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24 July 2007

I have an interview tommorrow. It's just a bookstore job (at a well known New York independent). They say it's an 'informal interview' whatever that means. But after being in offices for four years, retail might be nice.
post by: jonmc at: 09:43 | 41 comments
Awesome, bro; good luck.
posted by Hugh Janus 24 July | 09:44
Good luck. I hope it's a good fit.
posted by danostuporstar 24 July | 09:47
Good luck jonmc!
posted by halonine 24 July | 09:47
Break a leg, bud!
posted by BoringPostcards 24 July | 09:49
Good luck!
posted by cobra! 24 July | 09:50
Break a leg!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 24 July | 09:50
Seems like it would be fun for you. And no more midnight Harry Potter parties to be pressed into!
posted by danf 24 July | 09:51
Awesome!
posted by rainbaby 24 July | 09:55
As Mama Rose would say,

You'll be swell!
You'll be great!
Gonna have the whole world on a plate!
Starting here, starting now, honey, everything's coming up roses!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 24 July | 10:00
Good luck!
posted by drezdn 24 July | 10:25
Awesome, good luck!
posted by LoriFLA 24 July | 10:25
Cry Havoc and Let Loose the Dogs of Interviewing! At least tuck in your shirt for chisssakes.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 July | 10:29
Hey, good luck. And if it doesn't work out, you could always drop everything, move to Arkansas and get a job shelving library books. I'm interviewing people today.
posted by box 24 July | 10:31
box, that sounds appealing.

wino: heh.

The last time the wino saw me was on my day of resume-ing about town. I looked so un-jonmc I think I scared him.
posted by jonmc 24 July | 10:34
I thought he was going to ask me if he could marry my daughter.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 July | 10:40
Which bookstore?
posted by interrobang 24 July | 10:55
Is it Strand Bookstore?
I used to work there. And, if I recall correctly, the interview was very informal. Good luck!
posted by the great big mulp 24 July | 10:56
Good luck!
posted by arse_hat 24 July | 11:01
Good luck sir.
posted by Capn 24 July | 11:04
Keepin' 'em all X'd for ya, dude.
posted by chewatadistance 24 July | 11:04
Welcome to the fraternity of independent bookstore workers! We'll have you sipping lattes while reading McSweeney's, sporting an ironic t-shirt while blogging about a recent David Cross sighting, and extolling the merits of the latest Death Cab for Cutie CD in no time flat!

Mwah ha ha!
posted by Atom Eyes 24 July | 11:06
Viel Glück! Show'em how learned you are.

Remember, don't bring a can of beer to the interview. However, if you must, hide the beer, wait until the interview is over and then drink it after you have left.

Trust me.
posted by chillmost 24 July | 11:12
Suerte! Jonmc, hope YOU like THEM.
posted by Wilder 24 July | 11:21
I thought he was going to ask me if he could marry my daughter.

You were cool about it. We could go to ball games..and I wouldn't even have to call you 'Dad.'
posted by jonmc 24 July | 11:21
The IRFHes have often dreamed of opening an indie bookstore on the coast as a semi-retirement strategy. If only I didn't hate people...
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 24 July | 11:43
Good luck!
posted by brujita 24 July | 11:43
I hope it's a good match for you both.
posted by essexjan 24 July | 11:46
In college, for a minute, I worked at a used bookstore that was infrequently open and strangely stocked, the owner would refuse to sell people books because he didn't "like the look of them." On the rare occasions when I was paid, I usually got a fistful of old singles and fives and whatever books the owner had seen me "eyeing", mostly pulp detective novels (many great Chester Himes with incredible covers among them) and super-pulp seventies porno books that taught me more about the value of proofing and copy edits than anything else. Oh, also what a "swope" was.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 July | 11:55
Swope said, "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
posted by Hugh Janus 24 July | 12:02
He must've said that in his sparse downtime, because in my experience he was almost constantly being "thrust relentlessly" into someone's "glistening femininity."
posted by Divine_Wino 24 July | 12:18
I send you all my recent good luck with interviews since I don't need it anymore, having obtained the job I wanted!
posted by mdonley 24 July | 12:39
I know you've worked in a bookstore before, but in the Indie interview just make sure to drop in the word "handselling." They'll eat that %$%# up.
posted by drezdn 24 July | 13:05
If it's at the Strand don't say handselling, just promise to be an insufferable cock at all times. If it's not at the Strand, for sure say handselling.
posted by Divine_Wino 24 July | 13:59
just promise to be an insufferable cock at all times

That's at the top of my resume, under the heading, "Goals and Accomplishments."
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 24 July | 14:05
I once failed the lit test to get a job at the Strand. So, jonmc, if this is indeed where you are interviewing, you're already a step ahead of me. :)

Also, if it is where you end up working (hopefully!) I will start tracking you down every time I'm in there. I'll show up, and you'll be like, "Can I help you?" and I'll be all, "OMG BUNNY!"
posted by brina 24 July | 14:45
Break a book spine (or a leg)!
posted by getoffmylawn 24 July | 15:19
Heh, I was just thinking yesterday "jonmc needs to get off that fucking porch soon or he will end up sitting there for the rest of his life", which would be a real shame. Interesting how you are coming full circle to some extent - a bookstore without a corporate image that you have to adhere to sounds like a good fit for you.

All the best with the interview. I really can't feel sorry for you though, because I am sitting on the other side of the interview desk today, so I have to focus on being all interrogative and shit.
posted by dg 24 July | 15:48
Good luck from the dark heart of the eviler* empire.

*Number two tries harder.
posted by Lentrohamsanin 24 July | 15:51
... just promise to be an insufferable cock at all times.

When I worked there, they specifically told us not to help customers, we were hired only to alphabetize books.
posted by the great big mulp 24 July | 17:28
They alphabetize? No matter. I love the hunt and peck of the place.

"Insufferable cock" pretty much defines my teaching philosophy. I have it printed on pencils.
posted by Pips 24 July | 19:55
Remember: Vasari is the guy who did "Lives of the Artists"

Good luck, man!
posted by jason's_planet 24 July | 21:02
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