#vp is jorbing

[velocipedestrienne]

Also, I hate seeing job listings that I'm not *quite* qualified for, like I'm pretty sure my lacks are the ones they are going to care about and it's not super clear on paper that I am great, because these jobs sound like fun and I wish I had a shot at them.

[velocipedestrienne]

I would like to go on the record to say that, while I know I am learning a lot every day and I know I have a long way to go, I would like to note that I am, as it were, killing it at my new job.

[velocipedestrienne]

My new store has two floors and the last two days of jogging up and down a massive flight of stairs has made me feel like I've been running on the elliptical for eight hours a day.

My thighs, my thighs.

[velocipedestrienne]

In other OTHER news, I start working in Union Square tomorrow and Laura and I are talking about all of my food options for lunch and I'm so exciiiiiteeeed.

[velocipedestrienne]

[velocipedestrienne]

I can't say much but that something MAJOR just happened for me in jorb terms and basically I feel like I can breathe again.

[velocipedestrienne]

Another question:

If I apply to a job I interviewed several rounds for last year but didn't get, should I mention that in my cover letter? How do you do that? If I don't mention it now, should I mention it later? What is protocol here?

[velocipedestrienne]

[velocipedestrienne]

I've spent the last 24 hours thinking a lot about what I want to do regarding the next year of my life, especially after that weirdo interview yesterday. And honestly, it would probably be a good job, but it was pretty clear yesterday that she didn't really respect me creatively, even though she basically made me tell her about the creative things I work on in my spare time, and I'm not really sure I want to work in a very small office of people who can't hide that during an interview.

And I think what I'm going to do is commit fully to this position that's been basically offered to me (we're talking again next week) at my retail job, and spent the next 6-12 months growing in that company and position, and spend my days off (which will be during the week, considering that I'll still have to work most weekends probably) doing an internship somewhere (or several somewheres, if it's that length of time, really). I'm also going to spend a lot more time committed to writing, because I'm really tired of being like 'Well, I'm working on a novel but it's not done yet' and I'd like to just FINISH IT ALREADY. And I've been rabidly reading Alan Sepinwall's THE REVOLUTION WAS TELEVISED (which, if you are a TV person and you haven't read it, go immediately, do not pass go, be warned it is spoiler-heavy) which has made me dig back into my screenwriting.

Mostly yesterday she asked me what I really, really wanted to do in five years, and I've been thinking about that a lot, and since I've been in survival mode for so long, I'd forgotten that my five-year goal was to be writing for the screen, if not staffed on a TV show. And I want to keep myself writing and creating and on the path for that.

And also I'm like 80% sure I just found my roommate for the spring, which I was stressed about, but now I'm not anymore because this is what I was wanting and I wasn't sure it would work out. BUT I THINK IT WILL.

All in all yesterday was a WEIRD day, very up and down and all over the place, but I think it really made me think and get some things settled in my mind, and for that I am super glad. These are, I guess, my New Year's resolutions, since I never actually made any.

[velocipedestrienne]

I'm still going over my interview from this morning. It was just so...weird. She obviously liked me, and said that even though my resume doesn't match what they're looking for, she loved my cover letter and thought that I seemed like a very honest, hardworking person. And she basically forced me to tell her that I want to be a writer and that I'm currently writing a young adult science fiction novel (which she was very into talking about, by the way) (I didn't open with that one, obviously, because that is NOT the job I was interviewing for).

So basically if I don't get this job, it's because they found someone who's a quality person and who has experience. Which in NYC they probably will. At least I'll definitely hear from her tomorrow, at the latest, she said.