Oh, what changes an hour can bring! I have now moved to the wifi at Panera. At my lucky week has let me down. I just got an email thanking me for interviewing, but informing me that the position for which I interviewed at Macmillan was given to someone else.
I figured this. It has been three weeks since I interviewed, and I'm sure there were plenty of candidates who were better than me. I'm not sad so much about not getting the job (it wasn't my dream job anyway), but I am sad that I now have one less opportunity. This morning, life was great--I was tending bar, thinking about my editing gig, and my upcoming interview, and thinking I still had a shot at this job. I had multiple things that could work out for me. Now, I have one less.
I know I am being pessimistic. An hour ago, things were great! And a lot of them still are. Its just a bit of a bummer to have that door shut now. It puts a lot more pressure on me to interview well next week. And this is my first flat out rejection. All those hundreds of jobs I applied for that never contacted me were implied rejections. This one is explicit.
I will stay positive though. All the good things in my last post are still good. Who knows? Maybe I'll have a great interview at McGraw Hill, and that job will pay a little more. Maybe I'll train for the bar, and I'll make so much money, I don't want to leave Maryland for awhile. Or maybe I will kick so much butt at this freelancing job that I will get hundreds more jobs and be able to live in a swank NY apartment on the money from that alone. One never knows.
But as soon as I do, you will.
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