Shake shake shake…
Oh. Sorry, I didn’t see you there. I was just …um… shaking up my life I guess… er… yeah.
Wednesday afternoon I woke up on a plane landing in Charlotte. Amid all the clatter about staying seated, the grabbing of luggage, and the filing off of the plane, I thought to myself, “What am I doing in Charlotte??”
The answer came to me a few minutes later as I lifted my new suitcase from the luggage carousel, “I’m shaking… shaking up my life a little”
Roughly three months ago I was starting school again. As I have done for the last 15 years. But this year it was different. This year was the last time, and I could smell it. What I definitely couldn’t smell was visiting two states I had never been to in my life before the winter break. Sure I wanted it, and planned to hit the job market scene hard, but for some reason I had very little confidence.
I thought I was bound to be a buyer for Honeywell.
Then I handed out 25 (or more… I honestly lost count at 23 or 24) resumes at Career Fiesta.
Now I am resting after a long day of back to back to back interviewing matched with “socializing” which is code for more interviewing and “eating” which is code for more interviewing while trying not to spill on yourself.
Now I have interviewed with 4 companies for 6 positions spanning 13 interviews. Among those 13, 7 have been second round interviews, spread between 3 companies. I was turned down for one of the positions after the first interview. I have been offered one job, and one internship thus far. There is still one company yet to get back to me regarding my first round interview. And there are now two companies yet to get back to me regarding my second round interviews. I canceled a first round interview with a 5th company because I knew I wasn’t even slightly interested in the position, and think that I probably blew a shot at two other first rounders with two other companies just because I was lazy. Oh, and I have one more first round interview scheduled for this Wednesday.
My life has been shaken up to say the least, and while I feel like I am approaching the home stretch of the search/interviewing, I can’t even imagine the shake up to come in late May or June when (if) I start.
Shake shake shake.
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