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14 January 2008

Fingers crossed, people! Job interview in 189 minutes....[More:]

I'm making notes! With questions to ask! They like that, right?
YAY! Good luck, pupps!

BTW, the best job interview advice I ever heard was given by this guy to a friend of mine. He told her:

"Put peanut butter in your shoes. That way, if things start to get too serious or the people there start making you feel uptight, you can just sit back and smile to yourself, because only you will know... you have peanut butter in your shoes."
posted by BoringPostcards 14 January | 14:01
woohee! Good luck!

BP, they'll just think you're wearing a stinky-shoe+peanut butter cologne.
posted by small_ruminant 14 January | 14:24
here's hoping, pup!
posted by Miko 14 January | 14:36
You'll do great and be offered the job!
posted by danf 14 January | 14:38
Luck! Lots of it! Yay!
posted by occhiblu 14 January | 14:40
Good luck, mud!
posted by iconomy 14 January | 14:54
Luck!
posted by deborah 14 January | 15:02
*crosses fingers*
posted by TheDonF 14 January | 15:28
Here's mud in your eye!
posted by rainbaby 14 January | 15:56
Did you nail it?
posted by pokermonk 14 January | 15:58
I need an update!!!
posted by ramix 14 January | 18:11
Good luck!
posted by sperose 14 January | 18:48
So? How did it go?
posted by bmarkey 14 January | 19:21
Eh, it was okay I guess. The made a point of telling me how many really qualified candidates they had, which I think probably means that they have people with deeper journalistic backgrounds than I have. (Both of the women interviewing me are former journalists, so I think that's probably their bias.)

They're going to be screwed if they go that route, though, because there are some non-journalistic aspects to the job that an ambitious writerly type (which I am not) is going to balk at.

So hopefully they'll see that I'm what they need, but I'm not really holding out a whole lotta hope anymore.

And I'm coming down with a cold and I feel crappy!

Anyway, thanks for all the good wishes.
posted by mudpuppie 14 January | 20:08
You never know, pup. You never know.

Sorry you're feeling poorly; I'm coping with the aftermath of some guacamole that had apparently gone south. Pray for me.
posted by bmarkey 14 January | 20:16
I hope you get this one, mudpuppie. I know that if I want something bad enough, I do well on the interview. I think the worst interview I ever gave was for a job deep down inside I really knew I didn't want. I know I didn't pull out my lucky socks for that interview, and that says a lot.

(I have a pair of socks that depict women diving on them. Every interview I've worn them to, I've been offered the job. Now I'm thinking I should wear them on dates....)
posted by eekacat 14 January | 21:55
I read that as socks that having women driving on them. That seemed odd.

Mudpuppie, I am sure they loved you. And if they didn't love you, then I am sure we will all go beat them up for you.
posted by occhiblu 14 January | 22:13
Fingers crossed!
posted by brujita 15 January | 02:30
Warning: Major Cuteness alert. || omg coyote!

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