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Job Interview Today...
Apr. 26th, 2005 12:01 amHey.
I'm going to Knoxville today to meet with a job prospect I probably won't take up. It's with Liberty National Life Insurance. I've applied with at least five other such companies and on all of them they either looked like shady companies (one had stickers on all their brochures covering over the company's previous name--a bad sign if ever there was one!) or they rejected me before it even came to a formal interview.
I suck at salesmanship. The fact that I only lasted six months at Borders Books (which was perhaps my best job!) is as good enough proof as any. So if all they're offering is sales, I'll probably just decline then and there.
Whenever I look over the possible jobs in Monster.com, they invariably require more experience or more education than I have. When I look at the Job Service listings, they all are lousy low-paying things like stocking a supermarket or flipping burgers at Micky D's.
So I have low hopes for this trip. Well, my morale is pretty low anyway. I guess I could use the change in scenery.
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Latest factoid about the cost of the War on Terror: $10 Billion just to repair/replace the materiel (mainly combat vehicles and weapons) expended in Iraq and Afganistan SO FAR. I doubt it's going to end anytime soon. Courtesy CBS Evening News. How long do you think it'll be before our Army just becomes one big junkpile?
I'm going to Knoxville today to meet with a job prospect I probably won't take up. It's with Liberty National Life Insurance. I've applied with at least five other such companies and on all of them they either looked like shady companies (one had stickers on all their brochures covering over the company's previous name--a bad sign if ever there was one!) or they rejected me before it even came to a formal interview.
I suck at salesmanship. The fact that I only lasted six months at Borders Books (which was perhaps my best job!) is as good enough proof as any. So if all they're offering is sales, I'll probably just decline then and there.
Whenever I look over the possible jobs in Monster.com, they invariably require more experience or more education than I have. When I look at the Job Service listings, they all are lousy low-paying things like stocking a supermarket or flipping burgers at Micky D's.
So I have low hopes for this trip. Well, my morale is pretty low anyway. I guess I could use the change in scenery.
* * *
Latest factoid about the cost of the War on Terror: $10 Billion just to repair/replace the materiel (mainly combat vehicles and weapons) expended in Iraq and Afganistan SO FAR. I doubt it's going to end anytime soon. Courtesy CBS Evening News. How long do you think it'll be before our Army just becomes one big junkpile?
