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[Trek420]

More details I guess:

On the Friday interview I'm on a short list of 4 candidates. Two are from NYC and my potential maybe someday future boss said he's not confident they will relocate (then why apply? I don't get it ), the other is a local gal.

I'm the only one he's gonna meet!

My "competition" will "meet" him over the phone, even local gal. He says he wants to do a 2nd interview over the phone in 2 weeks (so now that's next week). I'm cautiously optimistic but anything can happen. Sometimes in this process the Persimmon Processing Plant I work for has even withdrawn the opening at the last minute So as someone said here the only thing I want to share is that I got a job.

The U is notoriously slow to decide and could respond whenevah.

[Pax]

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The U is notoriously slow to decide and could respond whenevah.

I swear, they act like you're interviewing for the freaking FBI or something. You already do the dang job, have done the job well for a zillion years. Idiots.

[Crankin]

First week is done.
Oy, I feel pretty incompetent. Spent 3 hours today doing a family intake where the main issue is a 4 year old who is ADHD, probably ODD, and running the family ragged. He already is getting mandated special ed preschool and had early intervention. I can see what the mom's issues are, but I am out of my league with a 4 year old. I am going to recommend exercise for this kid, for sure... he climbed up on the chair I was on, got behind me and was clutching onto my neck. He undoes the seatbelt on his car booster seat, runs out in the street.
Well, it's an interesting family and case and there's lots of intergenerational support.
Drinking a glass of wine and putting off doing any more work.

[crazycanuck]

Crankin, i dearly wish you all the best with that...wow...THen again, that's what you went to uni for & you know you have what it takes to assist the family

Anywho...have i mentioned how much i love my dear man. He's been super helpful with carrying heavy stuff for me the past few days..He set up the bike trainer before he left to do some trail maintenance. He had to push the shopping trolley & put all the stuff in the car last night...

He rolled his eyes when he realized he'll have to carry our two rollable luggage bags on our upcoming trip...oops...

[DebW]

Yeah for New York! In a mere 30 days, the number of US citizens living in states without marriage discrimination will double.

Knott, it will get better. A new job for Trek is just around the corner.

[KnottedYet]

Hooray, New York!

[Trek420]

Yeah for New York! In a mere 30 days, the number of US citizens living in states without marriage discrimination will double.

Vermont and New York? If we add the ones with civil unions and everything but the word DP won't it be 8?

A new job for Trek is just around the corner.

I'll remind the guy I interviewed with (in the polite, not nagging kind of way) of his wanting to do a phone interview next week. There's another opening at the Canned Koala Chili Cannery I work for I'm in the running for but I want the one I interviewed for. Not just because I've already interviewed but is a more interesting job at the Organic Free Range Koala Chili Canning Corp. I know, I know, Koala's are very cute but at least these are free range happy Koalas.

I dunno if it's the economy but imperceptibly things seem to be picking up. Even though I have a job and a d@mn good one when pay and bennies are concerned at the ... where am I ... Koala Chili Cannery ... I consider myself unemployed because it's not where I fracking want to be. Responses to my resume have only been for temp jobs. If I got this one I'd be replacing a temp, so is the U job replacing a temp with a perm.

That makes me nervous because Freerange Chili corp is notoriously cheap. I dunno anything about the U culture but I know Chili. Will Koala Chili go "what are we thinking? Temp is cheaper" I hope not.

Both decision makers spoke of a lot of work needing to be done and they'd pulled this and that from budget and won a new perm position.

So have I finally created the winning resume? Am I targeting the right version to the right job? Is it the "buzzwords" because face it your resume doesn't get read by a person till it's pulled out of a huge pile by software.

Or are jobs being created?

[Crankin]

The economy has definitely picked up here. Everyone I know from my grad program has a job. Granted, these are not high paying jobs, but they are professional jobs that are gateways to better ones. The recession seemed to hit only very specific industries in Boston. In the last recession, I knew quite a few high tech or other professional people who were out of work. This time, I don't know anyone who has lost a job. Even my DIL who couldn't find a job in architecture has settled in to being a restaurant manager, and she likes it.

And kudos to NY.

[Pax]

Yay for NY!!!

Trek - I think Deb is referencing population numbers, not total states... NY has a ton of people!

Knott - life will get so much sweeter when you two are under one roof permanently.

[Owlie]

YAY New York!

Ohio, sadly, hasn't really picked up. Of my friends (those who aren't in professional/graduate school), the only ones employed are the ones who studied engineering.

[KnottedYet]

Empire State building last night.

[Trek420]

So by my calculations the hiring manager said he'd be done with the first round of interviews during the week of the July 1st. I called yesterday, he said he had an interview that day and another one on Friday and then he'd be done with round one. No wonder he works in construction at the Free Range Panda Belly Chili Cannery I work for. Then he'd make his choice for round 2 and let us on the short list know. I told him I hope to hear I've made it to round 2 ... true smily face here .... frustrating.

But I'd never ever complain about work online.

[indysteel]

OMG; I thought the day would never come. My orthodontist told me today that he's planning to take my top brackets off at my next visit in three weeks' time. At the risk of jinxing this, can I just say how EXCITED I am. The bottom teeth still need a bit of work, but wow, this is big. It's been almost four years (October of 2007) since I got them, and it's been a royal pain in the teeth a good part of that time.

Getting braces was a big step for me, emotionally and physically. Beyond the fact that I badly needed them (I was a thumbsucker as a child), the fact that I didn't have them as a kid was an emotionally charged issue for me. My older siblings had them, but by the time I needed them, my parents were so self-involved and wrapped up in their own problems, that I got neglected...in more ways than one.

So, taking care of my teeth was not just an act of taking care of my adult self; I felt like I was taking care of my child self, too. I'm proud of myself for doing it. I was so afraid at the time that no one would want to date Ms. Brace Face. Those fears were silly in retrospect. Not quite a year later, I met Brian...and he married me anyway. He's never seen me without them. I sure hope we're both happy with the results, and that I don't fall face first while learning to MTB. I have $6k sunk into these teeth.

Anyway, I thought I'd share.

[Blueberry]

Yay Indy! Congratulations!!

[Catrin]

Woooohoooo Indy, that is great news!