The Great Deluge
Nov. 8th, 2004 11:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaitouToday has been some day, I'll tell you!
I started today by going to a Job Fair. Well to be honest I started the day going to Kinkos to copy my resume. THEN I went to the Job Fair. It was actually pretty dissapointing. There was only one company I really wanted to talk to, and they didn't show. So I talked to the people at the Aflack booth who were setting up interviews for anything that moved. I think they may have even set up an interview with the stuffed duck on their table, I don't know. I thought, what the hey, it can't hurt, and signed up for an interview myself on Tuesday Morning. I also talked to a Native American owned contract-to-hire place. The girl there was very enthusiatic over my resume because she had a client who was looking for someone who spoke "Asian."
So I left after hardly any time there at all. I got home and there were two messages on my answering machine. Odd. One was from a Japanese headhunting agency I talked to last week, and the other was someone I didn't know, also talking about my resume. The J-agency (as it will henceforth be called) told me that the company in Macomb decided they wanted a face-to-face interview. Yeay! So we started setting that up for Thursday. I called back the other lady, who's line was busy. I went to hang up the phone, but then realized there was another message. Someone called while I was answering the other two calls!
It was another company calling back about a resume I sent on Friday. I don't really have high hopes for this thing. I mostly sent in the resume so that I could tell my parents that I sent a resume. It's all very, "Do you want an exciting CAREER!? Are you tired of folding Sweaters!?!?" If a want ad could say OMG!!!1!!, this would. But what the hell. So they want an interview Tuesday afternoon.
I called Mom to report on the good fortune, then got out of my nice suit and made some soup. Just as I set my soup down the phone rang. It was the second lady calling back. She turned out to be another headhunter looking for someone for Company X. She promised to e-mail me a business document from Company X to test my translation skillz. I went back to my soup. But before I could, the phone rang again. It was ANOTHER headhunter. Telling me they had a job with Company X. I think they were more than a bit put off when I told them Company X already had my resume.
I ate my lunch and puttered around a bit, working on the translation, which was difficult seeing that I no longer have a kanji dictionary. Then the J-agency called again. They had another job in Ohio they want me to do a phone interview for on Wednesday morning. Then Mom came home and I grumbled my way off to go buy a kanji dictionary and fill up my gas tank. I also bought a very large coffee. With a shot of hazelnut.
When I got home, Mom told me I had two phone calls. One from the one lady, who I called back, but her line was busy again....and one from the Aflack guy who wanted to reschedule. So I did for Wednesday afternoon. Then I did my best to translate the page, until my brains turned to mush and I can no longer translate even 一、二、三.
So please please wish me luck on these. I seem to have luck getting to the headhunters, and a little getting to interview, but not to get the actual job. So I could use all the luck and prayers I can get.
Oh yeah, I have subbed VCD's of Odoru Daisousasen!
And I think I quit Nano.
I started today by going to a Job Fair. Well to be honest I started the day going to Kinkos to copy my resume. THEN I went to the Job Fair. It was actually pretty dissapointing. There was only one company I really wanted to talk to, and they didn't show. So I talked to the people at the Aflack booth who were setting up interviews for anything that moved. I think they may have even set up an interview with the stuffed duck on their table, I don't know. I thought, what the hey, it can't hurt, and signed up for an interview myself on Tuesday Morning. I also talked to a Native American owned contract-to-hire place. The girl there was very enthusiatic over my resume because she had a client who was looking for someone who spoke "Asian."
So I left after hardly any time there at all. I got home and there were two messages on my answering machine. Odd. One was from a Japanese headhunting agency I talked to last week, and the other was someone I didn't know, also talking about my resume. The J-agency (as it will henceforth be called) told me that the company in Macomb decided they wanted a face-to-face interview. Yeay! So we started setting that up for Thursday. I called back the other lady, who's line was busy. I went to hang up the phone, but then realized there was another message. Someone called while I was answering the other two calls!
It was another company calling back about a resume I sent on Friday. I don't really have high hopes for this thing. I mostly sent in the resume so that I could tell my parents that I sent a resume. It's all very, "Do you want an exciting CAREER!? Are you tired of folding Sweaters!?!?" If a want ad could say OMG!!!1!!, this would. But what the hell. So they want an interview Tuesday afternoon.
I called Mom to report on the good fortune, then got out of my nice suit and made some soup. Just as I set my soup down the phone rang. It was the second lady calling back. She turned out to be another headhunter looking for someone for Company X. She promised to e-mail me a business document from Company X to test my translation skillz. I went back to my soup. But before I could, the phone rang again. It was ANOTHER headhunter. Telling me they had a job with Company X. I think they were more than a bit put off when I told them Company X already had my resume.
I ate my lunch and puttered around a bit, working on the translation, which was difficult seeing that I no longer have a kanji dictionary. Then the J-agency called again. They had another job in Ohio they want me to do a phone interview for on Wednesday morning. Then Mom came home and I grumbled my way off to go buy a kanji dictionary and fill up my gas tank. I also bought a very large coffee. With a shot of hazelnut.
When I got home, Mom told me I had two phone calls. One from the one lady, who I called back, but her line was busy again....and one from the Aflack guy who wanted to reschedule. So I did for Wednesday afternoon. Then I did my best to translate the page, until my brains turned to mush and I can no longer translate even 一、二、三.
So please please wish me luck on these. I seem to have luck getting to the headhunters, and a little getting to interview, but not to get the actual job. So I could use all the luck and prayers I can get.
Oh yeah, I have subbed VCD's of Odoru Daisousasen!
And I think I quit Nano.
