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I know I don't post often. But I always feel like I'm just griping about the same things over and over again. But, as someone on twitter told me, that's how journaling works. So, I'm writing.
Something I didn't post about already (I don't think anyways) is that I had a phone interview with a group in West Virginia. The position is for a DNA Analyst. Hello, DNA? Yes, please. I think I rocked that interview pretty well. It was only suppose to be a hour interview, but ended up being a hour and a half and no one stopped me when the time was up, we just kept going. I think I answered their questions honestly and well. Some of them I wasn't expecting and some, well, I felt like I was just slightly being allowed to rant about work. Those were from questions about how I handle other coworkers, taking up work without being asked, and putting myself into leadership roles. This lab is a mess. As a person who was trained to work in a clean lab, a lot of the others clean up habits drive me nuts and I'm often the nagging mom trying to get them to clean up after themselves for the sake of the lab. Not that it's done much good.
Then, there were things about the job I applied for. How I thought I could handle the samples they work with or being able to stand trial if needed. It's a forensics position, so I would get to handle not only blood and semen samples, but also things like abortion matter and I may have to go down to the medical examiner's lab to pick up samples and possibly see the victim and what ever happened to them. I would have to read the detail police reports also. So, several cases in which I may be uncomfortable with the material. But I said that I thought this job was more for bringing justice to the victim or the victims family/loved ones. Which once I realized that this was *that* type of job, yeah, that's the mind set I think one would need to have. Justice over gross factor.
Also, trials. I've never been to a trial, not even jury duty. But I think my skills at speaking on my data is really good. As long as I know what I worked on and what the set up is, I think I would be fine. A lot of the questions they asked I not only gave examples in my current work, but also usually ended up being about communication. I'm a big pusher for communication in just about all areas. If I can't talk to someone about something, there are going to be issues. I don't get my feelings hurt to easily, and often I'm more likely to be hurt that someone didn't want to talk to me about an issue before stepping over me and making it a bigger issue that it needs to be.
Anyways, I really want this job. It almost seems too good to be true. It will be back home, B and I would be moving into his mom's basement, which is HUGE. She never expects money from us except to help a little bit, so I can focus on paying off my student loans while I work. Once that's paid off we fully intend to help out MIL as much as we possibly can. B and I have both missed her a lot. I know B worries that his brother doesn't giver her the attention she needs now that she is alone. But she also has my cat, who I can't wait to see either. He's such a love bug. If B wasn't so allergic to cats he would have come with us. I still have a few friends in the area so that will be nice to get to see them again. Same with B's friends. They really miss us.
Right now I'm just praying and hoping that I get the job and that they don't offer it to someone else. But, I'm also trying to not get my hopes to far up.
ETA: Haha, I forgot to mention that one of the head guys that was part of the interview said that the position I applied for wouldn't be nearly as stressful as what I have now. Awesome.
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Date: 2014-10-21 04:08 pm (UTC)From:Sounds great!! I hope you get it! :D
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Date: 2014-10-24 05:04 am (UTC)From: