It Overtakes Me...

(...the busy-ness of my last few weeks that is)

My social calendar has decided to rear its oversized head and gobble up much of the time I had previously devoted to my internet musings as of late. Poor internet musings! You must have felt so abandoned and underappreciated! *insert sniffles and tears here* ...WELL. I'm back! (Whether that is a good thing or not remains to be seen.)

Let's see. What seemingly unimportant news in AmyLand can I relate to you now? Well, for starters, I have managed to accomplish very little on the job front (aside from getting the official "thanks but no thanks" from my hopeful employer, Philadelphia Insurance). On the flip side, I DO finally have headshots to audition with! (Well, I have the sample pages... that's sort of the same thing, right?) Ahem. Anyway, so as soon as I get those bad boys printed, I can actually go out and do some real auditioning!!! (HOORAY!)

Hmm. Yeah, that doesn't cheer me up that much. Even with the photos finally done, I'm still hung up on the job. The job that had seemed to good to be true. The job that had the boss who I had so opportunely met and hit it off with at a random job fair for. The job that I had a pretty great interview for. But alas- the job that sent me an online "personality assessment" of 200 brain-numbing questions for. Yes, that's right. "Personality assessment." This is an online database that poses the inferred question, "Are you a PH.D? Because if you're not, you certainly can't be an entry level worker for our company." Take it from me, if Ben Stein was an internet exam, this would be it- not to mention the whole thing takes about 463746 hours to complete. This "test of personality" aka "I'm not sure I like your personality...DENIED" poses such thought-provoking questions as, "Pick the quality that is most and least like you- 'I am detail-oriented,' 'I prefer working in groups,' 'I'm a team-player,' 'I pick dandelions and talk to as many orange trash can lids as I can find in a given day' ... You get the picture.

(...And yes, I'm just a teensy bit bitter.)

Taking an extremely deep breath and moving on from my personality angst, I'm trying to view this recent rejection as a positive. So what if it was a salary of $35,000 to start with? ...(Positive, silly. They want the POSITIVE.) ...Right. Well, I just don't think a job just short of telemarketing would've suited me anyway. Maybe this is the big man upstairs' way of gently saying "C'MON KID. YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT! We BOTH know you woulda been miserable with that job. Now go do something you're good at, you silly goose!" :)

...At least, I hope that's what He's saying.

Stay tuned.