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so things have changed, pretty dramatically, i dare say. This week i went on 3 interviews, with 2 companies. One has yielded a job offer. That’s right, a real job offer. not some “come work for us and we’ll take a look at whether we’d liek to hire you 90 days from now”, not a “we’ll have a couple week’s worth of work for you in 5 weeks”. A real job offer. At a company that owns an office, in a huge office park, seriously, i’m talking right out of office space, there’s even a TGI fridays near by, i wonder if they have extreme fajitas.

The job looks pretty sweet, the company seems totally gadget happy and loves to keep things current and all that. THEN i go to the interview at the second company. well not directly, the recruiter guy wanted to have a pre interview to “prep” me so that i would be able to “knock the cover off the ball and get this job!”. I not usually direct on this site or anything, but i can say this: i don’t like recruiters. anyhoo, after some confusion i find the office of company number 2, and wait for my interview. now i’m wearing my backup backup suit, adn it’s about 98 degrees outside, and the AC in this office is not working so it’s gotta be 80 or so in there…i can assure you I was not putting out my “A” game. In fact, i had very little energy to swing hard enough to try to knock the cover off the ball.

So i did my song and dance, jumped through the “explain this masters in philosophy to me….what’s this….Belgium??” hoop, and said my goodbyes. I thought i had maybe hit a double, but certainly did not hit the cover off the ball.
So i get home and lo and behold there is a message from Company #1, they want to hire my ass, as soon as I want to start, i can start, and b/c the first couple months will be learning their business model, systems and get this–taking classes in microsoft.net and SQL (that’s right they’re going to send me to classes!!), oh sure there’s a reduced pay rate for this training period, but not reduced by much…seems pretty clear, jump on this jefke, jump on it.

So i tell the guy at company 1, give me a day to “talk it over with the wife”
then call recruiter chumpass and tell him that the cover was not knocked off, and i think i’m going with the other company. Then the recuirter calles like 20 mins later, and tells me that the dood i interviewed with loves me and was “giddy like a school-boy”. wtf?

Is this the twilight zone?
did the world finally wake up and realize how fucking awesome i am??? (joking, no really i’m joking).

So here i am, after not having steady work, other than being a receptionist, in almost 2 years, after about 5 balks (i’m sticking with the baseball references, well so far as i can) from the consulting group, 2 companies that wanted me and then closed the position, NOW, in ONE day, i’m suddenly the man, and 2 people are after me? it’s too much, it’s too strange, it’s not real.

so here’s the capper, right when i was canned and worried about money, i could usually only get like 2 hrs of sleep (time for the booze to wear off) and then would wander the apartment in brooklyn or look for jobs at 3 am. So you’d think i’d be sleeping like a baby last nite. Nope. 2:30 am, boom wake up (after the booze wore off) and couldn’t sleep. I got up and looked at cars online, oh yeah that’s right, i need a car now. I can’t tell you how amusing that process will be.

so kids, thanks for all the support, it’s been a blast. i’m gonna shed this “unemployed” street credit for some 8-5ish, lunch at a chain resturant in a strip mall, office in an office park stability. (did you see how i made not having a future almost hip and romantic? it’s amazing how i can delude myself).