doranosaurus ([info]doranosaurus) wrote,
@ 2005-10-04 14:30:00
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Cheryl from the UW job called me again and says I should be receiving a call within the hour offering me the position and a salary. Goddamn, I'm so nervous. Much more nervous than at the interview. It's like, at the interview, I could pretend to be a chipper employee for the requisite hour but now I'm going to be required to be a chipper employee forever! I'll be exposed as a fraud. It's only a matter of time. I'd give it about 2 hours before they realize I'm a shy, dour individual not the energetic, witty man in the suit they met at the interview. Poor them. Oh well. I guess that's their problem. If they were dumb enough to hire me! Oh god, what a horrible attitude.

I'm actually looking forward to starting a job though. It'll make me feel less guilty about sitting around in my free time. It's like I'll be able to say, "Hey I worked! I am now allowed, with impunity, to sit on my ass and surf the 'net 'til all hours of the night."



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[info]queenkatieett
2005-10-04 10:17 pm UTC (link)
I can't wait until your employer finds this completely public entry and says, "'Dumb enough to hire me?' Oh."

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[info]malone
2005-10-04 10:39 pm UTC (link)
I was thinking the same thing! ;)

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-04 11:34 pm UTC (link)
Do you think I'm in danger of getting in trouble with my job by writing these things in my journal?

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[info]malone
2005-10-04 11:37 pm UTC (link)
Just depends on your work and the things you write.

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-04 11:44 pm UTC (link)
I was hoping to write about my frustrations at work but I guess there is a risk, tho very remote, of being discovered by my employer. I really don't like the idea of going friends only. This sucks.

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[info]malone
2005-10-05 12:29 am UTC (link)
You could always keep it like it is - but when you write about work, make those entries friends only.

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-04 11:41 pm UTC (link)
Hmm, do you really think I'd get in trouble for writing something like that?

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[info]welfy
2005-10-05 12:20 am UTC (link)
At least you don't have "Sex in the Kitchen" pictures floating around the internets! Thank God the church doesn't HAVE the internet.

You wouldn't have to go all friends-only. Maybe just for work posts?

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-05 12:28 am UTC (link)
yeah, probly a good idea.

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[info]queenkatieett
2005-10-05 12:36 am UTC (link)
I don't know if you'd get in trouble, but the little, old ladies who interviewed you might shake their heads disapprovingly every time they see you around the office.

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-05 12:51 am UTC (link)
heheh, that'd be awesome!

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[info]queenkatieett
2005-10-05 02:35 am UTC (link)
Call your grandma and tell her you're sorry.

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[info]xcentrikka
2005-10-04 10:19 pm UTC (link)
Congrats! Somehow, I doubt you were very chipper at the interview. It's hard to imagine you chipper. Heh, anyway, I am sure you will be fiiine.

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-04 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Heheh. Oh, I was chipper alright! I can maintain it for a few minutes if forced. Ok, I'll admit my version of chipper is the average person's normal level of enthusiasm, but still.

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[info]janezanaddict
2005-10-04 10:20 pm UTC (link)
I'm excited for you! And don't worry what they think of you.. you are qualified for the job and that should matter to them. No one can be perky 100% of the time...at least you have the ability to be true to yourself. Some people just walk around with the fake happiness going on all day. Life isn't really that peppy. I know things will turn out well for you. Besides, think how awesome it is going to be to have a constant source of money flowing in! Good luck!!

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-04 11:38 pm UTC (link)
Unfortunately I disagree. I think part of success in the employment world is to maintain a facade of happiness. If it's not true happiness, you'd better fake it. At least in the types of jobs I've had which involve customer service. I'm not a happy person, and it's very taxing for me to present that facade for long periods of time. Hence my lack of enthusiasm for the jobs I've had and this one starting on Monday. I'd love to be a craftsperson who could interact with inanimate materials rather than people but it doesn't seem like it's worked out that way.

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[info]helianthas
2005-10-04 11:16 pm UTC (link)
I'm actually looking forward to starting a job though. It'll make me feel less guilty about sitting around in my free time. It's like I'll be able to say, "Hey I worked! I am now allowed, with impunity, to sit on my ass and surf the 'net 'til all hours of the night."

So. True.

good luck!

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[info]takenbutterfly
2005-10-04 11:40 pm UTC (link)
Yay for being a productive human being!

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[info]kejn
2005-10-05 05:58 am UTC (link)
I'll be exposed as a fraud. It's only a matter of time.

your brain must be partly female. that's a very common thought mistake that women make. A LOT of women live their lives feeling that way about just about everything.

just be the 9th best fraud you can be. ;-)

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-05 06:00 am UTC (link)
I actually do think I have more 'feminine' traits than the average guy.

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damocles
[info]arohanui
2005-10-12 07:02 am UTC (link)
> I'll be exposed as a fraud.

I spent my entire professional life waiting for people to twig to my ineptness and axe me.

My counsellor asked me on Monday how I felt during the year I spent more or less in bed after my breakdown, and the first word that sprang to mind was 'relief'. Relief that I didn't have to pretend I was capable of living up to everyone's expectations anymore, I could just pre-empt their judgements by declaring myself a failure in the most abject way possible.

I don't recommend this approach. Just be yourself (yeah, I know, if only it were that easy); if they don't like it, well, you're better off without 'em.

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PS:
[info]arohanui
2005-10-12 07:03 am UTC (link)
Congratulations!

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Re: PS:
[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-12 07:10 am UTC (link)
Thanks, but it's not a job to be proud of beyond not being unemployed.

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[info]arohanui
2005-10-12 07:23 am UTC (link)
> beyond not being unemployed

Hey, well that's certainly something to be proud of. It's more than I've managed so far. I'm proud of you, for one.

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-13 01:57 am UTC (link)
Ok, thanks. I appreciate that sincerely. Even tho LJ friends aren't "real" friends it still is meaningful to me to have support. Since I don't have IRL friends anyway, LJ friends ARE my social support.

When I went to my interviews, I used the support of LJ friends as a self-affirmation.

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self-affirmation
[info]arohanui
2005-10-13 11:36 pm UTC (link)
> Since I don't have IRL friends anyway, LJ friends ARE my social support.

I hear ya. None of my really close friends live in the same town as me anymore, and my habit of isolating when I'm down does nothing for my support network I can tell you.

But that aside, I find I talk about different things here in LJ-land, expose different things, things that simply never come up in the to and fro of even deep and meaningful conversations. Monologues can be very revealing. I've found the same phenomenon occurs in letter or email interchanges. I'd certainly miss LJ if I were suddenly deprived of it.

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Re: self-affirmation
[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-14 04:12 am UTC (link)
I'm glad we don't live in Burma, Singapore or China...they don't allow blogging!

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Re: damocles
[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-12 07:08 am UTC (link)
I do the same thing; I talk shit about myself to myself to preempt external criticism.

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[info]kejn
2005-10-05 06:00 am UTC (link)
oh and yeah, make the job posts friends only from now on, cause we'd LOVE to read the uncensored "doran's day at work".

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[info]doranosaurus
2005-10-05 06:04 am UTC (link)
I wouldn't dream of leaving you out of the festivities.

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