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Should I or should I not….

09.07.2006

I actually think I’m going to go into that 9:30 am meeting with my manager and pull the plug.  If I do, I will surely detail all.  If not…

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The Shock of Getting What You Wanted…

04.04.2006

…it is very weird, I’d say.  I feel like I’m in a dream and I’ve waked up and it’s real.  Not that the situation is so dreamy.  But that…let me start at the beginning: Not quite two years ago, I decided I was going to go for my Masters in Psych. I found a school, [...]

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You’re hired…

04.04.2006

Yes, actually, really, someone spoke those words to me.  Evidentally my deer-in-the-headlights in that interview was…endearing?  Or not so totally off-putting.  Or something.  I start in two weeks.  I am trying not to panic.  (Breathe, Jane, breathe.) In other news, our beloved Molly (she of the photo at right or top or wherever it is) [...]

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Dear Stanford House…you suck

03.30.2006

I got my pro forma turndown from Stanford House.  “Dear Candidate….blah, blah, blah, blah…”   I’m now trying to decide if I should be mature and just forget the whole thing, or give in to my desire to vent my displeasure.  Here’s what I would say in a vent: Dear HR Person from Stanford House, Thank [...]

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Interview update…

03.28.2006

…there isn’t any.  I figured both, but especially the last, couldn’t work quickly enough to scrape me off their plates, metaphorically.  But perhaps I’m being presumptuous to assume that they fully follow a formal HR protocol and do the ‘thanks but no thanks’ response. 

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The Hell of the job interview…

03.24.2006

I had today the two worst job interviews of my long, heretofore somewhat successful life.  Not two of the.  But the worst.   I don’t know if I can even go into what made them so awful, especially since it’s almost midnight now (okay, it’s 11 p.m., but that’s close).  Since I’m tired and p.o.ed and [...]

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Fantasy, Reality & Fear: The true three horsemen

03.22.2006

I’m interviewing for jobs. At last. I have been going crazy with inactivity over the past months (actually, over the past years, if the truth be known). This has resulted in much moaning and gnashing of teeth, metaphorically that is. I’ve had a palpable urge for involvement, to be of use, to fulfill that messianic [...]

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