In a word: job \o/
I have fic deadlines so I do have to be brief but yaaay I have a job :D It's the one I was called in for the second interview for. It's part time, three full days a week (the days I'm not at school), at a smallish but successful start-up online marketing company in Tel Aviv. The job itself is in 'operations and support', which means background technical work, and I am so very fine with that. The pay is good as far as part-time jobs for humanities students go, so above minimum :-), and I think (I hope!) the taxes will be balanced by the fact that I will finally have a workplace paying for my social security instead of paying it myself. The guy in charge of me was not introduced as a boss or a manager but as a "guy in charge of me", lol, and he seemed really nice and open, and most of all I think this is going to be a nice working environment. Most of the employees are in their late-twenties, and the company is located in a nice business district that has lots of great restaurants, and the hours are 10-7 which is great for non-early risers like I prefer to be :D
And really, I'm counting on the people working there to be nice. Let's just say that the in the interview for the other job I was interviewing for -- a secretarial position for a big investment company -- one of the questions I was asked was, "How would you react if someone yelled at you?". Here, the guy was all, "You can come to me with any questions, any problems you're having, anything that's on your mind, and if there's anything you want to learn more about for your general enrichment we'll schedule time to go over it because this really is a great place to learn about the business. :D :D!"
I start on Tuesday, so we will see how it goes :-)
In completely other news, I spent half the day with a tight ball of sympathy-stress in my stomach over something my sister's going through/gotten in trouble over in the army, ARGH. It sucks so much that she's having a crappy time in her service. Like, the military counts on 18 years of patriotic education to motivate people into serving and putting the life on the line for what amounts to about $2 a day for 2 or 3 years, and if not that, than at least having an interesting job and working with good people until your time is up, and definitely on making people think that what they're doing is truly important. And it sucks so much when you don't like your job and hate your boss and don't like the people you're with and you want to contribute but you just don't think you're doing anything important at all and neither does anyone else, but you have to keep going every day for two years because the alternative is JAIL. And what really sucks is that she's waiting for her transfer request to go through so she's in limbo for a few months and we'll see where that goes, but the only advice she's getting now is "Okay, your commander's a dick, but if you want to make it through the next year and a half suck it up and play nice because he's got the weight of the system behind him and you don't." You're in the army now, baby girl :( Awesome life lessons. But for getting through the army, they're right. I wonder sometimes about the difference between us, how easily I respected authority in the army verses how difficult it is for her. Whether it was the nature of the different jobs we had, or the fact that I'm an older sister and she's the youngest (and more spoiled and more headstrong and whatever else you can think of), or the fact that I had 12 weeks of bootcamp that kicked my ass and explained to me exactly what a military system meant, and she had, well, less. Probably a combination of all of the above, and the job description most of all. And it just, well, sucks to see someone you care about being miserable like that, and being unable to do anything about it.
In YET OTHER news, this week's TV ♥_♥. I enjoyed HIMYM so much (confession: the end made me tear up waaat?), and Friday Night Lights has been so so great this season, and this week's episode of The Good Wife, oh my god, how is this show still getting better and better? I am in love with EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. Especially this sceeeene ugh:
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Oh Brevity, my eternal nemesis. FOILED AGAIN.
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And really, I'm counting on the people working there to be nice. Let's just say that the in the interview for the other job I was interviewing for -- a secretarial position for a big investment company -- one of the questions I was asked was, "How would you react if someone yelled at you?". Here, the guy was all, "You can come to me with any questions, any problems you're having, anything that's on your mind, and if there's anything you want to learn more about for your general enrichment we'll schedule time to go over it because this really is a great place to learn about the business. :D :D!"
I start on Tuesday, so we will see how it goes :-)
In completely other news, I spent half the day with a tight ball of sympathy-stress in my stomach over something my sister's going through/gotten in trouble over in the army, ARGH. It sucks so much that she's having a crappy time in her service. Like, the military counts on 18 years of patriotic education to motivate people into serving and putting the life on the line for what amounts to about $2 a day for 2 or 3 years, and if not that, than at least having an interesting job and working with good people until your time is up, and definitely on making people think that what they're doing is truly important. And it sucks so much when you don't like your job and hate your boss and don't like the people you're with and you want to contribute but you just don't think you're doing anything important at all and neither does anyone else, but you have to keep going every day for two years because the alternative is JAIL. And what really sucks is that she's waiting for her transfer request to go through so she's in limbo for a few months and we'll see where that goes, but the only advice she's getting now is "Okay, your commander's a dick, but if you want to make it through the next year and a half suck it up and play nice because he's got the weight of the system behind him and you don't." You're in the army now, baby girl :( Awesome life lessons. But for getting through the army, they're right. I wonder sometimes about the difference between us, how easily I respected authority in the army verses how difficult it is for her. Whether it was the nature of the different jobs we had, or the fact that I'm an older sister and she's the youngest (and more spoiled and more headstrong and whatever else you can think of), or the fact that I had 12 weeks of bootcamp that kicked my ass and explained to me exactly what a military system meant, and she had, well, less. Probably a combination of all of the above, and the job description most of all. And it just, well, sucks to see someone you care about being miserable like that, and being unable to do anything about it.
In YET OTHER news, this week's TV ♥_♥. I enjoyed HIMYM so much (confession: the end made me tear up waaat?), and Friday Night Lights has been so so great this season, and this week's episode of The Good Wife, oh my god, how is this show still getting better and better? I am in love with EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. Especially this sceeeene ugh:
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Oh Brevity, my eternal nemesis. FOILED AGAIN.
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