what am I feeling? is this pain? Is this panic?

[offbalance]

Consider this the official announcement.

Okay, so I've been temping at Harper Collins for the last couple of weeks. And while here, I poked around on their HR boards, looking for a means to go from temp to perm. (Which is akin from going from the Earth to the Moon, but I had to try). So I found a job opening in the contracts department and applied for it. I had two interviews for it (both of which went very well.) NOW, I just got a call, and the HR person told me that they would like me to temp in the position for an 'undetermined' amount of time, just to try it out. And that I'm 'definitely a finalist' for the position. And I start Monday. WTF?

I'm still worried about jinxing myself. I don't know if I should be talking about this yet. But I figured if I had to choose between this and exploding, this would win. So I don't know what's what. Don't congratulate me yet. There's no celebrating to be done. But yeah, that's what I've been spazzing about of late.

(and if I don't get the idea of wanting french fries out of my head there will be problems. Big ones.)

Comments

[octette]

i would be very very suspicious of this.

[dotsomething.livejournal.com]

You should do it, it's a paycheck, plus it's experience even if you don't get hired.

But I have to say--I hate how they're doing it. It's this attitude--jump through our hoops of fire to see if you're good enough to step inside the building. Trial basis? WTF indeed. As if you aren't capable of doing the work.

This a rant from someone lucky enough to work in publishing, but during my temping days and trying to get INTO publishing there was a lot of that sort of high falutin' attitude. Of course, as job seeker you have to be humble and abase yourself--just don't forget YOU have the skills, you're talented and hard working and they would be LUCKY to have you an as employee. Just as you would be lucky to get the job.

(Gee, I'm tired from work, can you tell?)