(March 24, 2014 at 5:09 pm)futilethewinds Wrote: Not a DAMN thing. I want to do a thing for a living, but everywhere I have applied, and I have applied many places, I have gotten no response whatsoever afterward. My mom says this is because I need more aggressive and after I apply for a job, I need to go to someone who has something to do with me getting that job and fucking tell them I applied for the job and that I want it.
When I interviewed for my current position my (now former) boss basically ended the interview saying "Well, I'd offer you the job but..." to which I replied, "If you offered the job, I'd accept it so..."
And I walked out with the job.
I think interviewing, especially, is a skill - the skill of getting people to like you enough in twenty minutes that they'd want to spend the next five years in your company for 9 hours a day.
Quote:She is a person that fundamentally is not the kind of person that would ever be in debt, because that idea is so fucking abysmal to her that it will NEVER happen to her.
That's pretty close to my financial policy: I'm a freakish saver. I'm buying a condo right now which will dwindle my back accounts to a mere $10k non-touchable emergency-only fund and I'm a little freaked that I won't be able to save enough monthly to build a nice little slush fund.
We'll see how it goes.
As for my job: aspiring architect (not yet licensed)
Dream job: Cat furniture designer
Jobs I think would be super fun: contractor, furniture designer/builder, upholsterer (if I had the necessary arm strength that would be such a fun job)
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
