*brrrrring*
Apr. 3rd, 2002 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nollyAlmost every day, the first call of the day is a wrong number, sometime between 9 and 10 AM. Not the same wrong number or anything. Sometimes there isn't even anyone on the other end.
Today, however, the first call was from a consulting company in Glendale. I'm interviewing there Friday afternoon. Then, a couple of hours later, just when I was fixing lunch and putting on enough clothes to retrieve the mail, a local headhunter calls me back on a position she'd first called me about a week or two ago. So I scarfed lunch, found something reasonably dressy to wear, and got down there. Filled out their paperwork, then over to the client's office to interview there. The client is a subcontractor on a SPAWAR Systems Center contract, so tomorrow I'll probably be meeting with the prime contractor and/or the customer.
The woman I talked to today seemed very nice. She's the owner of the company. The problem is SPAWAR isn't paying jack for this position. We're talking less than I made 4 years ago, fresh out of school. Still, it's more than unemployment. Not that I have the job yet, but I'm getting the impression there's not a whole lot of competition. And there's no law that says I can't turn around and quit if something better comes along. I'd feel a bit bad, cause it'd probably reflect badly on the company the brought me in, but probably not too much since everyone knows this is extremely low pay.
In other news, they've sent someone to properly repaint my door -- the guys who did it the first time didn't actually remove all the old paint, so it immediately started peeling again.
Today, however, the first call was from a consulting company in Glendale. I'm interviewing there Friday afternoon. Then, a couple of hours later, just when I was fixing lunch and putting on enough clothes to retrieve the mail, a local headhunter calls me back on a position she'd first called me about a week or two ago. So I scarfed lunch, found something reasonably dressy to wear, and got down there. Filled out their paperwork, then over to the client's office to interview there. The client is a subcontractor on a SPAWAR Systems Center contract, so tomorrow I'll probably be meeting with the prime contractor and/or the customer.
The woman I talked to today seemed very nice. She's the owner of the company. The problem is SPAWAR isn't paying jack for this position. We're talking less than I made 4 years ago, fresh out of school. Still, it's more than unemployment. Not that I have the job yet, but I'm getting the impression there's not a whole lot of competition. And there's no law that says I can't turn around and quit if something better comes along. I'd feel a bit bad, cause it'd probably reflect badly on the company the brought me in, but probably not too much since everyone knows this is extremely low pay.
In other news, they've sent someone to properly repaint my door -- the guys who did it the first time didn't actually remove all the old paint, so it immediately started peeling again.
