Learning Patience

I have been applying for job after job, and am just waiting and waiting for anyone to get back at me.  I have not gotten any rejections lately, but am still playing the waiting game for every job I have applied for.  It is interesting to me how long the processes take in higher education to hire someone.  I was also amazed last semester at how long it took our office to actually hire somebody in the Academic Success Center after the job posting.  The posting was up for at least two weeks, and then the week before fall break, we applied four people.  No one was offered the job until after school began for the spring semester.  I am looking at other jobs, as well, outside of higher education, as I would like to work in training and education for companies.  Those jobs, however, would move a little faster and I need to work on my resume for jobs outside of higher education.  It feels very confusing to me that I spent all of this time, energy, and money and am not necessarily completely committed to working at a college.  It is important to me, but I suppose as long as I am working with people in a similar capacity.

This job search is forcing me to become more patient and focus more on the present.  There is so much about job searching that is out of my control, which really bothers me.  I am having to learn how to focus more on what is under my control, which is focusing on my school work and working on myself.  I've spent a lot of time this semester already on trying to be more organized and working out and being generally healthier.  Hopefully I can keep up the healthfulness after graduation.  Something tells me it may even be a little bit easier without all the homework!