Good Lord. Way to bounce back Trip.
Yeah, no kiddin'!
I was imagining some horrible, long and drawn out search for a job where we can't get by on just the unemployment checks, having to declare bankruptcy and the marriage falling apart under the pressure, etc.
Can't make a promise about the marriage, mine ain't doing so good either, Hulk, so you have my biggest sympathies, but I don't think bankruptcy is going to be the ending of this part of my life story.
I am so relieved. I hate looking for work, even though I've usually not had problems finding jobs. I'm either lucky or act way more confident than I feel.
I was completely surprised when he offered me the job. He said it so casually, he said, 'Can you start on the 17th of August?'
I think I blinked, because right before that he said something like, 'I'm not sure about this job for you, but I'm going to take you on your word that you can handle it.'
This Tech Support manager is young enough to be my son and was surprised when I defended myself when he said "I'm not sure you can handle this job."
It was the weirdest job interview I've ever had and I hadn't even thought I was going in for an interview, I was there for a job fair for a customer service job.
There were openings for tech support but the HR manager said they wouldn't be looking at the applications for that job until the end of the week, once they'd filled the customer service jobs.
Both pay the same, so I was like I'll see how this goes and went to the job fair. I thought I was just going to be screened to see if I qualified for a second, more in depth interview.
The women who was talking to me first took one look at my resume and said, "Do you really want a customer service job?"
I said, "I just want a job, and I think I could do a good job in customer service, but Techical Support is probably a better fit."
She went to go get one of the Tech Support managers and he was, oddly enough, wearing an Uncle Sam outfit. (That's a story in and of itself.)
So, I talked to this kid that was probably 26 if he was a day and he was looking at this old lady, probably thinking I'm crazy for thinking I could actually be qualified for a job in tech support.
I told him that's what the other place thought, yet I held my own. I'm smart and learn fast.
So, seeing the skepticism on his face, I countered that I may be old enough to be his mom, but I know I'm smarter than most people and I've been doing this a long time. I can certainly pick up what I don't already know and I know a lot about computers already, just never worked with cellular modems before.
He still looked skeptical, even while wearing his cheap Halloween costume shop Uncle Sam suit, so I was surprised he hired me. Although, I think it probably had helped that he had been impressed by my job at HP when I explained what I'd done there.
Anyway, it was probably the weirdest interview I'd ever had and I got a job so soon after losing my last one. It was surprising even to me.
I probably should have bought a lottery ticket yesterday.
LOL!
Oh, well.
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