I did it; I applied for the job. I like my current
job very much but I have gone as high as I can go. I have no retirement plan, I
have no benefits of any kind and I’m not going to be making much more money
then I currently am. But I do like the people I work with and I love my boss,
but that isn’t enough to keep you some place.
After I completed my online application I feel so
liberated, like I’m starting to mold my life into what I want it to be. The
hardest thing about applying is keeping yourself grounded. I started thinking
about shopping for new clothes and wondering who will be in my training class.
Then I have to stop myself from hoping just in case I don’t get the job.
I never know if I should tell people or not. If I
tell no one, then when I fail I don’t have to talk about it. But I started
telling my family anyway and they wished me luck. That day after work much to
my surprise I have an email and they want to set me up for a phone
interview. I felt like I was on cloud
nine I can do this.
*******
Today is my phone interview is at 9am. God I haven’t
had an interview for almost 5 years, I have always been good at interviews but
today I'm starting to doubt myself.
What if I bomb this interview?
What if I don’t know the answer?
I don’t want to have to keep looking for work?
I can’t stay at my current job?
Ok I can’t have any more coffee my brain is running
on overdrive. I have over an hour before they call I need to jump in the shower
to clear my head. After the shower I get ready for my current job sit at my
computer, open the email I received. I try to put my game face on; I sit and watches
10 minutes go by.
My phone ring and here we go.
They have scheduled me for my 2nd
interview for next Friday, I can’t stop smiling. I have just enough time to
jump in my car for work. I feel a twinge of guilt; I could be putting in my
notice soon.
*******
My alarm goes off for the 4th time, ok
I’m up. I’m going through my normal morning retain, I get Garrett ready for
school as soon as he is on the bus I start running around. Shower and get
dressed up, I haven’t put on anything nice for a long time. I’m not sure if I
like this. My stained tee shirt and jeans everyday is a good thing, I don’t
have to stop and think about what to wearing each day. I remind myself that if
I could make the same money I wouldn’t have to leave. By the time I was all dressed
I stood in front of the mirror, this will have to do.
*****
It’s do or die; I have a few minutes in my car
before I go in for the last interview. All the advice I have gotten over the
past few weeks all comes flooding back to me. I’ve got this, they will want me.
I walk into the building with my head held high and a little bounce in my step.
I hold my head out for a handshake
“Hello Chris it’s nice to meet you, I’m Amy.”
After all the question where asked and it’s felt
like I had all the right answers, I still did not know. I would be called in
the next few days. The days didn’t fly by and my confidence keep dwindling as
the timed passed. About a week later I got the much anticipated phone call.
“Welcome to the team.”
Those linked vignettes work very nicely to tell the story here and keep the pace moving right along. Your handling of the material feels very confident, very much like you had this one in hand right from the start.
ReplyDeleteVerb tenses get a little jumbled though--you start in the present, but by the last graf and in that graf in particular, you are using past, future, present--that jumble a sign that you probably would have done better to keep it consistently past tense throughout.