes will severely cut down my > PDML participation time from now on. Whether that's good or bad is > another matter ;-) > > -- > Mark Roberts Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > 412-687-2835 > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
