If anyone wants to advise Ooker on writing a statement of purpose, here's a chat room for that purpose:

chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/20668/…

I just received a rejection email from University of Wisconsin for a job I applied to 3 years ago. So glad I do not work in the UW system.

@StrongBad I suggest you submit that to the annual academic writing contest hosted by FemaleScienceProfessor

one sec, I'll find you the link

Here you go:

science-professor.blogspot.com/2014/12/write-this-2014.html

This year's entries have been kind of lame. The rejection letter from 3 years ago would be a good addition :)

@ff524 I would be interested to know what the oldest "open" job that HR had on the system. I bet someone got an email from a job application that is 10+ years old.

@StrongBad I would be surprised if their job application system was 10+ years old

@ff524 I submitted it.