Written at 10:30PM on 8/31/11:
I was slipping and sliding in that abyss pool of helpless, hapless stuckitude, starting off the morning with a visit to the job sites to hunt down some surely unfit and/or unresponsive prospects, when my phone rang. I let it "Call from..." expecting the next word to be "Mom", but it read out a number instead. A 512 number which meant someone in Austin who I didn't know wanted to talk to me and the likelihood of it being a job opportunity was slightly higher than it would have been if I hadn't been whoring my resume around like a cheap tart.
It was a lovely lady from a well known company (I didn't realize how well known until later) asking for a phone interview to be scheduled. Since it was my only weekday off, I had to do it today so she set it to 3pm which gave me sufficient time to be anxious for half of my supposedly relaxing day off. The interview actually went well. She told me I had applied for another position but even though it had been filled she thought I would be good for this other one. I read up on the position prior to the interview and I saw nothing about it that I couldn't do so I was A-OK with that.
She laughed at all my little witticisms and made me feel comfortable enough to avoid too many rambling, word-blank moments that I am like to fall into when anxious and being expected of brilliance. Set schedule with weekends off, more money plus more opportunity of money on top of that, full benefits. Kind of awesome, really. So she told me to take two assessment tests sooner rather than later so she could set up an in-person interview for next week since the training classes for the position start the 12th. She liked me alright enough to pull my resume and I should have done fine with the assessments, they were fairly basic, so I am being a bit foolishly optimistic again. I just want out of what I am doing and am ready for something new and challenging!
I was slipping and sliding in that abyss pool of helpless, hapless stuckitude, starting off the morning with a visit to the job sites to hunt down some surely unfit and/or unresponsive prospects, when my phone rang. I let it "Call from..." expecting the next word to be "Mom", but it read out a number instead. A 512 number which meant someone in Austin who I didn't know wanted to talk to me and the likelihood of it being a job opportunity was slightly higher than it would have been if I hadn't been whoring my resume around like a cheap tart.
It was a lovely lady from a well known company (I didn't realize how well known until later) asking for a phone interview to be scheduled. Since it was my only weekday off, I had to do it today so she set it to 3pm which gave me sufficient time to be anxious for half of my supposedly relaxing day off. The interview actually went well. She told me I had applied for another position but even though it had been filled she thought I would be good for this other one. I read up on the position prior to the interview and I saw nothing about it that I couldn't do so I was A-OK with that.
She laughed at all my little witticisms and made me feel comfortable enough to avoid too many rambling, word-blank moments that I am like to fall into when anxious and being expected of brilliance. Set schedule with weekends off, more money plus more opportunity of money on top of that, full benefits. Kind of awesome, really. So she told me to take two assessment tests sooner rather than later so she could set up an in-person interview for next week since the training classes for the position start the 12th. She liked me alright enough to pull my resume and I should have done fine with the assessments, they were fairly basic, so I am being a bit foolishly optimistic again. I just want out of what I am doing and am ready for something new and challenging!
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