Job Searching and Such

"When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself." ~Unknown

I’ve neglected my writing for a few months now. I really need to get back into the habit. I have a lot of things to blame, but none of them really are real reason. The truth is that I’ve been lazy as of late. However, I am going to try and change that. I moved back home to my parent’s place. It isn’t too bad, but I am ready to have my own place again. I know it has to be hard on them as well. If we didn’t have a basement, I’m not sure how this would work.

We went to Mexico and had a wonderful time. We went snorkeling on a catamaran and took a day trip to Chichen Itza. It was nice and everyone had a good time seeing the ruins. The resort we stayed at was very nice and we all had fun swimming, drinking, lounging on the beach, eating dinner as a big group and just relaxing. It was a nice way to end a chapter of my life. I think saying goodbye to my friends and Manny would have been a lot harder if I had just gone home and started life there.

I’ve been home for over a month now and it isn’t too bad. I’ve been looking for jobs in the newspaper everyday and nothing is really coming of it. My aunt called me two weeks ago and told me that the marketing girl for the company quit and that they were looking to replace her. My aunt gave me a number to call and to set up an interview. Well, it seemed weird to me at the time, but I ended up having an interview with my aunt. I don’t imagine that happens too often in companies. I interviewed with her on a Tuesday and she told me to tell her by the end of the week if I wanted the position. I got the impression from her the position was mine if I wanted it.

Well, I thought about it and called her on Thursday to tell her I would like to do a ride along before I made a decision, but I was thinking the company would be a good fit for me. The woman I first talked to had told me that I would have to do a ride along before I interviewed. Basically a ride along would be me going out into the field with them to see how the set up their product in a client’s home and such. Well, I didn’t hear back from my aunt on Thursday or Friday. My mother flew in from Asia on Saturday, hung out with the folks for a bit and then headed up to Uni to visit friends before Gina left.

Had a great time with everyone and actually got to see Charles. He was in town and we smoked the Hookah and talked for a while. I finally got to see his new car, 1985 red Corvette Convertable. Very nice and smokin’ hot. I told him we should have sex on the hood of the car, however, other stuff came up and we didn’t have time. 🙂

Well, got back to my folk’s place early Sunday evening and their was a message on the machine from my aunt. She left a message about a job fair in town for bilingual people and she said she would call me on Monday regarding the job. I should have seen it then, but I guess she was being too subtle for me.

Monday came and went and no call from my aunt. Seemed a bit odd to me, but thought that maybe she was just really busy. Well, yesterday I called her at work and asked if we could schedule a ride along if that was still possible and she informed me that they had hired someone with more experience who was a friend of her boss. That’s when everything started to fit together. I felt so dense. My aunt apologized and I told her not to worry about it and that it was part of life. I didn’t have the experience and we take our loses and move on. I didn’t let her know how annoyed I was about this whole experience. I just pretended it was no big deal.

After I got off of the phone, I started thinking about it. My aunt is a 41 year old woman is is afraid of conflict to the point that she would rather avoid people than tell them what the situation is. I also realized that if she were to be my boss, that could be a major problem. So for as much as it sucked for me to get my hopes up about a job and moving out, I realized that this could have been a bad job. That and when you mix family with work, things can get really hairy.

I had a job interview on Monday, but I’m not sure how that went. We shall see; they have yet to call me back, but I am keeping my fingers crossed. I’ve basically told myself that I’m not getting the job, that way it doesn’t hurt so much when they call me and tell me that they have picked someone else. I know this all sounds kind of depressing, and it is, but something will come along and when it does, I’ll be ready for it.