Yep, after almost three years of the salt mines known as Cala Foods, I’m interviewing for a real job!
My friend’s mother is the employee health nurse for Kaiser San Francisco, and she needs a secretary. It starts at $16/hr (I make $12.70 at Cala), and has I’d get benefits, paid holidays and vacations.
And, what may be the best part of it all, I get to sit in front of a computer all day (which is what I do anyway). I haven’t yet asked if I’ll have internet access, since I figure I should wait until I’m actually hired before I start pissing people off.
If I get this job, I’ll be able to work both there and at Kaiser all summer, and hopefully be able to buy a car in July or soon thereafter, pay for the initial costs of that and save up a bit for what is sure to be insane insurance premiums, and eventually quit Cala. My co-workers there are pretty good, but the company is run by trained monkeys, and my brain usually hurts when I read any of their inane, moronic memos. (They might as well say, “ssssssssssssss,” at least that would be entertaining.)
So I’m off to Opera Plaza* in about an hour, in my spiffy new shirt and tie (assuming I can remember how to tie the damn thing). I’ll have to tie the hair back pretty good, too, I suppose. How fun, I’ll be Mr. Establishment. Wish me luck, folks. Hopefully I’ll be paid to be on the SDMB!
*-Anyone else get the feeling that pretty soon, every inch of San Francisco will be property of Kaiser or UCSF?
I just got back. On the way there, I realized that this would be my first real job interview- all my previous employers would’ve taken my dog if she’d applied- so I read the newspaper so I wouldn’t get nervous. I made the interviewer/potential boss laugh a few times, so I figured that was good. However, I don’t know jack about MS Access, but I think she was satisfied at least with my computer knowledge. Plus my friend’s mom put in a good word for me. (I do her dishes when she invites me to dinner, she better put in a good word!) The interviewer seemed like a nice enough lady, and her office is at a different campus, so I’d really be reporting to Mom-of-friend on a daily basis, which would be a cakewalk.
Unfortunately, since they have to “go through the whole process and interview all the applicants” I won’t know anything for about a month. Good thing I didn’t quit Cala yet. Thanks for the support, all, and I’ll keep you posted.
I didn’t know MS Access at all when I started my job either, and never even got trained in it. It’s easy to learn and if there is already a database set up for you so you can just enter information and update stuff, it’s cake.
Wish me luck, folks. Hopefully I’ll be paid to be on the SDMB!