In Which We Are Freaking Out, But Not as Badly as Some

We totally should have watched "Hairspray" instead of "Benny and Joon!" My friend, who packed up all her worldly possessions to move to Spokane for a new job, quit after a month! She said to her friend, who instigated the move, "Did you know this job was this bad?" And the friend said, "Sort of. But I thought you would really like Spokane and you could get another job."

Ruhlly?

Does anyone like Spokane that much?

The upside of my friend's freakout is that she got a much bettah job in Maryland, and is, as we speak, acclimatizing to the land of crabcakes and The Wire.

My own self, I had to interview for a new job this week. I prepared for this principally by picking out what accessories to wear. This kind of behavior causes my friend, who I'll call Mr. Corporate, to roll his eyes at me a lot. Mr. Corporate would prepare for a job interview by researching employer retirement fund contributions and planning to ask for a golf club membership as a signing bonus.

I do not work in a field where people get things like signing bonuses. I work in a field where you have to earn seniority before you are allowed to order your own office supplies.

Sometimes even then they make you choose between new rollerball pens and colored file folders.

My own freakout this Labor Day weekend consists of wondering if I could sit in a darkened room with my forehead resting on the desk for the next two weeks until I find out if the choice of accessories worked or not.

Either way, I'm sure of a couple of things: A) No way am I moving to Spokane; and B) If I leave my job I'm taking my rollerball pens with me.


--saifun