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Nov. 29th, 2010
Writer's Block: Ready for my close-up
Nov. 29th, 2010 05:23 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I've often wanted to host Saturday Night Live with this whole "Random Person Dragged In Off the Street" schtick.
Its been done before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskel_Spillman
I've often wanted to host Saturday Night Live with this whole "Random Person Dragged In Off the Street" schtick.
Its been done before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskel_Spillman
Writer's Block: Ready for my close-up
Nov. 29th, 2010 05:23 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I've often wanted to host Saturday Night Live with this whole "Random Person Dragged In Off the Street" schtick.
Its been done before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskel_Spillman
I've often wanted to host Saturday Night Live with this whole "Random Person Dragged In Off the Street" schtick.
Its been done before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miskel_Spillman
So what happened? That's what I keep asking myself, too.
Set the wayback machine to Wednesday, I'm called in for a pre-screening interview for a job. I fill out all the paperwork and all the little tests, and am given a second interview at this big computer corporation in Austin. One thing they specifically told me: "Be bubbly! They're going to ask you a question that's about empathy, and then how to put together a PB&J sandwich. Here is how you answer it...."
I thought that was wierd, but I listened and decided to take them at their word.
So I show up, we're given this big thirty minute intro that lays out, no absences, no tardys, no tests below 80% or your assignment ends. I begin to have second thoughts about this job compared to AwesomeJob, which is pretty Awesome.
So I take their little test, and wait my turn for the interview that I had rehearsed that previous Wednesday. I get called in, and the interviewer grades my paper right there and then. I make a joke that I have a sore throat and we both laugh. He asks me about AwesomeJob, which is pretty Awesome, and he takes a few notes. Asks me about my history, and I'm as "bubbly" as my throat will let me be.
He makes a few notes, and I'm waiting for the interview to "begin." This all seems more like getting to know you banter. He says "Do you have anything in the other room?" and points out to where all the other applicants are, I say no. He then says "Well, if you'll follow me...."
We make for the door, and I'm guessing this is where the interview will be and instead it's a door to the outside with someone waiting. "She'll show you the way out, thanks for stopping by."
And I'm just...huh...wha?
The temp company, despite promising to call me before the end of the day, never did.
And thus ended my job search in Texas.
30 jobs applied for, three phone interviews, two face to face interviews, no jobs.
But I'm not devastated - AwesomeJob is waiting for me in Seattle. I'll come back on my raise, hopefully some good hours, and to good friends. It's just....just that it's not home. And that just eats away at my soul.
We'll try again next year.
Set the wayback machine to Wednesday, I'm called in for a pre-screening interview for a job. I fill out all the paperwork and all the little tests, and am given a second interview at this big computer corporation in Austin. One thing they specifically told me: "Be bubbly! They're going to ask you a question that's about empathy, and then how to put together a PB&J sandwich. Here is how you answer it...."
I thought that was wierd, but I listened and decided to take them at their word.
So I show up, we're given this big thirty minute intro that lays out, no absences, no tardys, no tests below 80% or your assignment ends. I begin to have second thoughts about this job compared to AwesomeJob, which is pretty Awesome.
So I take their little test, and wait my turn for the interview that I had rehearsed that previous Wednesday. I get called in, and the interviewer grades my paper right there and then. I make a joke that I have a sore throat and we both laugh. He asks me about AwesomeJob, which is pretty Awesome, and he takes a few notes. Asks me about my history, and I'm as "bubbly" as my throat will let me be.
He makes a few notes, and I'm waiting for the interview to "begin." This all seems more like getting to know you banter. He says "Do you have anything in the other room?" and points out to where all the other applicants are, I say no. He then says "Well, if you'll follow me...."
We make for the door, and I'm guessing this is where the interview will be and instead it's a door to the outside with someone waiting. "She'll show you the way out, thanks for stopping by."
And I'm just...huh...wha?
The temp company, despite promising to call me before the end of the day, never did.
And thus ended my job search in Texas.
30 jobs applied for, three phone interviews, two face to face interviews, no jobs.
But I'm not devastated - AwesomeJob is waiting for me in Seattle. I'll come back on my raise, hopefully some good hours, and to good friends. It's just....just that it's not home. And that just eats away at my soul.
We'll try again next year.
So what happened? That's what I keep asking myself, too.
Set the wayback machine to Wednesday, I'm called in for a pre-screening interview for a job. I fill out all the paperwork and all the little tests, and am given a second interview at this big computer corporation in Austin. One thing they specifically told me: "Be bubbly! They're going to ask you a question that's about empathy, and then how to put together a PB&J sandwich. Here is how you answer it...."
I thought that was wierd, but I listened and decided to take them at their word.
So I show up, we're given this big thirty minute intro that lays out, no absences, no tardys, no tests below 80% or your assignment ends. I begin to have second thoughts about this job compared to AwesomeJob, which is pretty Awesome.
So I take their little test, and wait my turn for the interview that I had rehearsed that previous Wednesday. I get called in, and the interviewer grades my paper right there and then. I make a joke that I have a sore throat and we both laugh. He asks me about AwesomeJob, which is pretty Awesome, and he takes a few notes. Asks me about my history, and I'm as "bubbly" as my throat will let me be.
He makes a few notes, and I'm waiting for the interview to "begin." This all seems more like getting to know you banter. He says "Do you have anything in the other room?" and points out to where all the other applicants are, I say no. He then says "Well, if you'll follow me...."
We make for the door, and I'm guessing this is where the interview will be and instead it's a door to the outside with someone waiting. "She'll show you the way out, thanks for stopping by."
And I'm just...huh...wha?
The temp company, despite promising to call me before the end of the day, never did.
And thus ended my job search in Texas.
30 jobs applied for, three phone interviews, two face to face interviews, no jobs.
But I'm not devastated - AwesomeJob is waiting for me in Seattle. I'll come back on my raise, hopefully some good hours, and to good friends. It's just....just that it's not home. And that just eats away at my soul.
We'll try again next year.
Set the wayback machine to Wednesday, I'm called in for a pre-screening interview for a job. I fill out all the paperwork and all the little tests, and am given a second interview at this big computer corporation in Austin. One thing they specifically told me: "Be bubbly! They're going to ask you a question that's about empathy, and then how to put together a PB&J sandwich. Here is how you answer it...."
I thought that was wierd, but I listened and decided to take them at their word.
So I show up, we're given this big thirty minute intro that lays out, no absences, no tardys, no tests below 80% or your assignment ends. I begin to have second thoughts about this job compared to AwesomeJob, which is pretty Awesome.
So I take their little test, and wait my turn for the interview that I had rehearsed that previous Wednesday. I get called in, and the interviewer grades my paper right there and then. I make a joke that I have a sore throat and we both laugh. He asks me about AwesomeJob, which is pretty Awesome, and he takes a few notes. Asks me about my history, and I'm as "bubbly" as my throat will let me be.
He makes a few notes, and I'm waiting for the interview to "begin." This all seems more like getting to know you banter. He says "Do you have anything in the other room?" and points out to where all the other applicants are, I say no. He then says "Well, if you'll follow me...."
We make for the door, and I'm guessing this is where the interview will be and instead it's a door to the outside with someone waiting. "She'll show you the way out, thanks for stopping by."
And I'm just...huh...wha?
The temp company, despite promising to call me before the end of the day, never did.
And thus ended my job search in Texas.
30 jobs applied for, three phone interviews, two face to face interviews, no jobs.
But I'm not devastated - AwesomeJob is waiting for me in Seattle. I'll come back on my raise, hopefully some good hours, and to good friends. It's just....just that it's not home. And that just eats away at my soul.
We'll try again next year.