I didn't get THAT job, either.
I am going to stop talking about job opportunities until one of them pans out.
Work: February 2007 Archives
I had that interview on Friday. I was the first person that they interviewed, which gives me mixed feelings. It's good because there is no one that I have to beat yet, and the interview would probably be easier this way. On the other hand, I don't get a chance to be clearly better than someone else before me, and I may not have really been able to show what I have to bring to the table since they may have been lobbing puffballs at me, rather than whipping hardballs. In any case, I will not get any kind of response until this Friday at the earliest, and I wouldn't be surprised if I had to have a second interview.
This is a problem, because today I started at zura's company. It was option #2. If I have to have a second interview, then I will ultimately have to call in sick or something. If I then get the job, then I simply suck. They will have trained and paid me for nothing. I would feel bad about that, but the hounds are at the door, I can't wait that long for cash, and I would much rather have the extra 50-60% in cash.
It was pretty difficult to truly accept that I have a job now. That I have to get up in the morning and go to work. I can get used to this again, of course, but this morning it felt as though I was going to a seminar or something. Nothing to get excited about. And as I anticipated, they weren't ready for me, so I am sitting here, well, blogging. There isn't anyone available to actually train me for the moment. I don't even have the software to get started. But once I have that, I know that it will become interesting as hell.
Just ran into Leonard Cohen on boulevard St-Laurent, near his house. I nodded and smiled hello. He nodded back, graciously. Yep, I'm feeling pretty slick right now.
Anyway, I have an interview to become a project administrator tomorrow. I think my chances here are much better than at that video game company. Some references have already been called, and those calls went well. As stated, they already know that I don't have the five years experience, and that they aren't going to find anyone with anywhere near that level of experience. Such people are already either project coordinators, managers, control officers or something other than a lowly administrator on a contract for one year. I think that my chances aren't bad, but since I am well acquainted with disappointment, I have no expectations here whatsoever.
Maybe I should have had Saint Leonard bless me or something.
P.S.: I feel a bit lame because I don't really know Cohen's works at all and I feel like it's just too late for me; there's just way too much to catch up on. On the other hand, Anjani Thomas (his music partner and current love interest, talk about May-December) has been said to be, artistically, "Leonard Cohen reincarnated as a woman". Maybe I could start there.
