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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #210 on: May 25, 2008, 10:01:56 AM »
I've been headhunted several times. The last time was only two weeks ago.
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #211 on: May 28, 2008, 08:14:57 AM »
Yet another interview coming up.  This one I'm really excited about.

Delta Products, working in their electronics R&D lab.
http://www.deltartp.com/

Monday afternoon...  I acted like a complete idiot on the phone.  I didn't prepare for the call well enough.  I hope that doesn't affect my chances.

Also have a date with a new girl this weekend. 
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #212 on: May 28, 2008, 02:30:41 PM »
Good luck with the interview. :)
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #213 on: May 28, 2008, 02:38:10 PM »
Good luck with the interview. :)

and the date.   :thumbup:

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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #214 on: May 29, 2008, 11:49:11 PM »
Yet another interview coming up.  This one I'm really excited about.

Delta Products, working in their electronics R&D lab.
http://www.deltartp.com/

Monday afternoon...  I acted like a complete idiot on the phone.  I didn't prepare for the call well enough.  I hope that doesn't affect my chances.

Also have a date with a new girl this weekend. 

That one looks so cool good luck
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #215 on: May 30, 2008, 11:25:25 AM »
Yet another interview coming up.  This one I'm really excited about.

Delta Products, working in their electronics R&D lab.
http://www.deltartp.com/

Monday afternoon...  I acted like a complete idiot on the phone.  I didn't prepare for the call well enough.  I hope that doesn't affect my chances.

Also have a date with a new girl this weekend. 

Awesome, prospects!


I'm putting in a good word for you with Lady Luck on the girlfriend idea. Lady Luck can be "quite the lady" when she's horny.
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #216 on: June 02, 2008, 06:57:25 PM »
Well, the interview went horrible.  It was by far the worst interview of my life, and quite possibly one of the most embarrassing and humiliating experiences I've had in a long time.  I was getting grilled by four people with a PhD in electrical engineering about electrical theory.  I blanked on so many questions.  I know the answer to them now, but I just couldn't come up with them.  Ohm's law, I studied that, I know that...  One guy just kept going, making me draw schematics, draw what this signal would do in this circuit, that circuit etc..  Eventually the guy who invited me to the interview stopped the asshole before he could go any further, thanked me for coming in and told me that I didn't have the education they needed.  Obviously... it says so right there on my fucking resume.  I was humiliated, I felt completely undermined, as though I was an idiot.  I just drove home and cried.  I couldn't help it... I had so worked myself up.  I thought that I had it in the bag, I was confident.  I was wrong.
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #217 on: June 03, 2008, 01:06:45 AM »
:hug:

I have had interviews like that before and they suck.

You will do better in the next one.

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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #218 on: June 03, 2008, 04:41:42 AM »
What arseholes.  >:(

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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #219 on: June 03, 2008, 05:02:24 AM »
Did they look at your resume?  You should bill them for your time
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #220 on: June 03, 2008, 08:44:48 AM »
I've been headhunted several times. The last time was only two weeks ago.

Most of those who headhunted me were heads themselves.

I never found a way to trust them, even when I tried.
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #221 on: June 03, 2008, 10:21:22 AM »
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #222 on: June 06, 2008, 02:10:14 PM »
I had another job interview today...  The interview went alright, but, my headhunter was mistaken about the job.  It's not in Raleigh after all, it's in Wilson, 60 miles away.  After the interview she was asking me if I'd want to drive all that way.  I told her that I'd rather not... she informed me of the wonderful opportunities of living in Zebulon half way between, and assured me that a lot of young couples were moving out there.  <twitch>  I kindly told her that we had just recently bought our house, and reminded her that we have just found out that my wife is pregnant, so a move just wouldn't work for now.  She asked me again if I wanted to make the drive from Apex.  I told her that it's a 60 mile drive one way, that's 120 miles per day.  My car gets about 25 miles per gallon, and at 120 miles per day it is aprox. 4.8 gallons per day, and at $4.00 per gallon that's $19.20 per day in gas alone, and assuming that I get paid around $15.00 per hour, that's almost an hour and a half of working just to pay to have a job, not to mention the two hours per day of driving, which makes it 3.5 hours per day wasted.  She then asked... "So you don't want the job?"  I told her that I don't think I'll accept it.
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #223 on: June 06, 2008, 05:02:01 PM »
Zebulon what a weird name for a town that alone would be reason to live there :laugh:
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Re: OK. Go ahead.
« Reply #224 on: June 07, 2008, 05:25:17 AM »
My car gets about 25 miles per gallon, and at 120 miles per day it is aprox. 4.8 gallons per day, and at $4.00 per gallon that's $19.20 per day in gas alone, and assuming that I get paid around $15.00 per hour, that's almost an hour and a half of working just to pay to have a job, not to mention the two hours per day of driving, which makes it 3.5 hours per day wasted.  She then asked... "So you don't want the job?"  I told her that I don't think I'll accept it.
I think that this a perfectly acceptable reason for not taking the job.

I was in similar circumstances where I said no to a job and then I was criticised for it. Stuff them. Why should I travel to work and then spend hours working just to pay for petrol?
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