It may not be the DreamJob but I have phone interview with the COO of a direct mail company tomorrow. The beauty about this job would be that the office is only twelve blocks away, a 20-minute walk according to google maps. Or, a quick trip on the D6.

The DreamJob people had better hurry up and set up that before-the-end-of-April callback interview before I get snatched up by another company!

All this week when the email went bong! I immediately and nervously checked it (not to mention all the constant “check email now” refreshes) to see if I had received THE email from the DreamJob. With a promise of “we’ll get back to everybody this week”, time was running out on a Friday afternoon. Maybe then I thought they said “we’ll get back to everybody in the new few weeks” and it would be another couple of weeks of agony. But today it came:

“I have forwarded your information on to the hiring manager of Georgetown. We did indeed decide to invite you back for an interview but since your preference was for Georgetown, they will be talking to you from here on. They have your info and will be arranging interviews through the end of April.

Good luck!

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Woohoo w00t booyah and all that good stuff! I’m hoping I didn’t shoot myself in the foot by requesting the Gtown store instead of one of the existing ones, but that one’s right on the D6 line which goes right in front of my apt and I could travel to work above ground and it would be nice to reprahzent DC instead of traveling to the H8ST8 or Murland.

Now I have to wait for the interview setup but at least I can relax a little knowing that I’ve secured the callback. April is the best month evra!

Last night’s DreamJob recruiting seminar was an enthusiastic meet-n-greet, basically. They explained a little more about the positions available, showed some brag reels, did some Q&A and basically explained why their stores are so successful. It was very warm and fuzzy.

The part I do feel optimistic about is that there seemed to be very few people who could fit into the Creative position that I’m particularly looking for. This should play into my favor even without my skill set and charm <snark>. The next step is for individual callbacks this week, so I’m eagerly waiting for that email.

On a side note, in addition to the freelance job I’m already working on with G they’ve also pointed me towards a small twice-a-year gig with an existing client of theirs, working on a newsletter. I’ll be working directly with the client instead of funneling thru them so it’s a nurturing relationship of a client of my own which is pretty nice. As I said, it’s not a huge job but it’ll be a few days work at least twice a year so I’m grateful for that. I told you April was going to be a great month!

Today is the day of my DreamJob interview. Yes, on a Sunday after the retail store closes in Clarendon. I’m told to dress “business casual” but all I have are jeans and dress pants. So I’m off downtown to find some khakis. Nothing says business casual like khakis, right?

I’m thinking “what would Jim Halpert wear?” I mean, he’s pretty business casual in a “always put together” kind of way. But minus the tie, I don’t think I’ll be sportin’ the tie today.

So I’m downtown with a $100 bill budget. Luckily, there’s a huge sale going on at Macy’s today, and a lot of it is dresswear. The khaki’s are on sale ($32.99) and Michael Kor shirts are on sale 1/2 price: $24.99 each. I’m trying to decide between dress shirts named Frosted Lilac and English Blue but since they’re on sale I decide to get them both and make the decision of which to wear at home.

Ok, the English Blue is winning out. Would Jim Halpert even wear lilac? Black accents of shoes, belt and 611 Records shoulder bag. Contents of my bag: three black pens (two Uni•Ball Vision fine point, on Sharpie ultra fine point), water bottle, resume in manilla folder, sunglasses case, hand lotion, a paper towel, tin of wintergreen Altoids and a blank book given to me as a gift-with-purchase from Apple several years ago. Now gimme that job!

Do you know the blog Post Secret? Probably, but if you don’t it’s an interesting site that puts up postcards that have been mailed in by viewers, allegedly revealing some secret they would never reveal. It’s easy to reveal it if you’re sending it in anonymously and that’s the beauty of the site. Of course Post Secret has a Facebook fan page that you can join that does what I’m not exactly sure, but you can join it if you want. I haven’t joined it so there’s no way for the site bots to know who my friends are, so imagine the chances when, at the bottom of their page, is a pulling from all their 700,000 FB fans and I know two of them!

Yeah, yeah, so Apple’s iPad is out today. Now if I had a job I would be first in line to get one. But that’s not the case. Maybe someday soon I will have one.

Instead, this is what I did today:

• worked my part-time for today’s three hour shift—
• completed two online tests for the job that is 12 blocks away from my house, who contacted me on Tuesday after sending in my resume the previous week. There were two tests, one that had some basic analytical and grammatical questions that seemed kind of odd and very S.A.T.-ish; the other test was a “personality test” (as was told to me on the phone Tuesday) and was even weirder, a listing of traits that first I had to pick out what I thought people perceived of me and then the same traits where I picked what I felt represented me. Very bizarre and makes me think about what kind of organization it is—
• installing a Mac OS X update and then updates to Adobe’s Creative Suite. This is getting me prepped for a freelance gig through former employer G that will start on Monday. I’ll be working from home so they’re providing me with disks to upgrade my four-year-old iMac to their system. It will be easier to transfer files that way and I’m very thankful they gave those to me. I was running old versions on their software from when I worked there but now I’m at least up to version 3.

Another caveat about the free system upgrade to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.8) is that it will get me pretty much up to speed for my “career seminar” with a certain employer which is the DreamJob. My meeting with them is next Sunday and I couldn’t be more psyched. Also in preparation for this meeting I’ve downloaded a 30-day trial of iWork and Monday I will use a gift card to purchase the most recent copy of iLife. I’ll need to bone up on these software packages and so if you can take a hint or click on one of the links then you’ll know who the interview is with and who the DreamJob employer is.