Friday, December 02, 2005

An interesting experience.

First of all I'll just say that I'm having a ton of connection problems, so if anyone wonders why I'm not on msn much or fail to update my blog, that's why. Stupid Aernet...anyways, on to my post. Yesterday I had the first job interview that I've had in over a year, and it went alright I guess. My dad has been bugging me to take a resume into Day & Ross for quite awhile now, so I finally took one in the other day. My parents wanted me to give it to whoever was in charge of hiring, but that person was out so I just handed it to the person at the front desk. I didn't really expect to get a call back merely an hour later (heck, I didn't expect to be called back at all), but call back they did. What was really odd was the guy asked me what day and time would be good for me. I was rather confused by this and it took me a minute to respond. So yesterday morning I went to my interview. After waiting at the front desk for a few minutes the guy in charge of hiring came and took me through the kahsi'r (sorry, Pepper jumped on the keyboard. I'll leave that in for effect) building. It was rather interesting walking through the building, despite the fact that I've been in it before when my dad was painting the offices. Once we got to his office he asked me what position I was applying for and then had me fill out this sheet of paper. It had a bunch of different qualities and I had to check the ones that I thought others would think would be important in me. It was kinda weird at first, and I had to fill out the same thing twice. I guess they use it to see if you check the same qualities. Anyways, after that he had me do a typing test to see what my wpm is. I was really stupid and didn't practice or anything beforehand, but maybe it was better that way. I thought I did pretty poorly since I'm not used to typing as fast and accurately as possible for five minutes straight, but I managed to average 58 wpm with 97% accuracy. Way better than I expected and the guy seemed impressed when he told me how I did. Next he took me to a cubicle and I had to do a series of tests. The first involved a series of two numbers in a column and I had to check whether they were the same or different. I did pretty good, but didn't manage to finish them all in the four minute time limit. Next I had a piece of paper with a series of numbers in different patterns and I had to figure out the pattern and write the next two numbers in order. Pretty easy at first but there were a couple that stumped me and I only got half way through before time ran out. And finally I had a test with a bunch of math and word problems and had to write the answers. I only got half way through this one too, but hopefully getting answers right makes up for not finishing. That was pretty much all there was to my interview. He told me to call another guy tonight to see what my outcome was on the tests, so I'll just have to wait to see what this guy has to say. I still don't know if I want the job that badly. It could mean no more helping out at youth and I wouldn't be able to chat on msn with my friends (since most of them are online at night), but at least I'd finally have an income. And I also won't be able to go to Ontario if I start work, but I guess I won't worry until I see if I got the job. Anyways, I'll stop rambling now. I have to try to get ahold of J-Ro so I can drag him to J-Hop's birthday party. Oh, I also cancelled my preorder of Guitar Hero because frickin EB was ticking me off by constantly changing the date that they're getting it in. I ordered it online which means I'll have to pay $40+ more, but at least I'll have it by the end of next week. And yes, I realize I crammed everything into a single paragraph, but I'm lazy today and don't feel like paying attention to proper writing.

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