job fair results

[edenfalling]

I survived! :-D

(This is not a surprise, regardless of what I said in my previous post. I just find that one effective way to manage bouts of panic and/or nerves is to start listing everything that I feel will go wrong, and get more and more exaggerated until I am up to "and then I will spontaneously combust in defiance of all known laws of physics" levels of catastrophe. At that point the ridiculousness of my words crashes down on me and I realize the worst that can happen is very boring and ordinary and also unlikely, and I go do the thing. I don't recommend that method for anyone with generalized anxiety issues, but since my anxiety is entirely situational, I can usually make my hindbrain recognize that my fears are illogical and thereby dissipate my jitters. These days I try to do that internally, since reciting a litany of "oh god we're all going to die" scenarios out loud tends to get really irritating for the people around me. *wry*)

Anyway, I have an interview for a part-time job on Tuesday evening. The job in question would not start until January, with some training in December, but even so. A potential job! And the lady staffing the table (who will also be doing the full interview) thought I was awesome!

I also have lines on paid training programs to become either a certified nursing assistant (CNA) or an electrician, neither of which requires any previous experience. And several other employers seemed to like me and encouraged me to submit online applications to supplement the resumes I left with them. So, you know, there are options!

I collected a LOT of literature and business cards, and also a fair amount of chocolate. Tiny candy bars are apparently good "come talk to us!" bribe material.

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To sum up, that was exhausting, but I am very glad I went. :-)

Comments

[heliopausa]

Well, I think you're pretty awesome, too! Good luck with it. :)

Editing to be more specific: I thought you were amazing to not only do an NFE assignment, and a pinch-hit, but to knock out three more stories in short order for the Madness Round. I know you've got other skills, like people management, but that swift reading/writing/assessing is the one I've just seen happen before my very eyes.

[edenfalling]

Ahahahaha, what you were NOT seeing is the truly stupendous amounts of procrastination I indulged in, between and around those bursts of speed-writing. I have basically two writing speeds: exhausted tortoise on opiates or panicked hare on amphetamines. I am not good at finding a happy medium. *wry* But I do work well under pressure, and I have years of fifteen-minute-fic writing experience, so it's not terribly hard to go from prompt to idea to ficlet. It's not the kind of experience I can put on a resume, though. Alas!

[eos_joy]

(1) Of course they did! ^^

(2) Chocolate is the best bribe ever. *nods*

(3) Congrats! *\o/*

[edenfalling]

Thanks! And chocolate may not be the absolute best bribe, but it's certainly the most versatile. (I mean, aside from just giving people money. But that's tacky. *wry*)

[jjhunter]

*waves pom-poms of encouragement*

[edenfalling]

*submits more online applications* (Oh god, so many applications. Which is a good thing! But still, so many.)