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Jobhunt 2004, Part 2
R. Alex Whitlock
The Omni-Touch job is out. They required sales experience.
The good news is that Norwest called me back again yesterday. This time it was the VP and another on-the-spot interview that I didn't do remarkably well on. On the first phone interview they asked if I worked better alone or in a group. Not knowing which the job I was, I said that all things being equal, I'd prefer to work alone. Five minutes later I was told that I'd be working with six other people. So yesterday when I was asked if I could handle the workload (overseeing about 250 computers), I said that I'd definitely be able to with some help. Then I found out that the six other people were IT personnel, not network administration and that I'd be working netadmin alone. That made me sound not-very-confident about being able to oversee such a large number of machines. Can't win for losing, can I? Having only worked with 20 or so at my last job (it was a small part of my job), I have no clue what overseeing 250 computers would be like. If I recall, though, that's about what Nova had when I worked there and there was one guy mostly responsible for that, so I think I can handle it. Regardless, over the course of the interview I went from feeling overqualified for the spot to underqualified. The good news about the six other people in IT is that I'd be able to focus solely on fixing stuff, so none of the task-hopping that UFC required.
On the Synchronus front, I moved the interview from Tuesday to Wednesday for personal reasons, but it's still on. I'm going to stop by a convenience store and if I can get $7.50 an hour or more there, I think I'll take a job there instead of with Synchronus. I really, really would rather not work for that company.
 
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