Blaaah
The job interview was completely mortifying in a lot of ways. I got lost on my way there. I had to call them for help and was about twenty minutes late, but thankfully, they were very nice and patient about it. However, I feel like this job is way out of my league. It pays twice what I am getting paid now with immediate health benefits and such. It seemed like they wanted candidates who have had a little more autonomy at their previous jobs than I have had. They asked questions like what I have done when I've had to say no to a customer, and hell, I'm not even allowed to say no to a customer. If a customer wants something that I can't provide, I've always had to have management deal with it. And decision-making... Umm, I don't make decisions. I do as I'm told. Hearing my own answers to their questions made me feel extremely pathetic. They also seemed really quite baffled as to why someone with a 3.95 GPA wouldn't bother completing their degree. Basically, it made me feel like a complete loser.
So much driving, time and effort for complete humiliation is what it amounted to. They didn't tell me that I wouldn't get the job, but, I'm not optimistic about it, and the whole ordeal has left me rather depressed.
My new rental, however, is a Kia Spectra, and I'm loving it. My previous rental was a Nissan Sentra, which was so much bigger than what I'm used to that it felt like driving a space ship. I might consider a Kia for my next car when that time comes. My Neon is back home for the time being, though I certainly won't drive it anywhere. I am going to clean it out tonight.
In other news, I have finally jumped on the bandwagon: I am now reading Harry Potter. I'm only about sixty pages into the first book at this point, but I have the second one ready to go once I'm done with that. For a long time, I had an aversion to reading it, I guess partially because it was so popular. Also, it stuck me as somewhat... childish... from the cover illustrations and the bits that I saw of the movies. But it has become such a huge freaking cultural reference point that I've decided, hey, it might be nice to actually know what people are talking about. I hope I can get into it the way so many other people have, but I can be too harsh of a literary critic sometimes for my own good.
So much driving, time and effort for complete humiliation is what it amounted to. They didn't tell me that I wouldn't get the job, but, I'm not optimistic about it, and the whole ordeal has left me rather depressed.
My new rental, however, is a Kia Spectra, and I'm loving it. My previous rental was a Nissan Sentra, which was so much bigger than what I'm used to that it felt like driving a space ship. I might consider a Kia for my next car when that time comes. My Neon is back home for the time being, though I certainly won't drive it anywhere. I am going to clean it out tonight.
In other news, I have finally jumped on the bandwagon: I am now reading Harry Potter. I'm only about sixty pages into the first book at this point, but I have the second one ready to go once I'm done with that. For a long time, I had an aversion to reading it, I guess partially because it was so popular. Also, it stuck me as somewhat... childish... from the cover illustrations and the bits that I saw of the movies. But it has become such a huge freaking cultural reference point that I've decided, hey, it might be nice to actually know what people are talking about. I hope I can get into it the way so many other people have, but I can be too harsh of a literary critic sometimes for my own good.