Well, since being invited by DJ to be awesome, I have been under a weight—what a thing to live up to! And how does one set about being awesome? Most of the people I know who are awesome didn’t set out to be awesome, they set out to do something else and became awesome in the process, if seems. However, I have done something recently which is awesome, at least for me.
When I came to this company, I was only planning to stay in my position a half a year or a year and then move on in the company to a position better suited to what I really wanted to do. But then 9/11 happened and it seems I have been stuck in the same position for the past six years. There hasn’t even really been opportunities to move anywhere while the company was in the survival mode.
But this past year, positions have been coming available and I have applied for a few—none very enthusiastically. Until the week before last, when I read the posting of the perfect position for me. Since that time, I have single-mindedly devoted myself to landing this job, including learning who the hiring director is and quietly but insistently making myself known to him by delivering my resume to him personally rather than waiting for HR personnel to do it. I am giving myself an overhaul in the wardrobe department, doing research to brush up in areas where I might be a little deficit, and doing practice interview techniques with my current supervisor to get ready for the interview. So far, I haven’t been invited to interview, but I am going to be ready when the invitation comes!
