Job Interviews

I hate job interviews. Obviously it's a necessary thing if, like me, you need a job ... but man, I hate them. There are several reasons I dislike them, which I will no doubt mention here.

Today there was a job fair in town for Winners and Homesense. So naturally, since I'm need of work and all, we went. I filled out an application and had an interview on the spot.

The guy interviewing was of some other nationality, or whatever, and he had quite a thick accent. Needless to say, I had issues understanding a lot of the things he said. I did my best with that, though.

I hate when they ask you all those questions regarding your job experience. Because, well, I don't have that much job experience, really. My last job only lasted a whopping two months, and the job before that was from 2006 to 2007 -- ages ago. So all those questions are really hard for me to answer! Especially when something like this happens:

Interviewer: "Have you ever been frustrated at work before?"
Me: Um ... "Not really. I enjoy working with different people, so I don't get easily frustrated."
Pause ...
Interviewer: "Describe a time you were frustrated at work at what you did."
Now I'm thinking HELLO DID YOU NOT JUST HEAR MY LAST RESPONSE?!
But I make up some B.S. story about being frustrated.

And like ... I had mentioned to him that I am currently a stay at home mom, so my schedule is pretty open, as long as I can get a babysitter (which isn't too hard of a task). Then he asks me a question about how I balance my school life/work life/social life! I'm thinking "... I'm a stay at home mom ... I do mom things ... there's no balance involved." SERIOUSLY. The guy wasn't listening to a word I was saying.

I suck at interviews as it is ... I don't need some irritating guy asking questions that aren't even relevant to what I've already said. It was definitely one of my worst interviews. Of course, it doesn't help that I have a yucky cold right now!

But, all of that doesn't matter. I have a second interview for tomorrow. So we'll see how that goes.