Interview Day

I'm off to Port Moody today for an interview. It's for a relatively low-level web-tech job. Nonetheless, I'm excited about this for a couple reasons. For one, it is a part-time gig; it is surprisingly difficult to find steady part-time work. I want a job to cover necessary expenses and leave me enough time to pursue other things. Most of the work out there is either short-term contract at full-time or greater hours or plain-old Monday-to-Friday full time. Unless something as satisfying as my old job with Lignum comes along, I'm just not prepared to put that much energy into making money for someone else. The second thing that is exciting about this interview is that it is not a something I found through an ad or a recruiter - this came to me because of my previous work with the City of Port Moody. I developed their original website in 1996 and a subsequent update in 2000. One of the people from the Port Moody's communications department that I worked with on the 1996 and 2000 sites was at Elaine's opening at the Port Moody civic art gallery. After the initial "where do I know you from?" conversation she mentioned the opening (which had actually already "closed" but interviews hadn't begun yet) and that I should send her my CV. This position was created to support the website that I wrote. I trained the first person to hold this job.

This is just the sort of thing I've been looking for to back up building the business and maybe opening a store.

Cakewalk

Nothing quite like interviewing for a job you don't need, It makes a huge difference to how relaxed you can be in the interview, and of course it is good to be relaxed. If it wasn't for this fact, and the fact that I was interviewing for a job that I basically created in first place it could have been a brutal interview. I was put at the end of a table and interviewed by four people, reading from a set of scripted questions and taking notes the whole time. The only thing missing was the little overhead light and the "bad cop" with a flashlight. LOL. I feel sorry for anyone else interviewing for this job, but it certainly bodes well for actually getting it. But the fun thing is, it's no skin off my nose if I don't. I'm good either way.

An icon of Peter (post hypnosis) would be more appropriate than Milton in this case.

And in other work related new, I finally got my first cheque from Tolko, oddly enough for my second invoice to them. Apparently I won't be getting the cheque for my first invoice until late next week. I really don't want to know what that says about their accounting system, just so long as the money shows up.

Axa Place

Axa Place, at the north east corner of Burrard St. and Hastings St., Vancouver, BC.