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I got pretty nervous and I just don’t think I really highlighted my skills and expertise well enough.
I mean it wasn’t a disaster, maybe I did better than I think but I was so friggin’ nervous! The interview was before a panel of six people! In a small dark room with no windows, and there was one person who would ask a question and then time my responses (5 min time limit).
Who wouldn’t find that nerve wracking, right??

The job and I are a great match but I’m just not sure I communicated that effectively because I was so nervous and didn’t project confidence in my own abilities.
Sigh… I guess I’ll have to wait and see but I don’t feel too positive about it right now. 2 weeks ago

A job interview for Friday at 10 am has been set up at a local group home. :D 3 weeks ago

Well it went titts-up. A few of us lost out jobs a week or so into the New Year with the reasoning of ‘budgets’. It might be me being slightly jaded but it seems convenient how the jobs were there prior to xmas (at the start of the companies peak period) and disappeared come NY (at the end of it).

The bugga of it is there was no notice given, so am now having to look for another job and hopefully get summut quick smartish! Am not too worried about what I do, so am once again applying for anything and anything.

Am quite positive about it in many ways, as it is giving me a moment to get the decorating sorted, catch up on the cleaning and sorting and spend some time with the children as due to the amount of hours/shifts the company ended up having me do was a bit daft. So overall a bit of a downer in some ways but, also a plus in others. 3 weeks ago

For a job Doing web work. That’d be cool. I’m not quite so unhappy at my current job anymore; but this job possibility is exciting and may afford me the opportunity to learn and grow more than what I’m doing now. 4 weeks ago

I got a response today that I did not get the position. I am a little disappointed, but I’m not giving up on this goal. 1 month ago

Definitely an upgrade from the previous job but now I need to find one in the medical field… 1 month ago

Good: Tried to do some research by calling up a friend who works in that department; found out he will be on the interview panel when I checked his online schedule.

Bad: There are 6 candidates for the position not 3 as previously thought.

Good: Bought a new suit jacket to wear to the interview.

Bad: It is a bit too large and haven’t found someone yet to alter it on short notice. (Haven’t needed to wear a suit in about 4 years.)

Good: I will be the 2nd to the last candidate to be interviewed.

Bad: I have to go to the dentist that morning to get a crown and not sure if my mouth will still be numb. 1 month ago

Turned out what I thought was my first interview was only a writing test a week ago, and today I got a call that I will be coming back for one of 3 candidates for a formal interview on Tuesday December 20. Unfortunately that is the same day I am getting a crown done by my dentist in the morning. I wonder how my interview is going to go if I have cotton mouth. Things happen for a reason, even through it seems really bizarre at the moment. 2 months ago

With all the other things going on with my life, it seems strange that I am looking for another job, but it’s true. The job I applied for a month ago wants to interview me on Thursday. Of course I will be going to the interview, but I have mixed feelings whether I really do want to switch jobs now except for the fact that earning more money would be nice. Wish me luck. 2 months ago

I don’t know WHAT I want to do. Be a freelance designer? Be a writer? Learn more web stuff so I can make more money at an office job? Be a photographer… freelance or regular gig? Go back to school for something totally new and different?

I’m great at going after what I want, once I know what that is. I can easily map out a plan for accomplishing it and then take the steps to get there. But when I don’t know what it is that I want, it makes getting it really difficult. Or impossible.

I JUST DON’T. KNOW.
And I don’t know how to figure it out, either. 2 months ago

I am literally right back where I was in Nov of 2007. The place I was writing about before shut down and I went back to my old job. It’s a job I DO NOT like. I’m so bored here.
So, looks like this is back on the list. Again. 2 months ago

Well I have managed to get myself another job. Is slightly less hours, but they are set ones and I now get my weekends back HAZAA. The wages are a tad on the hootle side too so it pans out a bit with the drop in workin days.

Only been doing it for a couple of days and so far so good. It is busy, I don’t have people screeching at me every two seconds that they ‘don’t want to do blah blah!’ or swearing at me because of their condition or being put into unsafe environments.
It is literally just around the corner so I don’t have far to travel, am even able to walk it on really dodgy weather days and I am in one place so am not trekkin all over the place. There is plenty of overtime available (which with xmas just around the bend, debts to clear, bills to pay and growing sprogs to provide for is fab).

In truth it is not what I wanted to do with the rest of my life and had thought I had been able to get away from doing this type of work, but tbh I am good at it and am trained to do it but since my ideal and dream vocation has been removed from my plan due to life throwing me one of those nasty curve balls I am gonna see where this takes me and hopefully enjoy every moment while doing so.

If it turns into a completely pants experience then it shall simply become something to go on the CV while I am lookng for that job to make me happy and not just to pay the bills. 3 months ago