The job hunt
Aug. 4th, 2011 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trenchkamenI got a call from an unknown number this morning. The speaker sounded like a human, and he asked for me by name, so I was a little bit excited.
He wanted to know if I wanted to renew my American Chemical Society subscription. I said I was busy and hung up.
For what it's worth, ACS membership isn't worth crap. It's about as persuasive a credential to my science portfolio as one of those draw-in 'art tests' is to my art portfolio, even if I got a reply back saying I drew the bear very well, and had real creative potential, and would I like to pay an easy $99 for a correspondence course to tap into my limitless potential? Anybody can be in ACS, if you have money and give enough of two shits to sign up. I was a member because I got a steeply discounted price in college as a student affiliate (I thought THAT would show initiative on a grad school application, or something), and the magazines were occasionally a good read.
Also got what I thought was a fic review, but it was spam.
He wanted to know if I wanted to renew my American Chemical Society subscription. I said I was busy and hung up.
For what it's worth, ACS membership isn't worth crap. It's about as persuasive a credential to my science portfolio as one of those draw-in 'art tests' is to my art portfolio, even if I got a reply back saying I drew the bear very well, and had real creative potential, and would I like to pay an easy $99 for a correspondence course to tap into my limitless potential? Anybody can be in ACS, if you have money and give enough of two shits to sign up. I was a member because I got a steeply discounted price in college as a student affiliate (I thought THAT would show initiative on a grad school application, or something), and the magazines were occasionally a good read.
Also got what I thought was a fic review, but it was spam.
