Family, do not ask about my job interview today. Because let me tell you, it was not a job interview so much as a disabuse of notions previously held.
When the interviewer (would-be) asked me why I applied for the job, I told him that the ad I saw for the job mentioned library work. He laughed. He laughed. And I had to tell him I was serious. The job I apparently applied for and agreed to be interviewed for was a corporate accounts management job. I'd be opening and managing/maintaining accounts. I felt I deserved to know why I was told a different thing by personnel, at which point he asked me what I had been told.
When he heard me say "research" he said that there was sort of a research component, but only as it pertained to the accounts I'd be working on. I think it was at this point that I gently (even though I was seething/melting with genuine sadness) told him that I simply wasn't interested, and that I thought I'd be doing something that at least somewhat pertained to library work, and that many, many corporations had libraries, and I wasn't averse to working in a corporate library. (I don't think he believed me, because he asked me for some examples.) He then said it was not remotely a corporate library job, said we shouldn't waste each other's time anymore, and sent me on my way.
I'm happy about this, because I would have been miserable at the job. MISERABLE. I could feel my soul sucking right out of me the minute I walked in--all I could see in front of me was a sea of cubicles. I swear, my life in a cubicle flashed before my eyes, and I knew that if the job I was offered was going to take place in a cubicle I'd have to turn it down. I would have been miserable there. I would have hated going to work. I would have felt unhappy every minute I spent in the place. So I'm happy, but pissed. How the hell could an accounts job have masqueraded as a research job? They tell prospective employees whatever they have to to get them in the door? What a waste of time for him, and for me.
I'm going to start applying for part-time jobs four hours ago.
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