The Interview

Well, I don't think the interview went all that well. The interviewer started out by stating that this job was not a 9 to 5 job, that it took the willingness to work as long as necessary in a given week to get the work done. He lost me right about there. I've already done that. I don't want to do that anymore, unless it's something I really enjoy doing. This job would be too much of a struggle for me intellectually to enjoy doing it 60 hours a week. And yes, you can get compensated very well financially by working your ass off, but my soul can't take that tradeoff anymore. Could I handle this for a limited period of time? Maybe, but I don't think I would enjoy it much.

The interviewer really didn't ask a lot of the typical interview kind of questions. He did kind of zero in on why I left my last job, and my answer was poor and pretty much made me look like a dumbass. He was also very curious to know why I would leave my last job without already having another one. Of course the real answer is that I was fired, but I wasn't going to say that unless totally backed into a corner. But I think he had his suspicions. This is one question that I really need to come up with a better answer for in any future interviews.

I pretty much lack any experience in the field that this job would be in, and I think that was pretty obvious. I think from their standpoint hiring me would be about the same as hiring someone straight out of college due to all the training that I would require. And they can probably get away with paying someone right out of college less. So, at this point I'm kind of hoping that they don't offer me this job. I don't think it would be a good match. I can chalk up this interview to being good practice. This was my first job interview in 7 years, so I guess it's not too surprising that I would be a bit rusty.