# I finally have a job interview!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025 "2005-03-31T00:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/1 "2005-03-31T00:12:55Z")
After a long dry spell… well since October really… I have a job interview and it is for a job I actually want. Well, after submitting over 50 applications, the statistics had to be good for getting an interview. I am filled with joy… things may actually start to work out after all\* and I won’t have to look into selling a kidney on the black market to pay my bills. 😃 \*My sister in law found a job after being unemployed for 6 months, my best friend is moving here from Chicago to start a new job and now I might actually get a job after being unemployed for nearly 6 months. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/2 "2005-03-31T00:35:51Z")
Congratulations! That’s excellent news!!! GT ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/3 "2005-03-31T00:41:51Z")
Congratulations! good luck and knock 'em dead! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/4 "2005-03-31T01:09:42Z")
Great news, good luck!!! I have been going back and forth with e-mail to a job prospect. I think I might get an interview out of them, but it’s hard to say. Some places are just so persnickety about their requirements, it tends to piss me off, but I need to control my emotions. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/5 "2005-03-31T20:06:08Z")
Well, I just got back from my interview. It was nearly an hour and a half, longer than any other I had been on before. The funny thing was, I was so relaxed, the answers just came to me and I feel like I had a _really_ good response from the people interviewing me. I am usually a bundle of raw nerves during interviews. They also asked me “when we extend a job offer, how soon would you be able to start” I have never had that asked in an interview… it sounds so darn promising. They said I would be hearing back from them in a few days. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/6 "2005-03-31T21:25:15Z")
That does indeed sound promising! Hooray! Good luck and keep us informed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/7 "2005-03-31T21:30:11Z")
And I was just about to e-mail you to see how things were going… What would you be doing in this prospective position? ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/8 "2005-03-31T21:50:49Z")
Second that “What will you be doing” question…is your user name a hint as to your fame as a geologist? Two things: (from personal experience) [ul] [li]Do NOT get all freaked out if they don’t call in 1 day. It’s really easy for me to say, because I’ve done it every time.[/li][li]Don’t stop looking in the meantime. Just because you have one good lead doesn’t mean you shoudl stop pounding the pavement.[/li][/ul] Good Luck! ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/9 "2005-04-01T01:28:50Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > What would you be doing in this prospective position? The job is for a staff scientist/geologist position at an environmental consulting firm. A friend of mine worked for this company at this office. She recently moved to Arizona and just transferred to another office with the same company. So it is a great company to work for. I have no intention of giving up looking for work until I get and accept a job offer. Over the last 6 months (well October basically, havent had an interview since then) I have dealt with a few interviews that seemed good, but I didn’t get the job, but I didn’t do well in the interview and I knew it (you know, interviewers are like dogs- they can smell fear & desparation 😃 ) The rest of the time, I never heard anything back, even after calling to confirm that they received my resume and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/10 "2005-04-01T01:32:49Z")
darn… I hit submit instead of preview. Anyway, I don’t expect to hear anything until at least next week at the earliest. I am keeping my fingers crossed and hopefully this will happen for me whoo hooo!!! ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/11 "2005-04-01T22:36:46Z")
I Got The Job!!! Yay!!! No more unemployment for me. Thanks for all the luck you guys were sending my way!! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/12 "2005-04-01T23:11:24Z")
> [@LVgeogeek](#): > > I Got The Job!!! Yay!!! > > No more unemployment for me. Thanks for all the luck you guys were sending my way!! {{{{{LVGeogeek} 🙂 } 🙂 } 🙂 } 🙂 } 🙂 (that’s happy hugs) and congratulatory backslapping from me… ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/13 "2005-04-01T23:23:05Z")
Too cool!!! Outstanding news! (Why aren’t there happy dance smilies?) 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 🙂🙂🙂🙂 🙂🙂🙂🙂 🙂 GT ---
**Author:** ![legion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/838e76/32.png) [@legion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legion)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/14 "2005-04-01T23:40:16Z")
> [@LVgeogeek](#): > > I Got The Job!!! Yay!!! > > No more unemployment for me. Thanks for all the luck you guys were sending my way!! Sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/15 "2005-04-01T23:59:56Z")
Congratulations **LVgeogeek**! Wishing you luck and joy in your new career! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Foible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Foible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foible)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-have-a-job-interview/297025/16 "2005-04-02T00:34:09Z")
Yay from here too! Go out there and Geolog one for us dopers! Hmm, That doesn’t quite work. Do that geologist/scientist stuff and make us proud!