I work more unemployed than employed

I cannot wait till I have a full time position!  Most people would be love to be in the situation with no office, sitting at home in your jammies, relaxing to the sweet music of Cake. 

Reluctantly crouched at the starting line,
Engines pumping and thumping in time.
The green light flashes, the flags goes up,
Churning and burning, they yearn for the cup.

By now I'm yearning for a Amp or Red Bull. Looking at my mail, looking at Monster.com and other career sites looking for that opportunity that jumps out.  Wondering which item of the day is most important.  Laundry, adding portfolio pieces, house cleaning, working on freelance, continuing the job hunt, or trying to bury Incarna's post (especially the last one) so that potential viewers see what I'm up to.  I have been twice as busy since I've been laid off and I have only taking a break on Sat & Sun.  I'm treating being laid off like a full time job.  Sure I'll msg my friends on gtalk or twitter here and there.  I'll also occasionally read my rss feeds, but I've almost been so busy to even do that.

Overall my interviews have gone pretty good, well except one.  I had a phone interview where I had to tell this crazy lady that I didn't want to work for her because she obviously didn't even know what her own position required.  She informed me that SEO and Google Adwords had nothing to do with the job.  However I could read the online posting for the job.  At that point I knew we wouldn't be a good match, but it still took her another 5 minutes before she got the idea that I didn't want to work there.

Besides that, there was only a few things that concerned me.  First, I was quite perturbed during an interview I recently had where someone insisted that I was fired from my job.  Fired != Laid off.  I work hard, I love what I do, and I ensure that the people I do the work for appreciate me.  Every single boss I've ever had has loved the work I perform for them.  I never miss deadlines.  And I do top notch work, based off the timelines I'm given.  I know I'm not the best designer in the world but I know tons of programmers that wouldn't know the first thing about vector vs bitmap images.  I was NOT fired for incompetence or poor performance.  I still have my last review in which I got a stellar review I think the worst thing on there was that I have to watch when I roll my eyes.

Other than that the only thing that has surprised me overall is that I tend to be doing more personality interviews than showing quality of work lately.  I understand that at every place of employment they have a different set of standards for interviewing, however I would think that seeing if the person can do the job would be high on that priority list.  I was willing at both positions to demonstrate my skills but it seems that they may solely have been personality interviews.

But then again, I just really could have bombed at all my interviews.  I really hope not, but sometimes it's hard to tell.  You can possibly get a vibe, but you rarely have anyone tell you honestly how well you did.  I'd actually like it if an interviewer told me why I wouldn't make a good candidate, and how I could change that (if I could change that).  I think I'd want to work for that company even more, after I got over the whole not getting the job.

Well today I'm working on some thank you letters and also have some Flash programming for OWLTS to work on, so I'm off to another day of work.

Tagged with: Flash, jobs, OWLTS, unemployment