Waking up with what feels like the plague is a great way to start your day filled with interviews. After shambling around the apartment popping cold pills and chucking back water like a drunken camel I was able to pull myself together enough to go to my first interview.
The interview was for a fundraising job for the independent party, nothing they said sounded like anything that was ever going to get done, but hey it’s a job. I took a cab to the interview and decided I would try and find my way back to the apt on foot seeing as I needed to get used to the city anyway…terrible idea.
I knew the walk from where I was to where I was going was about an hour but when you get lost it’s more like an hour and forty five minutes. I was doing fine until I got nervous and asked some asian hipster, alternative chick for directions. I got turned around and wandered aimlessly around downtown before giving up and hailing a cab. The cabbie was nice enough to inform me that had I kept going the direction I was going I would have gotten to my destination…but not for another 2 hours.
I get back to the apartment an hour before my next interview. I rest, I leave and I’m 5 minutes late. Apparently that didn’t matter because this was one of those “show up and you have the job” kind of jobs…unfortunately it was with a security company and apparently in the state of NY you need a security license to work that job…which costs 80 dollars I don’t have to get.
The 80 dollars sounds like a great investment until you consider that the pay is weak sauce compared to what I would be making at a bar, and you can’t work any other security job or bouncing job while you are working with one particular firm. I’ll take my chances with the bar scene and phone work.
I got myself some food, walked to the L, trekked through Williamsburg, met up with Lindsey and traversed the hipster scene of Brooklyn. All and all it wasn’t a terrible evening but by the end of this day I was simply exhausted. Tomorrow is more job hunting and praying the fundraiser people call me.
Wish me luck friends.
KH-
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