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Myrina

(12,296 posts)
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 10:17 AM Jun 2013

Ok, my turn: job interview tomorrow!

Could use some mo, please

It's the phone interview portion (step 1) for a project mgmt gig at a small insurance company.
In-person's are Thurs/Fri and then a 'formality' meeting with the CIO early next week.

I realized - and have kicked myself in the ass daily - that I should have JUMPED on that job offer that I had in April and didn't take.
Exciting? No, not particularly, but it's what I know how to do, and what I do well. And it would have gotten me the hell out of here!

So, this gig is the same type of thing which will probably bore me silly in a year but I need to buy time to come up with a long-term plan to relocate which includes exploring where I want to go, saving dough, and looking into other career options.

This contracting gig isn't cutting it - I know absolutely nothing about app dev/dba (and told him so in the interview!) and am not wired for it. I'm much more a project/organizing/interacting type of person and the thought of learning this code-shit drives me nuts.

I have literally spent 35 of 40 hours every week for the last 8 months surfing the web here. Nothing else I can do. Not a human being around (except for the Tea Party nutbag who sits slurping his coffee and moaning/grunting all day with his smelly bare feet emananting from the cube next door).

So, yeah. I could use some mo. Thanks!

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Ok, my turn: job interview tomorrow! (Original Post) Myrina Jun 2013 OP
good vibes headed your way, Myrina... magical thyme Jun 2013 #1
Here's to a step towards a new beginning. southerncrone Jun 2013 #2
Woohoo! Sweet Freedom Jun 2013 #3
Step 1: Yowzah! Myrina Jun 2013 #5
You'll do fine!! Sweet Freedom Jun 2013 #6
Sounds pretty sweet. southerncrone Jun 2013 #7
You gots my vibes Habibi Jun 2013 #4
Thanks everyone -- Round 2 tomorrow afternoon! Myrina Jun 2013 #8
 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
1. good vibes headed your way, Myrina...
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 10:40 AM
Jun 2013

Mojo, positive energy, whatever it takes to free you from your crappy contracting gig onto a stepping stone forward on your path!

southerncrone

(5,510 posts)
2. Here's to a step towards a new beginning.
Mon Jun 10, 2013, 05:27 PM
Jun 2013

Hope this manifests for you. Sometimes boring is good, especially when you need to do other things on the side (exploring location & other career options).
Don't hold back, you never know what might be behind Door #2 or where it might lead! At least it might not have smelly feet or teabags behind it! LOL

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
5. Step 1: Yowzah!
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 01:15 PM
Jun 2013

It was pretty intense - "Please give me examples of times in your career you've worked within the specific stages of the SDLC."



Can't imagine what the 'in person' will be like.

But if I get it, it will be SO worth it! Back on a career-ish path, doing what I like to do & am good at every day (documenting, training, organizing), pulling down excellent money, and working for a small-ish company less than 3 miles from home!! Breathing room to plan for the future! YAY!!!

Interesting tidbit ... my first job here in Indy in 1998 paid $18,500 a year. In 15 years, should I get this job, I will have almost quadrupled that. Insane. Looking back on it, how the hell did I (we, actually, I'm a single mom) survive on $18k/yr? Goddess, people are so underpaid in this country.

Sweet Freedom

(3,998 posts)
6. You'll do fine!!
Tue Jun 11, 2013, 02:56 PM
Jun 2013

You survived this and probably came across very well.

Okay, fingers still crossed. Let us know how the next phase goes, because 3 miles away sounds like a great commute to me!

Myrina

(12,296 posts)
8. Thanks everyone -- Round 2 tomorrow afternoon!
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 02:01 PM
Jun 2013

I'm not nervous, and that makes me nervous.
Knowing how she hit me with the tech questions yesterday, I can only imagine her getting even deeper into geek-speak at tomorrow's meeting. There's only so much I can do on the fly.

But oh well. It's gonna be what it's gonna be.


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