Who am I up against?

It’s nice to get a job interview and all, but it’s been three years since my last job interview and I feel I’m pretty rusty.  Luckily this job’s website has a section for how to prepare for the interview, so I’ve pretty much been reading that over and over.  When it comes down to it, I just know I’m gunna get asked a question that’ll I’ll get stuck on – not cos I can’t answer it but cos I’m nervous.  It’s so stupid.  There’s this mystical monster that comes associated with job interviews.

It doesn’t help that my best friend went for a high-class position within the corporate world and nailed the interview.  He’s real intelligent and doesn’t get nervous at all and was even rattling off some of the questions they asked him when I was hanging out with him. 

In my mind, I tell myself, "Just waltz on in there, big smile and genuine greeting and tell yourself everything is fine and just offer what you can." – that’s how Matt justifies these things in his head.  When in reality, I’ll get there in the morning, all jittery outside in the probable cold and rain (judging from the weather forecast), a car will go past and saturate my clothes in water, I’ll walk in looking like a drowned rat and I’ll sit there with a ‘AH DUHHHH!!!’ look on my face because I won’t even be able to answer a simple question like, "Why do you wanna work here?" – which I’m assuming will probably be one of them.

I hope the interviewer is nice.  That’s my main concern.  If she’s not, I guess I’ll still try to do my best – not that I like the idea of working for a complete cow 😛  But the email I got says that I’ll be interviewed by a lady.  The website says that sometimes there are two interviews – one with a recruitment specialist manager and then one with the store manager of the site you’re applying for.  Well this will be my first interview and I’m sure it’s at the store I’ve applied for.

I guess the good thing is I only have to walk down there tomorrow morning.  I’ve already set my alarm and will try to get an early night.  You’d think at this stage of my life, I’d be used to stuff like this.  I just wish there were no right or wrong answers, and just honest ones, which are what I’m going to give her.  I just hope my brain doesn’t fail me and that I’ll be able to rattle them off as she asks them.  Nothing worse than a complete silence after an interview question, which has happened to me before.  Thankfully, that didn’t hinder me from gaining my previous employment, although that was with the store owner and not some recruitment specialist.

I have no idea how many people have applied, although it was nice to get an email offering me an interview within a few days of seeing the ad.  I wish other places would do that! Grrr.  So hopefully thats means not a hundred people applied in the few days the ad was up, but you know, I guess that’s why they interview people – to find the best candidate.

Positives:  My customer service, helfulness and friendliness.  Negatives:  My age and not knowing a God-damn thing about alcohol lol, except the absolute basics.  If she asks me the difference between a savignon-blanc and a pinot, I wouldn’t have a damn clue lol.  I actually just googled it but it’s still a bit foreign to me, but on a forum I saw that someone who works at a BWS already didn’t need to know about alcohol and learned on the job, which is what I want to do.

Still, this whole meeting a scary new person and answering questions challenging the skills I have all seems a bit daunting and I guess the only way to see how I go is to be brave and walk on in there.  It’s only a half hour out of my day really, and if I fail miserably, it’s not the end of the world because I’d prefer other positions.  Ahhh, I hate feeling like this.  Feeling like this makes me just wanna stay in a job for good so I don’t have to deal with this feeling ever again haha.  Despite the job not being ideal, although potentially fun, I still wanna be able to do well in the interview and let them see I’m a good person and good for the business.

Oh… and of COURSE I have a motherfucking sore-as upper leg for some God-damn reason and a pimple the size of a house has decided to make residence on the side of my nose… AND it feels like I’m finally catching this nasty winter cough that’s going around – grrrrr I bloody hope not.

I still walked to gym and back today, even with the sore leg.  I have no idea what I did to it or how I hurt it but it appears to be more my lower left buttock, but it makes it feel like my leg.  I’ve been trying to massage it all day, even whilst walking along but it just hurts.
My workout was a hell of an effort today too.  I just felt like I had such little energy.  I guess that’s what I get for not having a decent breakfast cos I’ve run out of cereal.
I must say however, when I changed back into my shirt from my singlet after the workout, I really liked how my chest looked under the light in their bathrooms.  I guess the colour must be slightly different in mine lol.  i thought to myself, "Who would’ve thought you’d have had a chest two years ago?"

I wonder who I’m up against?