The Office

I've never had to really prepare myself for a job interview. Every summer I'd go around to every restaurant that was possibly hiring filling out an application and if they called, great, then I had a job for those 2-3 months. I've never actually had to worry about what to wear or what I was going to say. Today, however, clad in my black pants, collared shirt, sweater, and black stilettos, I arrived to my job interview at the same office building that just so happens to be my dad's old office building where my brother, sister, & I would spastically run around asking my dad for 35 cents so we could get yet another soda out of the old fashioned soda machine. The same office that my young dad took his diaper-wearing child (aka me circa 1987) for a relaxing day of work one Saturday only to be stuck dealing with the mess I decided to leave when my diaper didn't quite work out. Anywho, hair straightened (and probably nearly fried), lip gloss on, and palms sweaty, I headed in having absolutely no idea what to expect. Trying to act as professional as my 20 (and 8 months) year old self can be, I made my way to the office and was dismayed to find that the old soda machine no longer existed. Nonetheless I met my interviewers and sat down to find that I was not going to be asked the less than 5 questions I was hoping for or that I am perhaps used to, but to be answering lengthy questions with lengthy replies that actually involved formulating sentences and paragraphs all while trying to subconsciously tell myself not to say "um" or "uh" and to avoid my habit of connecting every phrase with "and" so as to make one gigantic run-on sentence.

• Tell me about yourself and why you decided to apply.
• It says that you have experience working in a dr's office, please explain.
• What is your greatest strength?
• What is your biggest weakness?
• Describe yourself and how you are as a team player.
• What type of people do you find you don't like?
• In dealing with patients over the phone at the dr's office, what bothered you the most? And how did you react to it?
• Describe your typical day in the office and what duties you had.
• What type of computer experience do you have?
• In the dr's office, did they have a scheduling program and how did it work?
• Describe a situation in which you had to multitask and prioritize.
• How do you keep yourself organized?
• What do you do with tasks that you don't like to do?

Just a glimpse of what those 45 minutes were filled with. AND THEN, they decided to whip out a script they had kept hidden the entire time like a teacher announcing a pop quiz in which I had to call one of my interviewers who briefly returned to his office and remind him of his appointment. Now, I would have been happier if my interviewer's last name wasn't Ciszewski. Those sz's always throw me off not to mention should the C be pronounced like a K or like an S?! By turn of luck, I actually pronounced it right (I know, go me).

I am actually really hoping for this job but I won't find out for 10 days since they have to make sure I'm not a serial killer or anything of the such. Until then, I'll continue my tv dates and starbucks dates with my bestest.