2007-10-03
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I had a job interview today, THANK GOD, because I was beginning to think that I had put the wrong phone number on the 300 billion resumes I have sent out. The job is technically for a "Administrative Support Assistant," but it seems more to be for "Handler/Babysitter/Humanoid-Blackberry of the Sales Manager" which, in all honesty, doesn't sound that bad. My only concern is the way to two very nice ladies who interviewed me tended to describe the man whose assistant I would become. The phrase "very unique" was used half a dozen times, which makes me wonder if it is a polite euphemism for "complete douche bag". Other than possibly becoming the assistant to a real-life Michael Scott, the job sounded pretty nice: only 30 hours a week which would leave my afternoons free to go back to school, a salary that, while not overwhelming is a reasonable amount above minimum wage which is nice considering I have a college degree (unlike some employers who were complete cheapskate JACK HOLES), and has an office full of internet nerds which, yay! nerds.
I'm still not entirely sure what I want to do with, you know, my life. I don't really know if I want to take on yet another administrative position but my near-manic motivation to Change! My! Life! has leveled off to a mild sense of guilt that can easily be covered up with marathon viewings of Dexter and sleeping late into the morning. In fact, if it weren't for the infuriatingly slow and convoluted process that comes with applying for unemployment, I could easily accept a life of daytime television and sweatpants.
I'm still looking into going back to school next semester. Since the German major idea ist kaput I'm looking into my second option: International Studies. It's actually Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on European culture, but I would get to take all sorts of different classes(economics, art, geography, anthropology), be able to finish up those damned German classes AND spend a semester studying abroad (who knows, I might even learn her name **rimshot**). The catch is that this major would require many more classes, and in turn, a whole lot more student loans. The excitement of jumping into this new thing is tempered by the dread that the federal government will own my ass for the next few years for the tune of thousands of dollars. But that shouldn't stop me, right? (Right?)
corin82 at 7:44 p.m.