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Day Job, Job Search and Exhaustion
Nov. 22nd, 2019 11:06 amIt took me two hours to get home last night. TWO. FUCKING. HOURS. It usually takes me on average about one hour and change, but Thursday's traffic included a twenty-minute backup at the Bay Bridge tolls (thanks to solo idiots in the carpool lane trying to squeeze into the cash line at the last second) (noted: East Bay drivers are all either insane or idiots, but that's another gripe entirely), backup in downtown SF, an idiot Uber driver stopping in an open lane, and the best one: a fire truck double-parking to take care of a sick person on the sidewalk, and the bus next to me cutting me off and THEN stopping in the second lane to let off/on passengers. Not to mention me almost hitting a pedestrian in the crosswalk because oncoming traffic causing glare.
Don't get me wrong -- I feel for all of you commuters out there who have to contend with this on a daily basis, and for a longer distance. I'm lucky that my trip is only about 30 miles and relatively smooth sailing (aside from the Ninth Circle of Hell that is the McArthur Maze. Whoever planned that abomination needs to be flayed.) My anger is not towards the commute itself: my anger is firmly directed at Upper Management at my Day Job who are putting me through this completely unnecessary bullshit Because Teamwork! and all those other horseshit excuses they keep giving me.
Sad News: I did not get that Possible Job Opening I so dearly wished for. You guessed it: "we went with someone with more experience."
Not So Sad News: The business was so impressed with my interviews that they were convinced I'd otherwise be a really good fit there, and highly suggested I try out for other positions there.
I'm still a bit annoyed that I didn't get the job (again: how the hell do I get experience when it's so goddamn hard to break in and get it in the first place?), but on the plus side, that was a really unexpected personal rejection call and I'm touched they did that. I've been impressed with the business so far that yes, I will most definitely try out for other positions there. I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that ever did that.
It's like getting a personal rejection letter from an editor or agent that took the time to say they'd like to work with me in the future. I've never gotten that before.
In other news, I hate that I'm so freaking EXHAUSTED by the time Friday rolls around. I really don't want to end up wasting all my evening hours doing nothing when that's the only time that I can truly dedicate time for my writing.
Bleh. Hope everyone has a good (and less tiring) weekend!
Don't get me wrong -- I feel for all of you commuters out there who have to contend with this on a daily basis, and for a longer distance. I'm lucky that my trip is only about 30 miles and relatively smooth sailing (aside from the Ninth Circle of Hell that is the McArthur Maze. Whoever planned that abomination needs to be flayed.) My anger is not towards the commute itself: my anger is firmly directed at Upper Management at my Day Job who are putting me through this completely unnecessary bullshit Because Teamwork! and all those other horseshit excuses they keep giving me.
Sad News: I did not get that Possible Job Opening I so dearly wished for. You guessed it: "we went with someone with more experience."
Not So Sad News: The business was so impressed with my interviews that they were convinced I'd otherwise be a really good fit there, and highly suggested I try out for other positions there.
I'm still a bit annoyed that I didn't get the job (again: how the hell do I get experience when it's so goddamn hard to break in and get it in the first place?), but on the plus side, that was a really unexpected personal rejection call and I'm touched they did that. I've been impressed with the business so far that yes, I will most definitely try out for other positions there. I don't think I've ever worked anywhere that ever did that.
It's like getting a personal rejection letter from an editor or agent that took the time to say they'd like to work with me in the future. I've never gotten that before.
In other news, I hate that I'm so freaking EXHAUSTED by the time Friday rolls around. I really don't want to end up wasting all my evening hours doing nothing when that's the only time that I can truly dedicate time for my writing.
Bleh. Hope everyone has a good (and less tiring) weekend!
