2 months and counting
Jun. 16th, 2004 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaeclecticI am stunned to realize I have been out of work for two months. No wonder it is starting to bother me.
*sigh*
I do have another phone interview this week, this one at Oracle (not the position where I dropped James' name because I knew he knew the person from his internship there, another one that was just in the BayCHI listing this week). Not that I am extremely optimistic: in our email exchanges, the person already alluded to not being sure I have enough UI experience. Which doesn't mean she wouldn't hire me, otherwise she wouldn't be wasting time talking to me, but it does suggest that the pay scale might be lowered accordingly.
I guess rationally I should not be discouraged. I just hate the whole process.
Also, I really do need to apply for one of those jobs at Sun. I contacted one of my buddies there to get more info, but he hasn't gotten back to me -- I'd really like to at least know what group it is, and whether I know any of them, the better to write a coherent cover letter. I need to either bug him again, or talk to someone else. It all gets complicated, what with personalities and perpetual reorg and not wanting to come off too pushy (yet wanting to be assertive and interested and perky, gaaaah), and in particular (shhh!) needing to maneuver around knowing of some people there who I don't want to work for...
*sigh*
I do have another phone interview this week, this one at Oracle (not the position where I dropped James' name because I knew he knew the person from his internship there, another one that was just in the BayCHI listing this week). Not that I am extremely optimistic: in our email exchanges, the person already alluded to not being sure I have enough UI experience. Which doesn't mean she wouldn't hire me, otherwise she wouldn't be wasting time talking to me, but it does suggest that the pay scale might be lowered accordingly.
I guess rationally I should not be discouraged. I just hate the whole process.
Also, I really do need to apply for one of those jobs at Sun. I contacted one of my buddies there to get more info, but he hasn't gotten back to me -- I'd really like to at least know what group it is, and whether I know any of them, the better to write a coherent cover letter. I need to either bug him again, or talk to someone else. It all gets complicated, what with personalities and perpetual reorg and not wanting to come off too pushy (yet wanting to be assertive and interested and perky, gaaaah), and in particular (shhh!) needing to maneuver around knowing of some people there who I don't want to work for...