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Survived... for now
As none of you knew, I had a job interview today. For the tech job that I have been temping for on and off the past year -- the one that would be uber-perfect for me to have and that I love beyond all comprehension. It was a now-it's-here, now-it's-not, now-it's-back-again type position that the school board finally settled on being needed. The applications were due on Dec. 8th and I was called in for an interview today.
I have told exactly three people about the job, the application and the interview because I stress enough without people wanting to talk to me about it. I like to have everything figured out and firmly under control before I talk to others about. When I'm stressed about something, talking about it always makes it worse.
That, and the fact that Myria still doesn't know that there is a job opening. The kid has more than enough to worry about without adding the possiblity of me not getting a perfect job. NOTE: for those of you reading who know my daughter, please do not mention this to her. Thank you.
I won't know anything until after the New Year. And I still don't want to talk about it -- either how wonderful it would be to have it or how tragic it will be for me not to get it. Or even how it doesn't matter one way or the other....
*deep breath*
As you can see, I still don't have a clear handle on how I feel about it. So, I will ignore it.
The interview went well. Three of the four interviewers were from the tech department and were guys I've worked with and greatly like. I don't have the educational credentials to nail the job, but I do have the work experiance and know how. They may be able to find a better "qualified" person but they won't find one who could do the job better.
They asked all the typical interview questions and some general ones about the systems. Some of them were hard to answer because they were so damn open "How have you instructed people about networks in the past"? When I asked for claification on that, Brian goes "It's kind of a generic question". DUH. That's no help. I babbled something that included the hardware aspects and helping people know what was and wasn't available when they weren't connected to the network. The whole interview was all kind of that way. I kept thinking that there was a secret code that I wasn't in on.
The "what is your strongest and weakest points"-type question was there, of course. I did fine on that one, I think. My strongest asset is that I love technology and love to learn all the ins and outs of the new things so I have a diverse knowledge of a great many things, my greatest drawback is that because I like all the new stuff so much, I tend not to have indepth knowledge of any one thing. Everything is so cool and interesting that I have a hard time focusing on one thing, even if that one thing would help me out.
Heh. It only makes sense because that is both the strength and weakness of my entire life.
I have told exactly three people about the job, the application and the interview because I stress enough without people wanting to talk to me about it. I like to have everything figured out and firmly under control before I talk to others about. When I'm stressed about something, talking about it always makes it worse.
That, and the fact that Myria still doesn't know that there is a job opening. The kid has more than enough to worry about without adding the possiblity of me not getting a perfect job. NOTE: for those of you reading who know my daughter, please do not mention this to her. Thank you.
I won't know anything until after the New Year. And I still don't want to talk about it -- either how wonderful it would be to have it or how tragic it will be for me not to get it. Or even how it doesn't matter one way or the other....
*deep breath*
As you can see, I still don't have a clear handle on how I feel about it. So, I will ignore it.
The interview went well. Three of the four interviewers were from the tech department and were guys I've worked with and greatly like. I don't have the educational credentials to nail the job, but I do have the work experiance and know how. They may be able to find a better "qualified" person but they won't find one who could do the job better.
They asked all the typical interview questions and some general ones about the systems. Some of them were hard to answer because they were so damn open "How have you instructed people about networks in the past"? When I asked for claification on that, Brian goes "It's kind of a generic question". DUH. That's no help. I babbled something that included the hardware aspects and helping people know what was and wasn't available when they weren't connected to the network. The whole interview was all kind of that way. I kept thinking that there was a secret code that I wasn't in on.
The "what is your strongest and weakest points"-type question was there, of course. I did fine on that one, I think. My strongest asset is that I love technology and love to learn all the ins and outs of the new things so I have a diverse knowledge of a great many things, my greatest drawback is that because I like all the new stuff so much, I tend not to have indepth knowledge of any one thing. Everything is so cool and interesting that I have a hard time focusing on one thing, even if that one thing would help me out.
Heh. It only makes sense because that is both the strength and weakness of my entire life.