I had high hopes for today. I thought I'd go down to Columbia, look at the lab, do a quick interview, and have a better feeling for the job. I wasn't planning on today being a stressful day, but how often do things turn out exactly the way I envision?
This morning, I woke up early to call the temp agency so we could talk about the medical research position. I made sure to get up with enough time to call the agency and get ready for my 11:00 meeting at Columbia. It turned out that I needed to call the lady in charge of the research company before noon for a phone interview. That didn't leave me much time to get suited up, but I didn't really have a choice.
After talking to her on the phone, I still don't know quite how I feel about that job. She wants me to write a 500 word personal statement as to why I'm good for the position and email it to her tonight, which I would have done immediately but it was time to leave. Upon leaving, I found out the elevator in the building wasn't working. So I left, walked down from the seventh floor, and arrived at Columbia ten minutes early.
Apparently, the guy in charge of the lab told someone else to meet there at that time - I had no idea this was going to be a competitive interviewing process. I psyched myself up to be better than this other guy and talked to the security guard. He said he couldn't get in touch with the lab director and to have a seat. After waiting awhile, he told us to go on ahead upstairs and someone would meet us by the elevators. Someone did. Someone from the lab who told us the director was in a staff meeting and that we should come back at 1:15.
Now... don't they schedule meetings like that at least somewhat in advance? And even if they didn't, wouldn't it be easy to call people you're supposed to be meeting and let them know before you waste their time? It takes me a half hour to get there. That's two hours travel time I'll spend today going back and forth.
Anyway, I came back and am now writing this. I have enough time to do write and grab a quick sandwich before it's time to leave again. And the elevator is still broken, so I have to walk up and down all the stairs. Blah!
On top of that, I was all excited about getting a new phone. My "new every two" with Verizon starts today, and they have a promotion where you can get the phone I want for free with it if you order online. So today I found out that since my number isn't the primary number on the phone that I'm not eligible for the "new every two" at all. No cheap phone for me. Ever.
This morning, I woke up early to call the temp agency so we could talk about the medical research position. I made sure to get up with enough time to call the agency and get ready for my 11:00 meeting at Columbia. It turned out that I needed to call the lady in charge of the research company before noon for a phone interview. That didn't leave me much time to get suited up, but I didn't really have a choice.
After talking to her on the phone, I still don't know quite how I feel about that job. She wants me to write a 500 word personal statement as to why I'm good for the position and email it to her tonight, which I would have done immediately but it was time to leave. Upon leaving, I found out the elevator in the building wasn't working. So I left, walked down from the seventh floor, and arrived at Columbia ten minutes early.
Apparently, the guy in charge of the lab told someone else to meet there at that time - I had no idea this was going to be a competitive interviewing process. I psyched myself up to be better than this other guy and talked to the security guard. He said he couldn't get in touch with the lab director and to have a seat. After waiting awhile, he told us to go on ahead upstairs and someone would meet us by the elevators. Someone did. Someone from the lab who told us the director was in a staff meeting and that we should come back at 1:15.
Now... don't they schedule meetings like that at least somewhat in advance? And even if they didn't, wouldn't it be easy to call people you're supposed to be meeting and let them know before you waste their time? It takes me a half hour to get there. That's two hours travel time I'll spend today going back and forth.
Anyway, I came back and am now writing this. I have enough time to do write and grab a quick sandwich before it's time to leave again. And the elevator is still broken, so I have to walk up and down all the stairs. Blah!
On top of that, I was all excited about getting a new phone. My "new every two" with Verizon starts today, and they have a promotion where you can get the phone I want for free with it if you order online. So today I found out that since my number isn't the primary number on the phone that I'm not eligible for the "new every two" at all. No cheap phone for me. Ever.
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