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geek_anachronismComing back to Melbourne for a visit has pretty comprehensively made me want to move back here.
Looking at the job postings makes it even better.
Te library industry in Brisbane is eating itself. All contract and temp work, or hiring the incumbent anyway, after the interview process. Asking people to write their own selection criteria so you get junk like "knows the university's needs" which is presumably something one learns on the job. Unless you only hire internal. And the only way to become internal is either three month part-time contracts or, rarely, casual work. The pay scales are fucking obnoxious too - $70k for a library sysadmin for the second biggest library network in the state? That's just stupid. $55k for cond in command at a massive branch with 20 staff? No wonder you weren't requesting a degree with either of those, then you'd have to go with real payscales, not this secondary earner bullshit.
Which is fine if you assume all librarians are older women with partners who are major breadwinners. I can't take a three month contract to get out of my current job - not with a mortgage. I can't do it. i can't drop my ge so significantly.
But, I also can't keep doing this.
I think we're going to sell the house. I don't know about moving to Melbourne again, but I think we need to get off this crazy making thing of owning a house. We're thirty, why are we doing this to ourselves?
Looking at the job postings makes it even better.
Te library industry in Brisbane is eating itself. All contract and temp work, or hiring the incumbent anyway, after the interview process. Asking people to write their own selection criteria so you get junk like "knows the university's needs" which is presumably something one learns on the job. Unless you only hire internal. And the only way to become internal is either three month part-time contracts or, rarely, casual work. The pay scales are fucking obnoxious too - $70k for a library sysadmin for the second biggest library network in the state? That's just stupid. $55k for cond in command at a massive branch with 20 staff? No wonder you weren't requesting a degree with either of those, then you'd have to go with real payscales, not this secondary earner bullshit.
Which is fine if you assume all librarians are older women with partners who are major breadwinners. I can't take a three month contract to get out of my current job - not with a mortgage. I can't do it. i can't drop my ge so significantly.
But, I also can't keep doing this.
I think we're going to sell the house. I don't know about moving to Melbourne again, but I think we need to get off this crazy making thing of owning a house. We're thirty, why are we doing this to ourselves?