Categories: uncategorized
Date: 01 June 2004 11:20:30
I've a job interview today. I'm not nervous about it really, more excited. I feel as if I'm about to step out onto a concert stage to take command of my audience. In the rare instances of "stage fright" I've had (you know, the shaking, the dry mouth, the weak knees), I wasn't hit by it until the performance was all over.
Over the past 20+ years, when I've worked a job, I've done it around the family's needs. If I couldn't control the schedule, or if it meant I needed day care, I didn't stay in the job.
That has been a blessing. The kids were primarily under my care (well, they may consider that not so much a blessing as a cross to bear, hah!), and I was able to work a broad array of fascinating jobs and volunteer posts.
It's hard to put an employment history like that on paper though. I usually can't squish the details into the bland little boxes on a job application.
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Retail Sales -- Department Stores, Automobiles, Grocery
Facility Maintenance, Residential Nursing Home
Crisis counselor, Council of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence
US Treasury / Census Bureau, 1990 and 2000 census
Mobile DJ
Fast Food
Claims Dept. for the world's largest meat processor
Automotive Service Writer
Auto Parts sales & delivery
Costumed singing telegram / balloon delivery
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I do know how to do a lot. The kids are growing up, I need to finish my degree, and I need a job. Let's hope I can convince the recruiter to hire me and pay me something worthwhile.