Before we moved to Norfolk, I came on the weekends and looked for jobs and plugged away at sending my resume to places on the Career Connection Website. Well, I never got any bites on jobs or interviews until the week before I quit my job in North Carolina. So, I scheduled my first interview in Virginia for the Monday after my last day at BB&T. I was super excited to have an interview and felt like this would be my step in the right direction for getting started in Norfolk! Boy was I wrong...I came to the area the weekend before, plugged in my GPS and Paul carried me away to the location of the first interview. I mainly wanted to find it before the interview so I could decide on how I needed to dress...professional or business casual. Once we found the place, I decided that business casual would be the better choice of the 2. I also decided that while we were looking around at the area, that on the day of the interview it would be best if Paul drove me and sat in the car just in case I got in the door and needed to have a fast exit plan. You can tell how I was feeling about this interview already! So, the day came...I got in my business casual attire and we were out the door! I got in the door for the interview and the lady who called herself the professional receptionist (which was wearing jeans and a sweat shirt might I add) handed me an application and said, "Here fill this out and when you're done you can wait for someone to call you back!" I was already looking for my quick exit but decided I would stay and fill out the application partially (I know, how professional), I didn't want all of my information out there for someone to come hunt me down later (I know my afraid side came out). So, I get interviewed and find out during the interview after several boring sighs and yawns that the next question the interviewer asked me I would answer it "dumb" so he would escort me out! The question was asked and it was..."So, tell me on a scale of 1-10, 1 being not interested and 10 sign me up, when can I start, what would you consider yourself?" I didn't even think I just said, "I'd be a 4 or a 5 because I'm not comfortable with this area or this city just yet." His response was, "Well, we only hire 10's!" Of course my response was, "Well you're not getting a 10 out of me!" So needless to say that interview was over really quick and I was never more happy to be out of that place!
Then we moved up here and my job search started seriously. I even asked the leasing agent that helped us with the apartment if she knew of anywhere that was hiring...she didn't. So, some time passed and I was still sending off my resume and walking around the malls and door-to door in our little community asking if people were doing any hiring. The only response I got was "Honey, we're firing, not hiring!" The majority of the places were laying people off from the holidays. After all, we moved up here right after Christmas. So, I decided that the week before last I would take the week off from looking so hard for a job and only send my resume to places I really thought I would have a possible future. I got a phone call on a late Friday afternoon from a Dr.'s office. The interview lasted an hour over the phone and she set up an informal interview with me for that next week on Monday. I went to the interview and felt more comfortable on the phone than I did in the office. So back to the drawing board I went! Time passed and finally I get a random e-mail from our leasing agent! She wanted a copy of my resume so she could pass it along to some of her contact that she thought may need help! Little did I know she was plotting to give my resume to her boss because they are hiring in the leasing office. While Rachel was here visiting we were in the game room playing pool and the Office Manager came over and asked if she could talk with me about my resume. So, she set up an interview for that next week on Tuesday. I felt so comfortable in the interview (minus the fact that she told me she still had to interview one more person) and she said that she would like to start the background check paperwork and find out if her boss would like to do a second interview with me since he would be here that next week (which is this week). I wasted no time on filling out the paperwork for the background check and rushed it back downstairs to her! She just said after I gave the papers back to her, "I'll just let you know something when I find out hopefully by the end of the week!" Well the end of the week came here and I heard NOTHING! I was starting to mope around and worry...Finally on Monday, she called and set up a second interview. So, I have a second interview on Thursday with her and her boss! Please cross your fingers that this goes well and maybe I'll have a job offer by the end of the week or beginning of next week!
Sorry for rambling on...this is just something I feel so strongly about. I'm getting cabin fever and running out of things to do! So, hopefully I'll have a job to take some of this time that I'm not so used to having off of my hands! Until next time....
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