Finding Stuff Montage
Searching
Last night I decided it would be good to find my portfolio to use for my interview. First I looked a few places near my desk--and found a mouse and cord to an old computer I'm getting rid of. As I carried it to the give-away pile, I wondered to myself--is this just the beginning of a huge montage of finding stuff I'm not actually looking for?
No, my portfolio was in the next place I looked--I remembered that I'd put it next to the phone to take messages in.
The Interview
The interview went fairly well. She explained so many things that she covered about half my questions. I wasn't all that great at answering her questions. (I eventually came out with a new answer to the dreaded "what's your worst quality?" sort of question--I can't think of anything that applies to this job. Like I'm not good at sales, but although it's good to explain what's good about "flags" (those traits that some courses have to have), there's no pressure to get people to buy things they don't want.) But then I asked a nice pile of questions that did give her an idea of what I'm like.
I didn't resort to the revenge question I had thought up--if this job were a fruit, which fruit would it be? (Actually, I thought of an even better one I can no longer remember--it was similarly useless but with a really annoying follow-up question.)
I remembered to ask about the next step. She has interviews today and plans to bring in two candidates to meet with a committee of five people (all of whom she had talked about during the interview). She wants to get the new person started very quickly.
Other Campus Job
I stopped by my old bosses' office again on my way home to tell her again that I'd been overpaid and ask if she might want me again. (She reserved me for 20 hours/week for this month but has not needed me, but might be about to hire a new person who she'd like me to train.)
This time she was in her office. So the plan is that she is going to officially end my appointment at the end of last month so that I don't get any more paychecks. And the new person will start on the 21st, so I can pay back those extra 12 hours I paid for by training her.
Other Job
I have not heard anything from my tax prep boss, but I did get a copy of the requested "credit report." Actually it just showed that my Social Security number was wrong. And who's Social Security number that was. They didn't show the whole number (or even the part that's different from mine), but they did show the name(s) of the person whose number that is and I remember what my typo was. Crazy--that name is none of my business.
Last night I decided it would be good to find my portfolio to use for my interview. First I looked a few places near my desk--and found a mouse and cord to an old computer I'm getting rid of. As I carried it to the give-away pile, I wondered to myself--is this just the beginning of a huge montage of finding stuff I'm not actually looking for?
No, my portfolio was in the next place I looked--I remembered that I'd put it next to the phone to take messages in.
The Interview
The interview went fairly well. She explained so many things that she covered about half my questions. I wasn't all that great at answering her questions. (I eventually came out with a new answer to the dreaded "what's your worst quality?" sort of question--I can't think of anything that applies to this job. Like I'm not good at sales, but although it's good to explain what's good about "flags" (those traits that some courses have to have), there's no pressure to get people to buy things they don't want.) But then I asked a nice pile of questions that did give her an idea of what I'm like.
I didn't resort to the revenge question I had thought up--if this job were a fruit, which fruit would it be? (Actually, I thought of an even better one I can no longer remember--it was similarly useless but with a really annoying follow-up question.)
I remembered to ask about the next step. She has interviews today and plans to bring in two candidates to meet with a committee of five people (all of whom she had talked about during the interview). She wants to get the new person started very quickly.
Other Campus Job
I stopped by my old bosses' office again on my way home to tell her again that I'd been overpaid and ask if she might want me again. (She reserved me for 20 hours/week for this month but has not needed me, but might be about to hire a new person who she'd like me to train.)
This time she was in her office. So the plan is that she is going to officially end my appointment at the end of last month so that I don't get any more paychecks. And the new person will start on the 21st, so I can pay back those extra 12 hours I paid for by training her.
Other Job
I have not heard anything from my tax prep boss, but I did get a copy of the requested "credit report." Actually it just showed that my Social Security number was wrong. And who's Social Security number that was. They didn't show the whole number (or even the part that's different from mine), but they did show the name(s) of the person whose number that is and I remember what my typo was. Crazy--that name is none of my business.