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Oct. 11th, 2006 01:45 pmJob-hunting is really tiring. I've sent out to quite a lot of people and I've heard back from... about three. None of which are really the job for me. The first interview I went for was for a Marketing Company who were saying I would have to start off on the phones in sales, but within about 6-10 months I should get promoted into management. Mmmhmm. Anyway, I got through their "intial interview" and I'm supposed to go in for a day of shadowing an account manager today so I can see the job I won't get until 6-10 months in action. Plus it's going to take me over an hour to get there for the start time using public transport. So I decided I'm going to call them up as soon as possible and cancel that. Since I know it's not a job I want.
Yesterday, I had an interview as an office clerk in a Financial company. The lady interviewing me was really nice, and actually she was the one who contacted me about the job. But she told me she was hesitant to do so, since I was over-qualified for the job. In fact she said the person I'd be replacing was leaving because she'd just got a degree in Psychology and she was going to work for the state. So she suggested I maybe look into that. But of all the three places I interviewed at so far, this was the place where I felt the most comfortable and at ease. The downside is, because of the job being entry level it would be $10.50 an hour, with not much room for promotion and such.
The other interview I went for wasn't really an interview as such. It was a job skills test that I took on a computer, testing my maths skills and a personality test. Which I "passed", then got invited to an hour and a half meeting yesterday afternoon/evening. So with the first interview yesterday morning and public transport being as it is. I decided it wouldn't be worth it to go back home on the bus/trax/bus because I'd have a max of about 1/2 hour at home before I had to head out again. So I went to where the next job interview was and spent four. Hours. Window shopping in the stores at the outdoor shopping center there. Which actually was the funnest part of my day. I went into the PetCo and saw two adorable Conures, called Henry and Clark. SOOO cute! Henry especially so. He was always hanging upside down in his cage by one claw. Hehe. There was also a really sweet and friendly rescue cat called Tipsy. I'd have loved to have got them all. But I don't think Hoggle, our bird, would have approved. :-p
Anyway, this latest interview/meeting was with Ameriprise, sounded really promising. But they would need me to study for and pay for my own qualifications to become a broker which here in Utah costs almost $1500, and we really don't have that kind of money to spend on that right now. Although, if it had been something I really wanted to do, we would have found a way. They reimburse you $1500 in the form of a starting bonus when you join. But of course that's dependent on you passing the exams and you only have 120 days to do that in. But if I did that and got the job then I'd have a baseline pay which would be about 25K, and then some commission based earnings on that and he said that people would be expected to earn 40-50K a year. But then he said that he expected people to work 55 hour weeks in their first year. That was the end point with this job for me. I'm not willing to risk my health, sanity and marriage on working a job that requires me to work that much. Simply not worth it.
*sigh* This job-hunting is so depressing that I think I'm going to have to give myself a few days break. I know it's not really what I should be doing, I should be carrying on looking. But job-hunting is very stressful to me, and it's pretty stressful for Mark too. So I think for our own sanity we need a few days break from job-talk.
Yesterday, I had an interview as an office clerk in a Financial company. The lady interviewing me was really nice, and actually she was the one who contacted me about the job. But she told me she was hesitant to do so, since I was over-qualified for the job. In fact she said the person I'd be replacing was leaving because she'd just got a degree in Psychology and she was going to work for the state. So she suggested I maybe look into that. But of all the three places I interviewed at so far, this was the place where I felt the most comfortable and at ease. The downside is, because of the job being entry level it would be $10.50 an hour, with not much room for promotion and such.
The other interview I went for wasn't really an interview as such. It was a job skills test that I took on a computer, testing my maths skills and a personality test. Which I "passed", then got invited to an hour and a half meeting yesterday afternoon/evening. So with the first interview yesterday morning and public transport being as it is. I decided it wouldn't be worth it to go back home on the bus/trax/bus because I'd have a max of about 1/2 hour at home before I had to head out again. So I went to where the next job interview was and spent four. Hours. Window shopping in the stores at the outdoor shopping center there. Which actually was the funnest part of my day. I went into the PetCo and saw two adorable Conures, called Henry and Clark. SOOO cute! Henry especially so. He was always hanging upside down in his cage by one claw. Hehe. There was also a really sweet and friendly rescue cat called Tipsy. I'd have loved to have got them all. But I don't think Hoggle, our bird, would have approved. :-p
Anyway, this latest interview/meeting was with Ameriprise, sounded really promising. But they would need me to study for and pay for my own qualifications to become a broker which here in Utah costs almost $1500, and we really don't have that kind of money to spend on that right now. Although, if it had been something I really wanted to do, we would have found a way. They reimburse you $1500 in the form of a starting bonus when you join. But of course that's dependent on you passing the exams and you only have 120 days to do that in. But if I did that and got the job then I'd have a baseline pay which would be about 25K, and then some commission based earnings on that and he said that people would be expected to earn 40-50K a year. But then he said that he expected people to work 55 hour weeks in their first year. That was the end point with this job for me. I'm not willing to risk my health, sanity and marriage on working a job that requires me to work that much. Simply not worth it.
*sigh* This job-hunting is so depressing that I think I'm going to have to give myself a few days break. I know it's not really what I should be doing, I should be carrying on looking. But job-hunting is very stressful to me, and it's pretty stressful for Mark too. So I think for our own sanity we need a few days break from job-talk.
