interview

The Interview:

It started ok. I did my homework. Reviewed the most popular interview questions. Made some questions to ask them. But then the technical guy got there. OOOH boy. I tried my best but he would say "yes thats right" even when I'm pretty sure I was wrong. So that got me killed. Then there was questions on system administration, which killed me. oy. After that the CEO came in, or co-partner, and he gave me a history and asked me if I had any questions. I asked a few but the interview went on for like 1:20 and I could see the first guy was getting antsy so it wrapped up around then. On the way out the first guy told me I did OK interviewing and that I shouldn't be worried about my future if I continue to conduct myself like that. THEN, as in after, he said you'll probably be hearing from me again in the future. yeah, when you say you're sorry you can't help me out. Also, the job pays fairly poorly in the first year, but you make up for it in experience, so its kinda like an internship I suppose. I'm ok with the low pay for education it just means I'll have to wait another year for all that cool shit.
On another note, the Men's Warehouse sucks dick, at least the one on route 1 in the mercer shopping mall. I went there and got a white shirt and a blue tie. The shirt was picked out by the guy working there and the tie was picked from a table of regular length ties. I get it home, try on the shirt. Neck, Check. Arm lenght, check. Room for my other guests, check. WTF, I could fit another person in the shirt with me. Next, the tie. Tie it up and ooops way too long. Try again, still too long. So I take it back and the lies start rolling. First I get "maybe you tie the tie wrong" then, "Its a standard length", THEN "oh sorry its an extra long". And about that shirt, "OH yeah, thats how they are, you just have to tuck it in the back, see...", he says showing me the back of his shirt. Uh, ok. Then why do I have shirts that fit properly at home if thats how they are? Dick. So I pick another tie from the table, which after the first one all suck, and goto JC Penneys to get a shirt that fits. The next day I put the tie on and go into the bathroom and the fucking thing looks PURPLE. Its a wonderful color shifting tie. Blue in some light, PURPLE in the rest. DAMN YOU MEN'S WAREHOUSE!!

INTERVIEW!

Finally, my FIRST REAL interview! I got an email from Princeton Internet Group on Friday(i think) but didn't see it until today. I hope that doesn't effect me. ROCK! Time to brush up on everything. eek, its like craming for an exam.

Potential?

Today was a long day. Not really but I did more than a few job submittions. The best application procedure BY FAR was Ternary Software. They actually listed as requirements: "programming for fun"
"love of programing,.. desire to create something great"
"Understanding of the need to brainstorm"
Beond that the application asks you to tell them about programs you've written on your own. This is what I've been waiting for! Someone who realizes there's more to this than just GPA's and where you fucking interned! I hope to hear from them, I actually have my hopes up for this one.
The other resume dumps I did include-
KPMG LLP, Entry Level IT associate- some web programming stuff.
NK architects, Junior Web Appl. Devel.-some more web programming.
First Consulting group, Junior Level Developer-some software engineering stuff.
HP-general submition, they didn't have anything around here but it would be cool to work there, they make pocketPC's, hp-unix, and I'm sure they have some programs written for the computers they sell. Oh and iPods.

navy

Fresh on the heels of the knowledge that Nick got a job, I began the search again. I applied to a couple of jobs through the US Navy. I also applied to BAE systems where Nick got his SWEET ass job. Sweet benifits, lets just saying he's getting way more than the average.

More e-resumes down the hole

CONFIDENTIAL - Programmer/Business Analyst
Some job doing VBA and .NET work
Symbolic systems- .Net Develper
Just applied, no cover letter, no hope.
Viecore - Jr. Software Developer
Another job that seems nicely matched to my resume.
Hyperion - Software Engineer
i forget.

Also, I found out today that the Church web site was going to be completely in my hands. Hosting and all.

job rejection

well today I got my first official written rejection from Raytheon. It's good because someone actually (maybe) looked at it and let me know what was going on. Very Professional, Raytheon **** stars.
Yesterday, I applied to Princeton Internet Group's position for a Web application programmer. This looked nice because it almost fit my resume perfectly, they wanted someone with Java skills with useage of ASP and Web application skills.

information session

I went to a morgan stanley information session today. It was pretty lame, just boring junk about the "firm" and its "endless" possiblities. They gave away 2 20gig iPods and a iPac pocket pc. I didnt win any of them.
BUT they did have about 40 128mb thumb drives, of which I am now the proud owner. suckers.