part three - Leap of Faith or "Couldn't you have asked me that BEFORE I left?"
It's too late for Lou to make his 2pm interview (they were sympathetic and let him reschedule for the following Monday), so we head to the place where I wanted to apply. When I walk into the HR office, people are everywhere putting in applications for jobs. I fill out my application and return to the desk (this after my cell phone has rang twice...you'd think people had never heard the Road Runner Theme belted from a cell phone before.), and the HR guy asks if I have time to take a couple of tests. I say "sure", take the test forms and head to the "testing area".

So, I'm looking at the test, and the first question makes my eyes glaze over:

"Nancy drove 30 miles in 28 minutes. How fast was she traveling?"

MATH? I hate Math! Fortunately, the rest of the questions were more applicable to what I would be doing..questions like:

1. What does DOS stand for?

2. IE is a
a. browser
b. word processing program
c. operating system
d. none of the above

3. WIN is a
a. spreadsheet program
b. browser
c. operating system
d. none of the above

Fifty questions just like that. I breezed through the test, so quickly that I suprised the HR guy. He looked at my test paper twice to make sure I answered everything, then told me, "they'd look over my application, resume and test results, and if I was what they were looking for, they would give me a call." Not what I wanted to hear, but better than laughing me out of the place.

So, I return to the car, and Lou and I head over to the complex I had found online. Took us a while to find it, cuz the directions were backwards. (Someone at mapquest really needs their heads examined...cuz their directions have been really screwed up).

Anyway, we get there, and it's better than all the other complexes combined. We wanted a townhome...but there weren't any available at the time, so we looked at a garden apartment. It was nice, but there was a glitch: there was only one and someone else was interested in it. Whoever put down their deposit first got it.

Lou and I looked at each other and shrugged. Did we really want to put down a deposit and application fee on an apartment when neither of us had jobs yet? It was a difinite leap of faith...if we didn't get jobs quickly, we were doomed, but if we didn't put down the deposit, there was a good chance we couldn't get into the complex. So we took a deep breath and leapt....

While we were filling out the forms, the Manager told us that she could not take cash for payment, so we would have to go to Kroger's and get a money order. So, we finished filling out the application then headed to Kroger's, about 2 miles from the complex. On our way back, my cell phone rang: the HR guy wanted to set up an interview. So, I set it up for Monday afternoon.

On our way home, Lou and I begin to think that things were coming together for us. Maybe this move was a really good thing for us...

Next time - part four - It's do or die time or "Okay, so NOW what do we do?"
- posted by Kim @ 2:59 AM