Dead end

I applied for two jobs over christmas - Librarian at Leeds University Special Collections, Librarian at the Small Arms Technical Information Centre at the Royal Armouries. I got a rejection letter today for the latter, and I'm fairly certain I would have heard by now if I were being invited for interview for the first.

My trouble I think comes from working in a specialist unit - abstracting and indexing and classification - Not specialist enough for the first job, which wanted experience of cataloguing manuscripts and collection level description. I actually worked in Special Collections during my graduate traineeship five years ago, or thereabouts. But it was in another bit, doing retrospective conversion. The second one I think I needed more customer service experience, which I pretty much have very little of. But I think there's little chance of getting any without a massive pay cut. I am going to try get more in my current job - but it has to be on a small scale, I can't take on huge stress at the moment. Sigh. I need to win the lottery.