Job Hunting

I know that it feels like half of the US is job hunting right now and the economy sucks but I am finding that the restoration and conservation community is much more secretive then I anticipated. They don't advertise or have a web presence. They don't post jobs on regular sites and even the official organizations have outdated information on their websites!

How is a person supposed to infiltrate the system I ask? I have now started to systematically email strangers in hopes of a response! I had to create a table in a word document to keep track of who I send what because it seems so abstract. I've now read how to write every kind of resume and cover letter that is posted in every how to website and I feel like a cartoon character that has all those lovely symbols floating over their head as they lay slumped.

But I will continue to try...like everyone else...and maybe I'll be able to slip in under the barbed wire fence, avoid the motion detectors and run past the snarling dogs to enter the sacred kingdom of restoration!