Grilled again…presently very toasty
Bloody hell, had a horrendously long phone interview for an energy consultancy position and have absolutely bollocks idea as to how it went. One of the guys was British from Twickenham and the other chap was from Berkeley, so had sort of a geographical connection with both. Had some consultancy based questions which were tough to say the least, one was if I was on a conference call with two clients and one said bugger off to the other and hung up what would I do? At least that’s what I think the question was, bloody cellphone connections in this country are useless.
Crackling, hissing and ums aside from what I understood they are going to have a second round interview, which confused me a bit since I’ve already had a first round one with them. Also from what I gather I will have to flight out to DC for a presentation, bugger haven’t done a presentation in years (if anybody has any ideas for a completely odourless alcohol please let me know, thinking I’m going to need some Dutch courage). At the moment the timeframe is getting problematic with the last bunch letting me know tomorrow if I’m hired and I told them I’m available first week of June, crap.
Of course this will all be a moot point (or moo point as Joey would say) if both companies tell me to bugger off. Again, why did I leave the mortgage industry, where I could have been making a six figure salary in a couple of years? The doctor definitely shook me too hard when I was born!

Admittedly I don’t know you outside this blog, but perhaps you left the mortgage industry ‘cos it was just that - a six figure salary…and nothing else.
Personally I don’t agree with people who stay in jobs they despise and work insane hours just because it pays enough to (e.g.) maintain the posh house that they wouldn’t have wanted had they not had the money to buy it with in the first place (does that make sense?). So I admire your decision.
Re: phone interviews…never had one but I’ve heard they’re nasty! Relax with some Snow Patrol, why don’t you
Comment by PseudoRandom — May 25, 2006 @ 9:52 pm
As for odourless alcohol have a shot of Gin n tonic.
Comment by SpectralCentroid — May 26, 2006 @ 6:32 am
Vodka, Febreeze and breath-mints is my suggestion. Mortgage industry sounds boring as hell, no offence…! Prob why you quit it which suggests you weren’t shaken too bad when you were born. Presentations aren’t my strong point either, nerves make me come across as very smart arsy “so unless you’re a total RETARD you’d know that bla bla bla mutations result in Huntington’s Disease”…
Comment by Darwin — May 26, 2006 @ 7:33 am
PseudoRandom - hehe…have been listening to Snow Patrol and Everything but the Girl amongst others to calm my frayed nerves. I’m a bit weird in that I’m an environmentalist that likes cars, like my old one
…and yes phone interviews suck, I have enough trouble trying to concentrate when a real person is trying to talk to me, much less when the conversation is on the phone.
Darwin/Spectral – Thanks for the alcohol tips, will use it in my new job if things get out of hand, but isn’t Febreeze a carpet cleaner? And yes the mortgage industry is boring, but still gonna keep a finger in that pie cos of the sheer amount of cash that can be made!
Comment by childof25 — May 26, 2006 @ 7:48 am