Interview Adventures

Hubs is now on day two of officially being back-to-work as a teacher. So after 8 weeks of neither one of us needing  an alarm we are now back to using an alarm.

One day last week I needed the alarm due to a 9:00 job interview. For a company seems to be a little cultish. I was told that when they hire someone they want to be 100% sure of the fit and they don’t ever want a new employee to leave.  I had visions of The Firm by John Grisham.   I can tell by their interview questions that they’re super concerned with their new hire fitting in and getting along. And the next step is to have me take a personality test – which I did yesterday and that sucker was 132 questions long!  Toward the end it asked the same question like 16 times but in different ways.  Not a fan of company owners and managers trying to figure out how an employee will fit into the role by taking a "personality" test. Maybe I wouldn't mind it so much if I didn't feel like they were all drinking the Kool-Aid.

Another firm—the complete opposite in style as they are more interested in how I would service the clients and could potentially work from home (pls keep your fingers crossed for me) --  does phone interviews only.  I have “passed” several steps and moved from an initial phone call with the recruiter who found me, then weeks later the process moved along with another recruiter from same company calling me to set up an official recruiter call.  Then a few days later I spoke to a manager, then two days later another manager and next I’ll hear from the recruiter #2 again and then if all is still a go then I’d have a phone interview with a higher-up manager and then I don’t know what happens after that except that my 15 year old son may be graduating high school by then.

Back to now having to get up from an alarm—I may point out that I don’t need to be anywhere, but since Hubs does now, I wake up too.  Which would be fine, in fact it would be great to get my day started before the three boys get up so I can get some things done quietly such as write job interview thank yous and make job search phone calls and online applying and creative ways to pay bills.

And ideally I'd get a good night's sleep, which is not happening.  Because Hubs is waking me up after I have fallen sleep, hours before anyone needs to get up.  It's getting on my nerves.  One night he got up because he thought he heard a noise downstairs.  Last night it was because he woke up and wondered if he had closed the garage doors.  I wake up when he opens our bedroom door. 

The really crazy one was last weekend when he woke me up at 7:00 a.m. to tell me he was shaving off his “devil’s beard” because he felt like it was suffocating him.  There was no alarm clock involved.  Just some bad dream he was having.  See, when we went out West that dry air made our formerly humidity-filled skin dry out and made shaving his face painful so in early June on the road trip he started growing a beard.  I liked it and the boys liked it.  Eldest told him he was rocking the beard.  

Some people he works with saw it last week and they liked it.  I figured he would shave it before meeting his students and parents soon.  I did not figure he would announce to me at 7:00 a.m. on a Sunday that he really must shave it off at that moment.  I do have a photo from the 4^th of July and for that I am glad.  

I am not a frequent medicine-taker, but last night I seriously thought about taking a Benedryl at night now and then.   Because I must get my sleep to be ready -- one never knows when new interviews pop up and to be ready for more same questions such as: what are you most proud of......what are your weaknesses.........what are five words your friends would use to describe you!