doh!

I had my first job interview of 2009 job hunting this morning.

Potential Job #1 was something that I initially just emailed my resume to because the unemployment office requires me to apply to three places a week to receive benefits. I had thought it was a position that I wouldn't terribly mind doing, but didn't really want to take because it wasn't something I really wanted to do. I am determined that my next job with be permanent, something that I can have a career in, and something I enjoy (pretty much anywhere I can write). Of course, out of the jobs that I applied to in the past couple of week, the one I wasn't crazy about was the company who called me to interview.

I was hesitant about it last night because I do not want to just take the first job offered to me, that is how I got into the mess with The Other Place and I was miserable. However, if they offered me a job and I didn't accept, I could get my unemployment benefits cut. Plus this appeared to be a customer service desk and phone job, which isn't the ideal place I wanted to start. So since I was working on a big freelance project anyway, I decided that I would do my best but not do my usual interview prep of researching the company and doing practice interview questions in writing.

Not a good idea. Potential Job #1 was not advertised in the way it was discussed in the interview. They selected me because of my background in writing and would probably let me do a good deal of it since they're in the process of expanding. I didn't know that the section of the company hiring is actually a newly independent division of the big company I knew about initally. It actually sounds pretty interesting, although very intense, and the perks are great. Eh. I've already come to terms that I may not be offered the position, but the interviewer seemed to like me well enough, which is about the best I could have done without proper preparation.

Lesson learned.

And the job hunt continues.