Handy Dandy Notebook

My damn-it-I-have-to-look-for-a-job adventures are a mad Giga Coaster ride. Sometimes, it is hard to believe that you are about to enter a different phase of life and you, unconsciously, enters this phase as if it is mandatory–but you actually say to yourself that it is indeed something not required for life (or, at least, not yet): “Nah, I’ll gonna rest first after several years of academic stress” . Then, after bragging and believing that work can wait for you, your eye flesh suddenly sticks on the different job openings on JobStreet. So, you really don’t want to work yet, huh?

There are so many job application memories my brain holds right now but I’ll try to tell several ones from the top of my head:

1. Knowing someone in the interview line who knows someone who knows someone I once knew. The world gets smaller every single day.
2. Peeking at my fellow applicant’s resume and realizing s/he graduated Magna cum laude. Now this is competition.
3. Asking my fellow interviewee if we need to shake the hands of the interviewers before the interview. Or do we need to shake their hands after? Or before and after? Do we need to initiate it? Or do we need to wait for them to shake ours? This is the worst issue I have, seriously.
4. Looking and/or staring at the company’s employees and evaluating their happiness index
5. Planning creative ways on how to start a conversation with a fellow applicant next to me. “Hey, beautiful girl, I could be chasing, but my time would be wasted. They got nothin’ on you baby” LOL

These are just few of them. Although I want to spill so much information, I can’t–the companies I applied for might sue me or blacklist me altogether. Haha, but because I cannot contain these stories and I want them to be shared with someone (or something at that), I got an old, little notebook where I write all my job application stories. It really helps me to be enthusiastic about applying for a job. These are some of the things I write there:

1. The companies/positions I applied for and my applications status/progress for each item
2. My uncommon, trademark answers to common interview questions. BADASS!
3. Random stories about my job application adventures such as those listed above

A Mussy Fussy Handy Dandy Notebook

You might ask: Why didn’t I just put up a private blog (considering I’m a blogger)? Well, I have one, but I don’t really update it a lot. It’s still priceless to see your doodles in black ink glory. I’m enjoying writing in this little notebook so far–but I have to make sure I’ll stop sometime soon. And you know why. :)