Job interview tomorrow!!!!!

EEK! I'm nervous!

It's with a company that provides network design/installation/support and a lot of other tech services. They're looking for an in-house Network Administrator/IT helpdesk person and it's all with windows and mac OSes!! No linux! No Solaris! No SQL! Wheeeeee!

Downsides: It's in Redwood City which is a 40 minute drive at rush hour and they want the person to be on call. The list of duties is quite long, it's a little daunting. If the on-call isn't all the time, I guess I can handle that. Don't like being on-call.

Upsides: It's right next to the train station, so if I could get to the train at this end, I could commute via mass-transit. It's perfect for expanding my abilities. They actually recruited during my CCNP1 class last week because they're looking for bright students. YEAH!

My resume wasn't finished from my Internship resume workshop and was on my PC at NASA. We didn't work Friday. Monday I was so busy I forgot to email it to myself. Today I got it revamped, ran it past the internship coordinator in charge of resume workshops, wrote a cover letter mentioning the needs of their company gleaned from their website and how I would be a perfect fit and with my supervisor's blessing faxed it off about 4PM today. I checked my email from the Cisco lab while Robert was configuring his router and there was an email from the contact person saying she had a 3:30PM slot open for an interview tomorrow and to please let her know if I could make it. WHEEEEE! Naturally, I called her immediately and accepted the time slot.

Wish me luck!

Six random facts about me

chymerikaen tagged me for this. OK. I'll play.

Once tagged by this entry, the assignment's to write a blog entry of some kind with six random facts about you. Then, pick six of your friends and tag them; no tag backs. This explanation should be included.


1. Eating orange peel or orange zest gives me hives.

2. I've bitten my fingernails ever since I stopped sucking my thumb. I keep my toenails very short, too. My reason for extremely short toenails is to make my socks last longer.

3. At age 14 while I camped with my parents at Pismo Beach, I went clamming for my first and only time and put the clamming fork through my left foot. Lesson learned? Keep your side to the waves if you ever go clamming.

4. I wear size 7 WWWW shoes. I have A width heels. It's the toes that are WWWW. They're also abnormally short and my second toes are shorter than my big toes. I think they're cute toes and not fingers like Eric has on his feet. LOL

5. After embarrassing my sister all through our childhoods by talking in funny voices in front of her friends (believe me, she had it coming), I taught her two sons how to sing "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" in munchkin voices when they were quite small. They said they weren't allowed to practice at home. teehee!

6. I stay quite calm in emergency situations. Only when they're over do I fall apart.


I can't decide who to tag. If you want to do it, do it!

Today's horoscope - prophetic?

Dear Linda,
Here is your horoscope
for Wednesday, November 15:

Right now is the time to focus on making sure your career is exactly where it should be. Put off making any and all decisions about your personal life until professional matters are well under control.

I got the job!! Holy sh*t. What have I done?

The interview went really well. They offered me the job on the spot. I like the people. I accepted. The money isn't great but it is an entry-level position. What has me worried is the on-call isn't scheduled. I could get a call at any time and have to go to a customer site to fix a problem. This means 4AM. This means weekends.

The two guys on the support team now have been working until 10 or 11 PM. I'm sure hoping they're only working that late because they've been short staffed for a while.

They have lunch brought in every day at no cost to employees. um... it just now occurs to me that maybe they don't take a lunch break.

Even though I don't start for two weeks, they've already booked flights and a room for Eric and me in Las Vegas for the company Christmas party. I've already told my boss at NASA that I took the job.

My cold feet developed on the way home. What have I done?

On the plus side, the office manager's husband does sound and voice-over for animations and animated commercials. Connections!

If this job really kills me, I can always look for another one. All the time spent going between customers sites will leave me opportunities to stick some interviews in if I need to.