GIECO Gecko

The interview today was like I was talking with the GIECO Gecko.  It took me a bit to tune my ears but once I did, we had a great conversation.  We were scheduled for an entire hour but only used 34 minutes.  There wasn’t a whole lot of talking on my part, the guy I interviewed with did most of the talking.  His voice was very relaxing.  I think if we had went the whole hour it would have been the first time I fell asleep in an interview.  I’ve got a couple weeks to wait before I hear anything from them.  I’m a low ball candidate, who has tons of experience.  This is a job where your tied to the phone and a desk all day long.  I won’t like it that much but it should pay the bills, if I get it.

Just before I was going in, I got a call from another place who wants to interview me next week.  They said they would call back to set something up.  When I got out of my interview there was a voice mail waiting for me and I need to call them back tomorrow.

Sitting here at home a little after 6pm watching the news and then flipping channels the phone rings.  Who in the world is calling me at this hour.  Turns out it was a local news station that I applied at.  They saw me as an over qualified candidate but decided to reach out to me.  The guy was pretty quick to cut to the chase and figure out if my salary range would even fit and since I low balled them too, we are talking more tomorrow in a phone interview.  I’ve applied at this place twice and it looks like the 2nd time was the charm.  I would so love this job.  Plus he told me that there would be potential to advance and go into management, hey sounds groovy!

While the leads are out there and things are popping, I really wish someone would bite and make me an offer.  I am so ready to stop this madness of a job search.  I figure that I will go file for welfare and food stamps, then just after I apply someone will call.

Today’s mail brought me a letter from American Express informing me that my account was cancelled because I filed Bankruptcy.  Now mind you that I’ve always paid them off in full on-time every month.  There letter said they were going to report my account with a collection status.  Nice, I guess all of that hard work to pay them off really doesn’t mean a thing once you file bankruptcy.  I know I’m not supposed to feel sorrow for creditors but AMEX and one other, I do feel sorry for.  We had a great relationship, they treated me very well and I gave them both plenty of business.  Now that much luck has changed I guess I am nothing more than pond scum to them.  Ah, well it’s not like I had a choice I was forced into this by circumstances.

On the cat front, TAZ puked and this afternoon my partner stepped in it.  I laughed at him but I hate when it happens to me.  It was the sound he made once he realized what he did, that is what was funny.  He wasn’t to keen on my laughter.  So I have a mess to clean up.  Outside of that I think everything is okay (knocks wood).

Lawn Boy woke me up at 8:30 this morning.  Then my partners phone rang.  Then my partner got up.  It was like there was no sleeping.  However, I did manage to get back to sleep and my Jumper (cat) was right there to cuddle up with me.  I did wake up earlier than what I set the alarm for.  I had an erotic dream about me and one of my former bosses.  It took a while to get that out of my head but eventually it went away.  I always did have a crush on him from the time I interviewed with him.  He’s straight, married and has two kids.  I know he wouldn’t be interested in me.  Strange how your mind works at times.  Too bad I woke up early, who knows where the dream would have gone!

So that is my Wednesday.  I hope yours was good.  I’m looking forward to tomorrow and hope that before the week ends I have a job.  I realize I may not get my wish but I would think with just the simple law of averages and all of the recent activity some company would want to scoop me up.  Thanks for stopping by and for your thoughts, prayers and words of encouragement.  They mean the world to me!  I will talk with you peeps later!