balls to that

so apparently 5 years of my science job and 2 summers working at a science day camp and 6 years of teaching swimming lessons is not enough to get you a job as an instructor with the science summer camps that the university puts on. but they did suggest i work as a volunteer. right. balls to that. are they kidding me? we go to the same school. we all know what tuition is. volunteering is awesome, but it doesn't pay the bills. that's something you do once a week. not for a summer.

i'm pretty pissed. i wrote back to my rejection email and asked for specific details about their reasons for not offering me an interview. they said competition was tough. competition was tough? i was the competition. they have no idea what they could have benefited from my experience. they didn't even talk to my references. i don't usually get over-confident about things, but seriously, not hiring me is their loss. i know that i'm great at my job and i'm great with kids. i've been teaching kids for nine years. nine years! so yeah. they lose out.