This Lady Knits

I’m leaving the ranks of full time knitter to go into the work force starting Wed or Thursday of next week. I got an email from my recruiter Wed night when I got home from SnB with a position that is eerily similar to my last position, before I left CA. I replied back to him, Thursday morning that it looked good, what’s the next step. I didn’t hear back from him immediately, instead I got a call back from him a few hours later wanting to know my availability for an interview. Well we all know I’m a full time knitter so availability for an interview was wide open. 30 min later he called and asked me if 11 on Friday would work. So I said sure.

Fast forward to today, the interview got bumped to noon, and the hiring manager had a last minute fire to put out, so instead of the customary 1 hour interview, it was shortened to 30 minutes, but we took 40. Because of the tight time line I was more than a little nervous about the interview.

Him: What does <<insert some statistical terminology here>> mean?

ME : I don’t know what the terms mean, but I can find out, there’s an answer for everything and I can find it. I’m a quick learner

Then came the odd questions:

Him: <putting 3 cans of soda on the table> What are the differences and similarities between these?

Me: Well they’re 3 different soda’s, one’s diet, 2 are made by this vendor, one by that. We could do an analysis on the popularity of each soda based on daily consumption… I basically babbled from that point forward.

Him: Name some US American Coinage.

Me: penny, nickel, dime, half dollar, silver dollar, Susan B. Anthoy…

Him: Given that the above have the accepted value, penny is 1 cent, nickel is 5 cents and so on and so on, if you had 2 coins that add up to 35 cents and one of them is not a quarter, what are the 2 coins?

Me: <stares off into space>

Him: write it down, then write the equation

Me: <scribbles furiously, then stares at the paper> That’s a good puzzle.

Him: <writing on the white board x+y=.35 (which btw is on my piece of paper) then is scribbles x or y ≠ quarter>

Me: <lights go on, someone is home> a quarter and a dime

Him: We’ve gone just a bit over I’ll walk you out

Me: Thank you for your time.

 

In the elevator

 

Him: Do you have a current contract that you need to run out?

Me: No, I’m available to start any time.

Him: Thank you for coming in, I have one more interview on Monday and I’ll let <insert recruiters name here> know.

Me: Thank you again, have a good weekend.

Him: Thank you for coming in, have a good weekend.

 

 

 

 

Okay, now I’ll admit I haven’t had many interviews in the last 7 years, Ok so I’ve had 6 interviews in the last 7 years, but 4 of those were for positions I already knew I had, one ofr a position I knew I wouldn’t get, and the one a few weeks ago, but I walked out of this one not knowing which way was up.

I went across the street to meet with my recruiter, and told him that I didn’t know how I felt about the interview. He assured me that this was par for the course for this hiring manager, but once you were working for him, he is a cool guy, sometime intense, but in my line of work, you get a lot of intense, it’s kind of stressful. I left my recruiters office knowing that the other guy that was going to be interviewed was offered another position, but he hadn’t accepted it yet.

Fast forward again:

About an hour and a half ago I got a call, it’s my recruiter:

 

 

 

Him: Are you sitting down?

Me: Yes (thinking oh he’s decided I’m not a good fit without even seeing the other guy)

Him: The other candidate has decided to accept the other position, the HM said to go with you and get you in there quick.

Me: You’re joking!

Him: <laughs> Is that a you accept?

Me: Yes

 

 

 

The rest of the call is just minor details, orientation, start date salary etc etc etc.

So, now I have an orientation either Monday or Wed of next week, more than likely Wed, since we haven’t set up a Monday time, and a start date of Wed or Thurs. Probably Thursday.

Oh the nice thing, there is a yarn shop on the other side of the freeway from the office.

Further news on the Knit Off. The gal that thought she won is contesting. I suspect that an email wasn’t sent to the hostess personal email address upon completion, but was instead sent to the group and a picture posted. Since the hostess is using headers….well maybe I didn’t win, but I followed all the rules. We’ll see what happens. Either way it’s all good. Well, except that I won’t be a full time knitter anymore.