job schmob

Today, I heard I didn't even get an interview for a job I applied for.   I really thought I was a total right fit for it.   I had spent 3 whole days answering the pretty tricky application form so I am a bit bummed out.

But, hey. Who knows what, or who, they had in mind.    What I have to remember is that I put myself into the arena.  I tried.  And therefore, at least according to Theodore Roosevelt, I did not fail.

I do however, have a very strong learning from this experience.   It is this:  That was the last time I spend 3 days of my life fretting and fussing over a job application form.  I will, devise a way to get through the rest of my life without having to fill in a job application form.  In fact, hencforth, I  VOW that I will never again fill in a job application form.

I have done pretty well so far.  I will admit.  I have had many roles in my life and I have only once filled in a "damn job application form" before in my life..... it, too, took 3 days of wording things as best I could -  that time, however, I did at least get the job.

But having got it (yay!) that job was not as worth having as I thought it was going to be (boo).  It sounded much better than it actually was and not only that it was paid really badly. I left pretty soon to go do something much more interesting.

So, in order to make myself feel better today, I am going to assume -  for want of no other knowledge on the subject  - that the same would have been true for this job.

So, Henceforth, as well as "NEVER FILLING IN ANOTHER JOB APPLICATION FORM EVER AGAIN" This job IS (in my mind at least)  a job that sounded better than it was.  It would have been mostly data entry and way more hours than it implied on the tin.  It would have been boring, repetitive and administrative. It was a job for which the salary was competitive only for a desperate recent arts graduate on their first run at the career ladder.  In short  - it is a damn fine thing NOT to have gotten it.

(.....Though rejection always smarts a little.......  )

Tonight I shall be talking with a lovely person about a collaboration that is certainly extremely interesting and will most absolutely, definitely not involve any form of job application forms.

ONWARDS and UPWARDS