A very important day

This was the day of the interview. The most important interview I have ever had. Why?

This morning, I called EI to find out how much time I had left for benefits. I have exactly one week, this week. After that, it's all over. Further, because of an overpayment from a long time ago, half my money was deducted at source for the last month and a half. On top of that, my landlady is all up my ass about rent which I have not completely paid, and I owe her an extra $200 because of a very stupid mathematical error on my part. It's pathetic. Not to mention all the others on my case. Christ, what a bad year. That's what happens when you work a grand total of 11 weeks in 52.

But this interview could change all of that. They are looking for a person right away. It would be directly in my domain of choice, project management. This is VERY important; it would be a job that I trained for and chose to do rather than sort of fall into, like so many salespeople and teachers. Oh, and this opportunity is in the realm of video games; something that I should have been involved with fifteen years ago but instead, I listened to those with the attitude that video games are for children.

The interview went very well, despite me sounding like an intelligent toad due to a mild throat infection, cold or something. I met with the VP of Human Resources instead of the other HR woman, because it seems that HR is still not well organized. They lost another person and it's been chaos. It's been almost a year like this as far as I can see. Her role was to size me up to see if I might fit the role offered, and to see what else I might be good for. She said that this role was quite good for me, and that my CV had some very strong points in it.

Next up was a game director and an executive game director. The EGD came out with the hard questions right away: "Project management is completely different from sales. Why the switch?" and "Give me examples where you were a leader and a coach." I think that I answered those questions well enough. Everything after that was more or less smooth sailing. All I have to do now is provide references and hopefully that will seal the deal. I REALLY need this.

Wish me luck.