I have a semi-unsolicited job interview in about an hour, at a place where I would be proud to answer the phones and make the coffee, even if it didn't mean a significant raise in pay. Nevertheless, I have mixed feelings about the entire business, stemming from the fact that I--a girl who will have to begin repaying her student loans this month--currently work for peanuts with extremely cool people at a place that I love most of the time. The happy byproduct of my ambivalence is that I just ate lunch without the slightest hint of a gag reflex. Yay if I get the job, yay if I don't. So I'm not nervous.
Time to make myself pretty and go have a conversation with someone's assistant.
Time to make myself pretty and go have a conversation with someone's assistant.
posted by Amber at 1:56 PM
5 Comments:
OOOH...Fingers crossed for the best outcome for you.
P.S.
At least your boss didn't have a fondness for THE CHIMPMONKS CHRISTMAS.
Yah.
I loved Borders, but I wanted to put a fork in my eye.
Can't wait to meet you next week!
man it's so unfair at job interview time. It's biased for you women. YOU can make yourselves pretty...when men try that...well, eyeliner just doesn't go with a suit and tie, you know?
I'm looking forward to meeting you, too, Loralee! It'll be a good time.
Well, How did it go?
The interview went okay. I blanked badly on one question, badly enough that we had to come back to it later, and when we came back to it, I had an example, but a lame one. She concluded the interview by describing the job as unchallenging and sometimes boring, and flat out asked me, with a lot of doubt in her voice, whether this really sounded like something I was interested in, given my education and accomplishments and goals. I answered, pretty convincingly I thought, that I would love to be affiliated with the organization in any way at all. Which is true, to an extent. It's not as large of a pay raise as I thought I remembered, and I am happy in my current job. So I'm still pretty apathetic about the idea of getting hired at this new place.
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