Guess What!
No seriously. Guess! OK, I’ll tell you… I have a job interview on Monday! Its at my same plant, but it is a big promotion and hopefully a less stressful job. Plus, I’ve been in my job 2 years now and that’s about 2 years too long. I’m ready.
I have gotten a lot better lately about not watching too much TV. I tend to like it on for company, but Ryan is very anti, so I’m trying to limit the amount of tube time. But, I do have a slight obsession with three shows: Project Runway, Grey’s Anatomy, and The Amazing Race. I can’t really get Ryan to watch any of these with me, but last night he actually committed himself to 10 minutes of TAR. I’ve always told him we should audition for that show. We would totally kick ass. We’re both pretty athletic, we’ve traveled quite a bit, we’re campers so we know how to rough it, and as sad as it is… he’s a firefighter and they haven’t had that angle yet. That’s right, I’m willing to take advantage of that for a possible million dollars.
But what would it say at the bottom of the screen when we were doing the obligatory trash-the-other-teams interviews? “Ryan/Amanda…. Firefighter/???”. I think I’ve probably said it before, but it really is hard to be the one with the uncool job. Not that I talk about what my job is here, but you know I’m an engineer. Engineer=nerd. So what would I prefer?
I graduated from college w/ a guy named Pete. He just last year married a girl who was on Survivor, and when her season was on TV, he was sent to the island as a contest prize (which she didn’t win). OK this guy is brilliant. He got recruited to work at Jet Propulsion Laboratory straight out of college and he designed the Mars Rover. Seriously. So what do you think it said at the bottom of his screen when he was getting ready to walk the plank? “Pete/Race Car Driver”. Race car driver??? Because he’d told them that he’s gone to an non-pro course for fun sometimes. Race car driver!
So now I’ve got this interview on Monday and I can’t help but think… is it worth pushing my way up this ladder? A job I don’t like and a career I’m not passionate about? Daily sexual and age discrimination? Or do I want to find a different tag to go after my name? Well, for the time being I’m gonna kick arss at the interview, but then its soul-searching time…
