Post Grad Blues......

Aw man I need a bowl of mac n cheese a violin and a bottle of spirits. This week is royally sucking! Today is Tuesday and Ive been on my third interview since yesterday. Yesterday I was over qualified and today I was under qualified and very unprepared. (Que the violin) So I leave the house this morning about an hour ahead of my interview in order to give myself ample time to reach my destination. This involved me waking up at 5:30 in the am. Needless to say I could have been in a nicer mood. But no worries, I'm still the nicest person I know, even at 7am with no sleep and stuck in traffic ( I can... embellish, it's myyyy blog). I had all my necessary documents and items in tow.
Resume, check!
IDs, Check!
Cute yet subtle colored chapstick, check!
Vast knowledge of "why you should hire me " scenarios, check!
Extensive knowledge of inner workings of the Microsoft Access program.......eh not so much. The guy who interviewed me, (a HAWT Latin mature fellow) sprung some skills test on me. I must have looked like a frackin fool cause i swear he giggled. It went a little like this:
Interviewer: "Ok, If you could please follow me to the back so we could administer the skills test"
At first I snicker cause I was being immature and thinking about filth Ha Ha Ha I'll show you my skills test...., hey he was fine! Then it hits me Oh shit!
ME: " A skills test!" Eyes get a bit larger"of course!"
Interviewer: (Grin)Yeah were just testing your knowledge of Microsoft Office"
Me: "Oh Ok. You mean word excel, access, power point and all that good stuff?"
Interviewer: "Yes ma'am"
ME: "OK yeah I have a basic knowledge of all of that"
Interviewer: " (Giggle) Well OK but the position requires a intermediate knowledge of Excel and Access"
Shit Shit Shit Im screwed. Yeah I have Word and Excel down, but Access......I'm sooo screwed. Now, for some reason, the interviewer is not all attractive to me. Eww hes old and Mexican.....ugh totally not my type.
So I take the test probably passed everything except Access and hightailed it to Starbucks and drown my sorrows in sweet sweet caffeine. Hmm in hindsight , he's still crazy sexy. He was probably giggling cause I kept glancing... .......lol anyways moving along. Don't get me wrong, I know the basics. The plan was to rely on the basics. Then upon getting the job I was going to get my study on and be an Access whiz by the time I reported for my first day of work. Alas I should have come up with a plan B. Plan B would entailed having and intermediate knowledge of all office programs prior to the interview. After all that's what my resume implies.....ha. Shoot! That should have been my plan A! Oh well another life lesson for me utilize. Since Ive only been out of school for about a month and we are in a recession, I'll save the dramatics for around June. It just sucks cause usually these things are out of your hands but this situation was totally "my bad". I was looking sooooo good today! Ugh! I want to go back to high school or my freshman and sophomore years of college. Life was so carefree back then. The only thing that frustrated me back then was maintaining a 3.5 and defending Nsync against those rabid Backstreet Boy fans. Great! the depression is sinking in. I need a light at the end of the tunnel. But at this rate ill be homeless in the tunnel begging for change. I'm totally being a baby but oh well. I have two more interviews lined up for the this week. Maybe those will go a bit better and if not, Ill chalk it all up to experience. Whew, there I did it, I pulled myself up by my stiletto straps. On to a lighter note!!!!!!! Ive been invited to the unveiling of the Hello Kitty collection at MAC today!!!! I'm so geeked about it! My cousin and I have anticipating it for weeks, and now its here to remedy my sucky day. Woo Hoot!!