I’m hoping this is the weirdest interview question I will ever get for the rest of my life: What would your cat say about moving to Kelowna? It just goes to show you will never be 100% prepared for an interview, so I suggest you formulate your answer to this in advance of your next [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Now that you have some time you can write more blog stuff
So a friend said when I mentioned that I’d left the new job that I started two weeks ago (and only worked four days for). It’s nice that someone feels they’d benefit from this move on my part. I now owe my friend John a beer because he bet I wouldn’t last three weeks at [...]
I heart contemporary dance
One thing I look forward to every summer is a new season of So You Think You Can Dance. It’s been TV crack for me ever since I happened to catch an episode in its second season, and I was happy to see that they started making a Canadian version last year. I think what [...]
Karmic insurance
That’s what I told Mom I’d been paying the last few days by the amount of pain I’d been in. Normally I’d just say it was divine retribution for past wrongs, but I can’t have done all that much since I paid up last year. I feel like running out and robbing a bank or [...]
Music for a bad economy, part two
I was recently asked at the end of an interview what music I listened to (this was in regards to the very-strange-in-an-IT-worker music degree I have). I was asked this after I was dismissed for not being a jazz fan (in retrospect I wish I’d asked the guy which sub-genre he was referring to and [...]
Coming back
In case you were wondering, the reasons I took down all my blog content were as follows: I had applied for a job with a company whose corporate image was sort of counter to that which I portray on my blog, except maybe for the cute pictures of cats; I was worried that they might [...]
