What to do when you don't like your options?
In my first three days of unemployment I had three interviews. The first was a challenging career forming type of position, for which I have the perfect education and working history to succeed. They seemed very interested in me, but the only problem was that I had a very low level interest in working there. If I called them up and said I really wanted to work there I could start in the next couple of weeks. But the last thing I want to do is get roped into another job that I am not happy in to obtain some sort of short term stability. Then on Tuesday I interviewed at a company that does the exact same thing I was doing at my old job. But in this case I was most likely going to be thrown at the bottom of the deck and left starting over. As I pondered over my future, I decided that it would be a good idea to go out on Tuesday night despite having a phone interview the next morning (it was my 25th birthday). At last glance I saw 4:50 gleaming from my alarm clock. I had set my cell phone alarm at some point during the night to my great dissatisfaction as I rolled over the next morning. I fell out of bed and took a shower and ate in a feeble attempt to sober up. During the twenty minutes of the phone interview, the only thought that flowed through my mind was 'don't let them know you are still drunk.' Despite what I believed to a be a decent performance, the job was offering phone support at a call center. I didn't even know that those types of jobs were still available in this country. I guess I figured that all those jobs had been outsourced to India. So at the end of the steps i took to find a new job I was left with a bunch of opportunities that I had little to no interest in. If only I could find a way to get this severance to extend for the rest of the summer, I would be set.
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