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irritatedTopic: General
Well three members of the family are job hunting. Incredulously it may be Joe that lands a job first. McDonalds in New Lebanon has an interest in him. He has a work permit and physical and will go back in and talk the manager a second time. Not bad for a rookie. But then Joe has always been a smooth talker.
Chelsea may have a cherry job as a librarian lined up. Part time, second shift, almost like they designed it for a college student. Pays OK too. She has experience from working the library at Sinclair College, when she spoke with them they were definitely interested and she is the only experienced person that applied so far.
With my job search I have to sit back and think to an episode of the Simpson's. There is a scene is which Homer says, 'I know that there is god because he is mocking me.' And boy, that is the way I feel right now. Have had two seemingly home runs that curved foul at the last instant. One was for a developer/application administrator position in a small 9 person IT department. But the guys calls back after the interview with good news/bad news. I was the leading candidate, but the managment changed in the last 30 days since the positon posted. With the economy, they aren't doing anything until maybe this winter. I told the guy thanks, but I hoped to have another job by then. So that was a whiff.
The second position was as a software engineer with a subsidiary of LexisNexis in Boca Raton. With the hurricane zigzagging across the state, it was difficult to get back with the manager. They closed early one day, opened 2 hours late another. We finally got in contact. No hiring now because of the recent merger with the other risk company - choicepoint I think is the name. They have to wait and evaluate what positions are still needed, etc. Again I was the leading candidate, so another long ball curves foul.
Have had some other interviews. By now I should feel like an expert. But I am getting weary of the process. I identify with the olympic athletes. Their careers are a life's work and in a few seconds or a few minutes - a life's work is decided in an instant. Gold, Silver, or someone left lying in the dust. All the work leading up to that moment is not accountable, it is how you perform at that instant. Mess up an interview, stumble over a few words, give a wrong answer and 18 years of experience amounts to nothing.
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