Torn between two jobs, feeling like a fool.....

Don't feel obliged to report back immediately, Deb. Not unless you feel you want to!
These episodes can be rather draining & of course, it'll be a while before the outcome is known.





But they'd be fools (fools!) to choose anyone else! ... that's my two bob's worth!

Adding positive thoughts to the mix.

Well.....?

Demanding lil woman arn't we?

Don't pay attention to Olga, Deb! I wanna know!

BACK! I say, BACK.... behind the barricades please folks.

He furriness will grace us with her presence in due course.

Don't listen to Thomas, Deb! Unless you really want to!

Dadpad--

You are either a Commanding Presence or an Officious Fool.

Noddy I also hapen to know several Blackwater security operatives who are looking for work at present.

Now...., Pretentious, I can handle, officious is pushing the envelope.

Dadpad--

Your Blackwater buddies....would they happen to be reflex gunmen?

Oh good grief!


Bastids asked me questions I didn't know the answer to!


Like to give a presentation on sleep problems in infants....and there all the time, in my bag, at my feet, was a book with many, many pages on just that. I hadn't read them. Sigh. I meant to and all, but I was just too busy.


And I made another whopper of a mistake in answering another question....


Oh well......like I said earlier, it's up to them. If they have a good internal candidate, they'll have blitzed me.

Wait and see.

You better watch it.

Jeez I hate it when that happens in an interview, Deb. And then you've gotta keep valiantly going on with the damned interview.

Sorry that happened to you.

Still keeping my fingers crossed for you, though. You never know!

You had to give a presentation? In an interview?

Eek.

Not GIVE it.....just give them the outline ("process and content"....huh?)


I HAVE had to prepare presentations in that beastly half hour they so often give you nowadays to read the questions and prepare, and then give them, though.



If you know the subject fully, it's easy!


I mean, it's easy enough to get up to speed with those knowledge things, so I am sad they picked an area I really don't know about......it will look bad, but isn't a problem when you are actually DOING a job...you just find out about stuff. I have the wherewithal at hand, too, it was something I bought recently (a whole book on regulation problems) because really traumatised kids often have no proper diurnal cycle, and have major sleep problems. I wanted to read up on how you help babies with that stuff, because I figure those are the techniques the older kids need to learn.




I had to give them "copies of recent written work" too.


I gave them a couple of reports, and the didactic section of the training we give other therapists in working with sexualised behaviour....WITH TYPOS!!! Grrrrr....my colleague had to retype the whole thing into her computer again last time we did it, because we keep changing it....and her typo catching sucks. She was typing it in the night before we did it, a couple of weeks ago, so we haven't had a chance to fix the typos.


Given that dumbo here didn't read the letter properly until last night, I was damned lucky I HAD stuff at home I could bring in!




I really don't mind too much ......I am happy if they have a better candidate who has more management and hands on infant mental health experience......


Lol! I just hate looking dumb.

I gave up hating that. Is that a sign of something?

I know what you mean. I bet you cobbled something together that left them with no clue that you hadn't just finished reading that book last night.

Typos sukc thuogh.

You have passed into a higher state of being.

At least you were allowed to keep your clothes on.

Thanks for the update. I'll keep my fingers crossed. And while I can see you making the occasional mistake, I don't think you could be looking dumb if you tried.