My Journey from Dead End Job to Success

[passit1]

Thank you rebel100, Ploko, SuZQ2 and cstock. I appreciate your kind words...I didn't know anyone was reading this. Really was kind of an online journal after a bit.

My old company didn't call me back for that Strategic whatevertheheck it was deal. Which is for the best because it was the worst interview I had ever been on: about 85 degrees in the interview room, no job expectations to discuss, nowhere to lay my padfolio to jot down notes for follow up interviews..it was this funky IKEA living room chair and a side table too low to use routine....the HR person who was conferencing in by phone never asked a single question or even grunted an acknowledgement and the two interviewing me did not indicate their titles or if either one would be my manager should I be hired. Strange even for my old company.

Now the company who sent me the Excel test I opted out of finishing so as not to waste their time- they called! And really wanted to meet me. And I liked them. And the salary range was way more than I'm making now.
And the schedule was to work every weekend. Every. Weekend. Never heard a recruiter so disappointed when I told her I couldn't do it. It was nice to be wanted so much. But I just can't take that much time away from my family right now.

I'm going to keep looking for the right position. At least now I know what I want. And what I don't want.