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trickykittyIn-person interview with better paying job went well. I got the impression that the COO was quite impressed with me just from my previous phone interview and was doing her best to make sure the owner got to meet me. The CEO was pretty forward with his questions and never gave me any indication that I wasn't meeting his expectations with my answers, so I was either hitting the nail on the head, or he's got a great poker face. I'm actually crossing my fingers on this one. It's not in a 40 story building with 3 monitors set up just for me, and I'll most likely have to go back to emptying out my own trash again*, but I think it will be a much better fit for what appeals to my creative brain.
*As a note, this contract job is the first place I've worked where I do not have to empty my own trash bin (or at least be responsible for making sure all trash was emptied by an employee I supervise) since I worked at the Administrative Offices of the YMCA in 1996. It's one of those weird things that I don't typically think about, but it did cross my mind when I was still in the office at 6pm when a cleaning crew came in to empty the trash and sweep and vacuum the floors.
Six Flags closed yesterday due to the all-day heavy rain, and then announced in the afternoon it will follow suit and stay closed through the end of March due to the virus. This means I don't have to spend a second week on this side of sleep deprivation, but I'm also not getting the extra income either.
The current client I'm working with has finally given me a list of tasks to be working on. It only took them two weeks to get there. Despite being a non-employee contractor, I had to sit through a one-hour All-Hands meeting of around 100 people in a cramped meeting room on Monday so that the CEO could officially announce that they acquired another company that will bring their employee count to around 3000 and their expected annual (income or profits, can't recall which) to around $900MM. Given my level of sleep deprivation this week from working at both this job and Six Flags, I was having a hard time keeping my eyes open and keeping from doing the sleepy-bobble-head thing. That meeting was, of course, before the country went COVID-19 crazy and has started implementing self-quarantine measures even if you are not sick. THAT'S OKAY! If any person at the company was a carrier, we just finished turning ourselves into guinea pig sardines well before Armageddon was announced, so it's all good. Thursday morning, after virus-preventative announcements started going out, my supervisor at the company went Lysol crazy in the office, so much so that I couldn't breathe and the back of my throat stayed raw until about noon on Friday. If a virus doesn't kill me, not being able to breathe will most definitely do the trick.
So now I'm less stressed about sleep dep and interviews, but I'm still on pins and needles waiting to hear back on whether or not I got the job. I hope I get it. It would mean getting a position now that I was hoping to achieve after a couple of years doing consulting work.
*As a note, this contract job is the first place I've worked where I do not have to empty my own trash bin (or at least be responsible for making sure all trash was emptied by an employee I supervise) since I worked at the Administrative Offices of the YMCA in 1996. It's one of those weird things that I don't typically think about, but it did cross my mind when I was still in the office at 6pm when a cleaning crew came in to empty the trash and sweep and vacuum the floors.
Six Flags closed yesterday due to the all-day heavy rain, and then announced in the afternoon it will follow suit and stay closed through the end of March due to the virus. This means I don't have to spend a second week on this side of sleep deprivation, but I'm also not getting the extra income either.
The current client I'm working with has finally given me a list of tasks to be working on. It only took them two weeks to get there. Despite being a non-employee contractor, I had to sit through a one-hour All-Hands meeting of around 100 people in a cramped meeting room on Monday so that the CEO could officially announce that they acquired another company that will bring their employee count to around 3000 and their expected annual (income or profits, can't recall which) to around $900MM. Given my level of sleep deprivation this week from working at both this job and Six Flags, I was having a hard time keeping my eyes open and keeping from doing the sleepy-bobble-head thing. That meeting was, of course, before the country went COVID-19 crazy and has started implementing self-quarantine measures even if you are not sick. THAT'S OKAY! If any person at the company was a carrier, we just finished turning ourselves into guinea pig sardines well before Armageddon was announced, so it's all good. Thursday morning, after virus-preventative announcements started going out, my supervisor at the company went Lysol crazy in the office, so much so that I couldn't breathe and the back of my throat stayed raw until about noon on Friday. If a virus doesn't kill me, not being able to breathe will most definitely do the trick.
So now I'm less stressed about sleep dep and interviews, but I'm still on pins and needles waiting to hear back on whether or not I got the job. I hope I get it. It would mean getting a position now that I was hoping to achieve after a couple of years doing consulting work.
