Surprise Job Interview, Name-Dropping and My Favorite--Immigration
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Friday, October 19, 2007 5:05 AM
Today was a very interesting day! While at work, I was processing a transaction for another employee who was bringing his department's earnings for United Way and getting a check to send off to them. We get to talking about what his position is, and I somehow come to mention that I applied for an auditing position, a program he had worked in temporarily. He asks me who's in charge of hiring, and it turns out he knows the guy. He said that when he got back to the office, he'd shoot him an email to put in a good word for me. What a blessing that is!
After frantically scurrying to the bus stop after work, I noticed I had a new voice message from a phone number within my company. The HR rep for the other position I applied for within my company had called and wanted to chat a little, so I immediately called her back. It wound up being a sort of preliminary interview. She really grilled me about my current status in my job, crikeys. I'm not quite at where I should be for my goals, but I openly discussed this with her and didn't try to make excuses, even though we really do have a ton of excuses at the particular location I work at. We are notorious for never being able to meet our goals. Being at the heart of downtown, we get so many business people who are off to lunch or a meeting or need to get back to the office. Being the main resource for a multitude of foreign transactions, the last thing those people want to talk about is upgrades or other special offers.
Anyway, I think the interview went well, though. Like I said, I didn't try to make excuses and talked with her about my plans to keep improving and start reaching more of my goals like I have done in the past. While it's obviously no fun to talk about one's shortcomings, I didn't end the call thinking, "Oh gosh, now she thinks I'm a total slacker and that I'll bring my new team down if hired." We'll see! She'll be talking with the actual manager there who will then decide if he wants to have me come in for a face-to-face interview or not. If I don't get the position, God did not intend for me to have it. I'll figure something out.
While I am not "actively" stressed about all of this job stuff, I know that it is affecting me a bit. When I was getting dinner ready, I mentioned to my husband again about how I really just need encouragement and little reminders of how it's only temporary, that we have bigger and better things coming our way soon. ^^;;
So yeah! There's at least a little something going on with each of the three positions I applied for now. ^^;;
On the immigration front...
I received another letter from our attorney yesterday, but it wasn't an exciting one. Immigration had sent a letter to our attorney requesting "inital evidence, " which means they needed some sort of documentation that shows I am either a US citizen, permanent resident, et cetera. Thus, our attorney sent us a copy of what he sent back to immigration. I was upset because the letter immigration sent made it sound like our case was now going to be delayed a bit. Moreover, our attorney has copies of my passport and birth certificate, so why didn't he send them originally?
I talked with him today, though, and everything is fine. He says he did send the documents, and I do believe him. I know what was in our file, and I know he didn't randomly take bits out. He said immigration does this every once-in-awhile but that it doesn't delay it at all. The part I read about not receiving the work permit within 90 days was saying that if you don't send in the documents, you are not eligible. So everything is still going smoothly! He also said our interview should come a couple of weeks after his biometrics appointment, so I can't wait!
Silly immigration.
In other news, I contacted a couple of people I haven't really spoken with in a long time yesterday and today. One person I had just simply lost touch with, so I emailed her and found her on facebook. She was so excited to hear from me, so that was kind of nice. ^^;; The other person is someone who I have had a very, VERY strained relationship with for roughly four years. I usually refer to her as an "ex-friend," though I've never been able to completely just forget about her. I read up on her journal every now and again, which usually leaves me feeling a little sad at a lot of the poor decisions she's made in her life and how empty I know it's going to leave her in the end.
I checked her journal today and felt compelled to give a response. I responded to something in her entry while also mentioning that I had been hanging on to something I had bought for her well over a year ago and just have not yet mailed. I guess I just wanted her to know that I still think about her and care about her. I want her to lead a more fulfilling life rather than tripping on such unstable ground, finding temporary happiness here and there. I want her to be happy.
Anyway, that's enough of a ramble from me for tonight. ^^;;