"Ah no, am I on fire now?"
So today is my first of a possible two interviews for jobs this week. This one is an internship at a name-brand hospital or hospital-related branch. I'm not sure what they do there. The person who called me said it would be a part time, while the web site says full time. Neither the caller nor the web site mentions if it's paid. Unfortunately I didn't get the guys name or number so I could call him back. So if the other full time job doesn't pan-out I can take this internship, assuming I get passed this interview, which I probably will.
Now on that other job I've been talking about I still have no idea if or when an interview could happen. I really feel like I'm just being jerked around over here. First the interviews could be last Friday, then most likely Wednesday, now I'm supposed to call or get a call from a contact telling what if anything the deal is supposed to be. I don't have a good feeling about this. Doesn't feel good to be "jerked around" like this. It's very disrespectful.
As I've done I think once or twice before I'm going to try and write out my feelings and anxieties before this interview. This really shouldn't be all that much of a big deal. I think I'm getting accustomed to these interviews, as I didn't even have trouble sleeping last night. Most interviews I have quite a bit of trouble sleeping the night prior. But not this time. Am I aloof? Arrogant? A goof? I know I can't exactly say I'll be here and ready start effectively Monday since I'm still waiting for that other stupid job I no longer have any faith in. I will do whatever I can to get this internship so if the other job doesn't work out I can just start the internship. But if I do actually get the other job (assuming I ever have an interview) then I'll have to leave the internship rather abruptly.
Now especially if it's unpaid I know the people I'll be working for will be very understanding of my having to leave. Of course this internship has it's advantages, after all. For one thing it's only about 15 minutes from my house, assuming no traffic of course. The full-time job would require a lot of traveling. The full time job would pay a lot more and more than likely be much more long-term.
But I think it's better if I'm a realist when it comes to this. If history were any indicator the next week will look like this: I'll talk to the full-time job contact, he'll tell me the employer is not looking for someone with my work history of "specialized resume". I'll go to the internship interview, I'll think I nailed it, I won't hear from them. I'll call every other day for two weeks. I'll finally receive a call telling me they've filled all the internship positions and they're sorry they hadn't told me this sooner.
Ok this may be a bit cynical. It may even sound defeatist in nature. If my life were at all consistent this is what the next two weeks look like. Ok lets look at the semi-optimistic version of the future two weeks:
Go to internship interview, get internship, starting Monday. Full time job contact calls, see cynical version of events for the rest of it.
Ok here's the optimistic version:
I'll get the internship, talk to the contact for the full time and he'll actually have a time for an interview. Lets say the interview is scheduled for Thursday. I'll be assigned to start the internship on Monday, I won't find out if I have the full time job until next Wednesday. And what if they actually want me at the full time job? I'll have to explain why I'm leaving to the internship people, now won't I?
Ok more than likely it will be yet another week until I start the full time job. And will it work out? Oh, I'll make it work out. Why is it these full time jobs stop considering me before I've even been given a chance? Like they really know me and have given me a chance to ruin my chances (if you know what I mean).
Ok I think I've about worked it all out here. I may be ready for some interviewin'. Now, what should I bring? Awe I'll figure it out.
In other news I've finally placed the-worst-movie-ever on a DVD without any major screw ups. You see this movie I'm talking about, Knights, is only about 93 minutes long, and I don't do chapters because I've never really had to do so. I kept putting the movie on DVD but when I played it back at about 39 and a half minutes into it the audio/video would screw up and the sync would be off by 3 or 4 seconds there after. Even though the original MPEG I was using for the DVD would play perfectly all the way through, once on DVD it was screwed up.
So I decided to split the movie into two parts around the spot where it screwed up on the DVD. Then I strung them together using the DVD creator software, not Video deLuxe 2.0. This worked apparently. And I now have two chapters at least. Seems like there should really be a better way to do this. If I studied enough I could learn how to do chapters in Video deLuxe but I've had about enough of that program.
Update: 10:45pm
I just came across an absolutely terrific fan-created music video of an outkast song. I'm actually not even into outkast, but this video is really, really good. Now I could give you the file name to Google, but I think I'll just say you have to Google "outkast peanuts". The matches will probably be in forums, eventually you find a link, in that forum, to the a .mov file. Some fan took some clips of the old Charlie Brown cartoon and combined it with the outkast song so it's like the characters are singing and dancing to the song. It's perfect! But the Charlie Brown peeps have issued the old cease and desist order so it was taken off the original/official web site. But it's still out there. Probably on Kazaa/bit torrent/etc. also.
Oh and obviously I'm back from the interview today. I did some metaphors, made it obvious how much I enjoy helping novice users with computers, and tried to exhibit a little enthusiasm at the prospect of being an intern at this place. I'm not at all sure how I came across. The two interviewing me seemed really friendly though and at least a little impressed with me. They didn't give me any contact phone number though (and I asked too) so if those stupid flakes were to actually contact me (I'm holding my breath) I would have no way to tell the intern people. But I don't think I have much to worry about in that area.
Well it's 2am so I may as well go to bed. I hoped you enjoyed this entry.
