# I have a job interview in two hours **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043 "2003-05-28T15:59:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/1 "2003-05-28T15:59:11Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Mithril](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mithril/32/3517_2.png) [@Mithril](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mithril)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/2 "2003-05-28T16:31:33Z")
Good luck! I just got a job today, so I’m sending you my extra employment karma. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/3 "2003-05-28T16:40:11Z")
Sending up a prayer 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/4 "2003-05-28T18:14:49Z")
I thought you already got that job? Were you just lying to impress me? LOL! Well, good luck anyway! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/5 "2003-05-28T18:39:30Z")
Secretary is a girl job. :::d&r::: Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/6 "2003-05-28T19:01:02Z")
Best of luck, **Troy McClure**! Tell us how it goes 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/7 "2003-05-28T19:08:14Z")
Hopefully soon you’ll be saying “you may remember me from such previous jobs as Cala”. 🙂 Good Luck ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/8 "2003-05-28T19:29:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/9 "2003-05-28T20:51:58Z")
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. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![White\_Lightning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@White\_Lightning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Lightning)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/10 "2003-05-28T21:06:54Z")
Wow, good luck! That job sounds _nice_. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-job-interview-in-two-hours/178043/11 "2003-05-28T23:36:50Z")
Good luck! My standard advice: Smile alot!