I applied to some places last week. Or was it two weeks ago? This partially caused a crisis in my life as the places I applied required me to do two things: first, ignore the fact that I’ve worked for a lot of places since, oh, I don’t know, I turned 16; and second, realize that these places are going to pay a lot less than would cover, at best, the bills that are coming in. What I hoped was that the places would (pretty much) ignore me and move on. I mean, I gave them absolutely zero information.
Why did I give them zero employment information? Because my mother applied to the same company and didn’t even get called until she did the same thing. What the gravy?
Seriously, and if you can answer this you are a much better person than me, who wants employees who inherently have to lie in order to be interviewed? I can tell you who, but I won’t. At least, not today.
Anyway, I got a call today asking me to come in for an interview. On the one hand, this is good news as I’ve applied for a lot of places and haven’t even been called; on the other hand it sucks because the nature and level of employment is something you would expect a teenager to be excited about with no world or life or employment experience.
Don’t take this the wrong way, I am excited about the potential for work. At the same time, I would’ve liked one of the companies I am qualified to work for and my degree makes me even more qualified to work for to have called and scheduled an interview.
I guess, and this is where I will end this post, you can only do so much and sometimes have to take some steps backward in order to move forwad.
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