emotional roller coaster with the job offers this week
I won't try to say it all. But it's been an emotional roller coaster the last few days, regarding my job offers.
I'll also add the last,caveat that I may have just deleted a voicemail message from the hardware store manager that I hadn't actually heard yet. Woops. I don't think I can undo that. So if he was offering me a job again, or apologizing, or informing me the circus is in town, maybe I'll never know.
So yeah... I was offered two jobs on the same day. As described in a previous post here. I thought about it decided to try doing both jobs, since they both had about equivalent pros and cons from my limited perspective. I then figured out, based on my availability, I really only could handle one of the jobs. So I chose he hardware store - and called them up to start planning.
After setting date and times for me to start the training, we discussed my future schedule after the training. It turned out my availability was not so great. The manager said he'd check in with my ideas for availability with the schedule-master-guy and call me back soon. I assumed there was some room for negotiations here. Apparently not. When he called me back, he said something very much like, "Sorry, this isn't going to work with your availability. We're not going to hire you. Good luck on your job search." It was very quick, leaving no room for explanation on my part. I suppose I could have immediately responded with some kind of offer - but I was too shocked to go there. I really had not expected that response from the manager. So, that was that.
Fortunately I had not yet called the other place I'd been hired to say I was going to quit after all (before even starting).
I also realized I'd possibly never initially told the hardware store my availability, while with almost every other (round 20+) job I'd recently applied to, there'd be an application in which i described my availability very clearly - so that question was out of the way. But I think I'd assumed the hardware store application had involved that, too, and so my availability would be fine. As it turned out that was not the case. We did not have that understanding.
So after all that pondering and decision-making and prioritizing, I was suddenly stuck with having the job I had decided was less ideal than the one I just lost.
At least I still had it.
And there's no reason I can't still apply for other jobs.
And maybe it won't be so bad anyway. I've never actually done this specific kind of work.
I'll also add the last,caveat that I may have just deleted a voicemail message from the hardware store manager that I hadn't actually heard yet. Woops. I don't think I can undo that. So if he was offering me a job again, or apologizing, or informing me the circus is in town, maybe I'll never know.
So yeah... I was offered two jobs on the same day. As described in a previous post here. I thought about it decided to try doing both jobs, since they both had about equivalent pros and cons from my limited perspective. I then figured out, based on my availability, I really only could handle one of the jobs. So I chose he hardware store - and called them up to start planning.
After setting date and times for me to start the training, we discussed my future schedule after the training. It turned out my availability was not so great. The manager said he'd check in with my ideas for availability with the schedule-master-guy and call me back soon. I assumed there was some room for negotiations here. Apparently not. When he called me back, he said something very much like, "Sorry, this isn't going to work with your availability. We're not going to hire you. Good luck on your job search." It was very quick, leaving no room for explanation on my part. I suppose I could have immediately responded with some kind of offer - but I was too shocked to go there. I really had not expected that response from the manager. So, that was that.
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| The shock and rigmarole of the experience led me to bawling hard for a good ten minutes or more immediately after hanging up. I hadn't cried in quite a while. This was a big release and intense. |
Fortunately I had not yet called the other place I'd been hired to say I was going to quit after all (before even starting).
I also realized I'd possibly never initially told the hardware store my availability, while with almost every other (round 20+) job I'd recently applied to, there'd be an application in which i described my availability very clearly - so that question was out of the way. But I think I'd assumed the hardware store application had involved that, too, and so my availability would be fine. As it turned out that was not the case. We did not have that understanding.
So after all that pondering and decision-making and prioritizing, I was suddenly stuck with having the job I had decided was less ideal than the one I just lost.
At least I still had it.
And there's no reason I can't still apply for other jobs.
And maybe it won't be so bad anyway. I've never actually done this specific kind of work.
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| it will probably look something like this |
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