Job Interview #1

Hopefully...this will be the only job interview post...I had my first interview today...and I think I might be in trouble. I want this job so bad so it is going to be a major disappointment if I don't get this.

I interviewed today with Partner's Relief & Development. This is an amazing organization that helps displaced refugees in Burma. The organization is inspirational and amazing. Find out more about Partner's R&D here.

This was not any ordinary interview. I arrived and had difficulty getting into the building...let's just call that embarrassment #1. I get in there and am waiting for this man and an intern to finish a meeting. I am invited in to hear the conversation and end up giving advice we'll call this yay #1. I talked about bringing the art show to CBU and getting the IJM chapter involved. We'll see how this goes. I miss the name of the man interviewing me and I consider this embarrassment #2. After searching for plenty of places to meet in this tiny office mystery man says we'll have the interview at Coffee Bean...yay #2 in my eyes. I follow him to the coffee bean without getting lost so I'm happy. Finally, I get his name at Coffee Bean (Thank God you give your name at places like that...Spencer). He buys me a small iced americano and commends me for being cheap...yay #3. Spencer and I proceed to interview...pretty much a conversation about my leadership experience, missions experience and my connections (he knows my pastor...semi yay). The most unconventional interview I have been in to date. We end the conversation and I find out I won't know until Wednesday...this is going to be the longest 48 hours of my life. We part ways and I get lost make that embarrassment #3...I then glance at my phone and see I missed a call. I decide to call the number back thinking it might be another interview opportunity...it's Spencer...making sure I didn't get lost going to Coffee Bean...I sounded like a blundering idiot...embarrassment #4.

After a few shed tears...calling my mom, who was at work so couldn't talk...and my boyfriend who forgot about my interview...i finally found the freeway...i had been looking for the 60 and needed the 10. i am now back at school refusing to let my phone leave my side...and kicking myself for forgetting his name, calling him unknowingly and getting lost in redlands.

i should never have interviewed on a monday.