OMG Quick advice please pretty please??

[rinoared]

I sent an application for what amounts to freelance translating job.

I got an answer that amounts to "Your application was very good, but we feel the irregular hours wouldn't work with your current location". I live <1h commute away. A commute I have done on more or less regular basis for my studies for five years now

Comments

[pennypaperbrain]

Yeah, that does sound like it's intended to be a gentle letdown. But! No point wasting the chance that it might not be. So you could reply going "Thank you for considering me for the role of [whatever it was], and for informing me of your decision so promptly. If any other positions arise at [wherever] that you feel would be suitable for me, please bear me in mind. I am happy to attend [wherever] as required, as I am accustomed to making the journey for my university studies." That way they should get the message that, duh, you can commute, without feeling you're hectoring them.

[unicorn_san]

"...but we feel the irregular hours wouldn't work with your current location". I live <1h commute away."

Haw! If they think 1hr is bad, try 4hrs commute, which a few people do in our little town to work in the big city of L.A.

I get mistaken as a high schooler under 18 ditching/runaway by the police v_v; Plus my ID card is checked to see if it is a fake a few times... Plus, I was marked as the forever freshman in 2 colleges :D

[amethyst_hunter]

Eh, poke the ice. What've you got to lose?

I still get carded and I'm several months away from turning the big 3-oh. :D