Very sorry about the long read and nobody really needs to read it but just need to vent some...
I finished my masters degree in May. Have been looking for jobs and interviewing most of the summer. About 6 weeks ago I drive to Arkansas for the weekend and a job interview monday morning. On sunday I get a call from my landlady saying a pipe on a water filter broke in my apartment and flooded my apartment and two others. I Postpone my interview and head back to nacogdoches. I did not get into this field to make money but because I really like it, however, Non of the jobs I interviewed for want to give me credit for having a masters in this field and a years experience in the field and want to start me at the lowest rate for that job position. (I don't expect a big difference but even $1000/year extra for the masters degree would have been nice.
Fast forward to a week and a half ago, I get the job offer from Arkansas and except it. I go up there last weekend with the intentions of staying two to three days for job paperwork and find a rent house. Look for two days at about 7 houses/duplexes, decide on the second house I looked at and call them and they say they rented it that morning thinking I was not interested in it even though I had told them it was at the top but since I had only looked at one other and had appointments for 5 others I would let them know the next day before I left. Everything else I looked at to rent was complete junk for 5 - 6 hundred a month. There was one nice place for 700 per month I did find, However at that much I can be paying a pretty nice mortgage payment instead of 8400 a year in rent.
Found a decent foreclosed fixer upper in my price range but the bank decided to put it up for auction this weekend. I had it inspected and sign up with auction dot com to bid on it and read the fine print. They can counter bid on a house until it has reached the reserve price the bank had set on it (does not sound right but I go with it and make a bid). I am outbid, not sure if it was auction.com or an individual, with 45 second left I bid my max. At 5 seconds on the clock I am out bid, the clock then starts counting down from 2.5 minutes and the minimum bid goes from 5000 to 2500. Then at 5 seconds again it drops to 500 min. bid and starts counting down from 2.5 minutes again before finally ending. From what I can tell it never hit the reserve and I am not sure if I was high bidder or not or if I was bidding against a computer or a person. I am very very frustrated because it is a week later and I still don't have a clue where I will be staying...
Then I get back to nacogdoches and it is 100 degrees in my apartment because my A/C has gone out sometime within the last week while I have been out of town.
Again Very sorry about the long read and nobody really needs to read it but I just needed to vent some...
I know this really does not compare or sound bad when compared to some of the things other TBH'ers are going through.
I finished my masters degree in May. Have been looking for jobs and interviewing most of the summer. About 6 weeks ago I drive to Arkansas for the weekend and a job interview monday morning. On sunday I get a call from my landlady saying a pipe on a water filter broke in my apartment and flooded my apartment and two others. I Postpone my interview and head back to nacogdoches. I did not get into this field to make money but because I really like it, however, Non of the jobs I interviewed for want to give me credit for having a masters in this field and a years experience in the field and want to start me at the lowest rate for that job position. (I don't expect a big difference but even $1000/year extra for the masters degree would have been nice.
Fast forward to a week and a half ago, I get the job offer from Arkansas and except it. I go up there last weekend with the intentions of staying two to three days for job paperwork and find a rent house. Look for two days at about 7 houses/duplexes, decide on the second house I looked at and call them and they say they rented it that morning thinking I was not interested in it even though I had told them it was at the top but since I had only looked at one other and had appointments for 5 others I would let them know the next day before I left. Everything else I looked at to rent was complete junk for 5 - 6 hundred a month. There was one nice place for 700 per month I did find, However at that much I can be paying a pretty nice mortgage payment instead of 8400 a year in rent.
Found a decent foreclosed fixer upper in my price range but the bank decided to put it up for auction this weekend. I had it inspected and sign up with auction dot com to bid on it and read the fine print. They can counter bid on a house until it has reached the reserve price the bank had set on it (does not sound right but I go with it and make a bid). I am outbid, not sure if it was auction.com or an individual, with 45 second left I bid my max. At 5 seconds on the clock I am out bid, the clock then starts counting down from 2.5 minutes and the minimum bid goes from 5000 to 2500. Then at 5 seconds again it drops to 500 min. bid and starts counting down from 2.5 minutes again before finally ending. From what I can tell it never hit the reserve and I am not sure if I was high bidder or not or if I was bidding against a computer or a person. I am very very frustrated because it is a week later and I still don't have a clue where I will be staying...
Then I get back to nacogdoches and it is 100 degrees in my apartment because my A/C has gone out sometime within the last week while I have been out of town.
Again Very sorry about the long read and nobody really needs to read it but I just needed to vent some...
I know this really does not compare or sound bad when compared to some of the things other TBH'ers are going through.
If so, welcome to the profession.
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