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For the first time in nearly a year...
Jul. 16th, 2002 04:32 pmI've got a job interview.
A recruiter for Premera Blue Cross, on the north side of Seattle (in Mountlake Terrace, actually-- across the county line and effectively inaccessible by public transportation), called to set up a combined technical and management interview for Thursday afternoon. I haven't had even the hint of a job prospect since late September, and the recruiter says they've got multiple openings because they're moving some work from other areas and the people there don't want to relocate.
The quick-and-dirty review of what they're looking for is right up my technical alley.
So why am I scared witless? Surely they'll understand that I haven't worked in almost a year because there hasn't been any work, right? They won't hold that against me... And there haven't been any significant technical breakthroughs in the last ten or eleven months that I'd need to be on top of, not in mainframe database technology. So the technical screening ought to be a breeze.
It's the confidence thing. My almost complete lack thereof, exacerbated by feelings of uselessness stemming not only from not being the breadwinner wage-earner guy, but by not having been able to help (FSVO "help")![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
angilong through her emotional upheavals these past several months.
So, if anyone's reading this: send me goodthoughts, ask whatever Powers That Be for their positive intervention to the greater good of the greatest number, and let me get this job!
A recruiter for Premera Blue Cross, on the north side of Seattle (in Mountlake Terrace, actually-- across the county line and effectively inaccessible by public transportation), called to set up a combined technical and management interview for Thursday afternoon. I haven't had even the hint of a job prospect since late September, and the recruiter says they've got multiple openings because they're moving some work from other areas and the people there don't want to relocate.
The quick-and-dirty review of what they're looking for is right up my technical alley.
So why am I scared witless? Surely they'll understand that I haven't worked in almost a year because there hasn't been any work, right? They won't hold that against me... And there haven't been any significant technical breakthroughs in the last ten or eleven months that I'd need to be on top of, not in mainframe database technology. So the technical screening ought to be a breeze.
It's the confidence thing. My almost complete lack thereof, exacerbated by feelings of uselessness stemming not only from not being the breadwinner wage-earner guy, but by not having been able to help (FSVO "help")
angilong through her emotional upheavals these past several months.So, if anyone's reading this: send me goodthoughts, ask whatever Powers That Be for their positive intervention to the greater good of the greatest number, and let me get this job!
