Chapter 20.1: A Girl's Humiliation
Copied and pasted from my comment on the last chapter as to what’s been going in my life:
For everyone that didn’t see my announcement on Discord, I’ve been searching for an internship during my translation break and it’s been taking a ton of my time and energy. For those who have read the announcement, here’s an update: it’s been a complete bloodbath. I suppose those among you who have gone through the same process understand the struggle.
Covid hasn’t been helping things out either. The field I’m studying in generally involves a lot of in person work and being close to people. I happen to be immunocompromised, and the vaccine has limited effectiveness on me. For my safety, I’m looking at work from home jobs in similar fields, which also happen to be positions that are usually looking to be filled by engineers. I am completely fucked.
Out of over a hundred applications, only two replies. A total of three interview, two of which were with the same company. I had high hopes, cause shit, why would you interview me twice if you didn’t like me, right? But nope, in the end I’m still without an internship. I absolutely need one for my degree and I’m pretty fucking devastated. I’m still looking, but my energy and motivation to do anything are at rock bottom. Needless to say, I haven’t been able to TL properly.
For those who are still intent on reading this novel, thank you so much for your patience.
For those who dropped, sorry for taking so long, and I hope you come back once a bunch of releases are out.
Well, here’s another update – it took a while, but I’m doing much better now! I’ve regained some of my motivation, and I’ve begun learning Java to try and earn a certification. At this point I don’t have a choice unless I want to be unemployed until the pandemic is fully over, and who knows how long that’ll take with the variants and all coming out…
I wish I had gone into engineering, but nooooo, teenage me didn’t want to be just like my engineer dad and got a business degree instead and now I want to do engineering jobs and I ain’t got no qualifications.
Ffs.