The Grind Grinds On -
The Grind Grinds On - Another job interview today. Nothing special -just another recruiter. I had a slew of interviews with this type last winter, when I was first on the beach; recruiters and "staffers" were collecting resumes, getting ready for the pickup in hiring...
...that they're still waiting for.
But I'm going, because it keeps my interviewing chops in shape (practice makes perfect), and because you never know which recruiter or headhunter or guy sitting next to you at Khan's for that matter is going to be the one with the job that finally ends the drought. My first-ever good job in software design came from a recruiter that had no idea what a software designer was when we met at a job fair - we barely spoke. But six months later, she had a one-off request for a GUI designer from a client that had been buying nothing but Java geeks and electrical engineers, and she spent a frantic few moments digging for my business card. A month later, and I was off to the races.
I only say that by way of hoping that I get some of that karma going pretty soon here. I've been through most of the stages of unemployment;
- anger,
- financial panic,
- coping,
- existential panic,
- existential coping,
- anger at the gabbling cretins that make so many decisions that affect your life, like the passive-aggressive little twerp at A_____ _______ that showed up an hour late for my interview and then proceeded to spend most of our talk staring at his cell phone, and who will get his spine cut with a bolt cutter if he ever comes into my offic...
- calming down
- coping, yet a-farging-gain, and, right now,
- mild depression.
I'm sure it'll pass soon.
Anyway - back with more later!
Posted by Mitch at
June 18, 2003 11:13 AM
