"Everything works together for good"
Unemployed, day 12-
Nicky Romero- "The Moment" (Two-Fold Remix)
My day starts with a long ride in the car
husband driving, home made coffee in travel mug
(to save time), phone as GPS.
We navigate to the city.
We find the big building where I need to be
by 10:30.
It is 9:40.
We decide to go to a local coffee shop.
The map takes us to the right intersection,
but it's not there.
Only another bank.
We follow the GPS in the phone
to a nearby starbucks.
It's right over the river, in a fun place
known as Five Points. It's a little shopping district.
I've been here before, during happier times.
We get the Starbucks and we start making our way back,
in case of traffic.
10:08
We get to the road we need to turn left on
to get to the big bank building.
A small black car has just crashed into the corner street light,
cops are flying up with their sirens blaring,
people are stuck in the intersection.
You have got to be kidding me.
I prepare to get out of the car and run.
Just run.
I will carry my high-heeled shoes along with my resume
and I will run.
Past sketchy homeless people,
past creepy old buildings... I will run three blocks
and I will be sweaty, but I will be early.
Husband says "no".
He turns the car and works around the jam
going up two intersections,
next left,
next left again.
Back to the right street where the interview awaits.
I arrive at 10:18.
The interview is at 10:30.
I am still early.
I don't even get called in to the woman's office until 10:55.
I have never been to an interview like this.
After explaining why I am unemployed and out of a good 6-year job,
Part of it was being taken to a small room
with a cash drawer of fake bills and plastic coins,
a computer, and several pads of paper.
My assignment was to answer as many questions I could
on the computer
in 12 minutes.
They were a combination of math and alliterations
with a little geometry thrown in.
There was no using my phone to google or pull up a calculator.
I still got through 40 questions.
Afterward, my assignment was to count the cash drawer,
write down the totals, and add it.
Also without a calculator.
I think I got it right.
She told me I would be going on to the next step.
Meeting the branch manager of the branch where I would be needed.
I would meet him the next day at 2:00.
For the first time in a few weeks, I felt calm.
I felt like having fun.
So husband and I browsed the shops in Five Points.
The rest of the day, as we did other errands,
went home, wrapped our day up,
my mind kept going back to one particular part of the interview.
Something this woman said to me, twice.
After I told her about getting stiffed by my "other job" that I was going to
when I left my previous one.
"Everything will work together for good"
she kept saying that.
At least twice.
"That's funny, my mother always says that. She quotes the bible
but it's the same idea." I told her.
Of course this HR woman can't legally quote the bible
to a potential candidate for employment
who comes from God-knows-what kind of religious background.
But she still found a way to quote it.
And it kept echoing through my head.
echo, echo echo.
"Everything works together for good"
Nicky Romero- "The Moment" (Two-Fold Remix)
My day starts with a long ride in the car
husband driving, home made coffee in travel mug
(to save time), phone as GPS.
We navigate to the city.
We find the big building where I need to be
by 10:30.
It is 9:40.
We decide to go to a local coffee shop.
The map takes us to the right intersection,
but it's not there.
Only another bank.
We follow the GPS in the phone
to a nearby starbucks.
It's right over the river, in a fun place
known as Five Points. It's a little shopping district.
I've been here before, during happier times.
We get the Starbucks and we start making our way back,
in case of traffic.
10:08
We get to the road we need to turn left on
to get to the big bank building.
A small black car has just crashed into the corner street light,
cops are flying up with their sirens blaring,
people are stuck in the intersection.
You have got to be kidding me.
I prepare to get out of the car and run.
Just run.
I will carry my high-heeled shoes along with my resume
and I will run.
Past sketchy homeless people,
past creepy old buildings... I will run three blocks
and I will be sweaty, but I will be early.
Husband says "no".
He turns the car and works around the jam
going up two intersections,
next left,
next left again.
Back to the right street where the interview awaits.
I arrive at 10:18.
The interview is at 10:30.
I am still early.
I don't even get called in to the woman's office until 10:55.
I have never been to an interview like this.
After explaining why I am unemployed and out of a good 6-year job,
Part of it was being taken to a small room
with a cash drawer of fake bills and plastic coins,
a computer, and several pads of paper.
My assignment was to answer as many questions I could
on the computer
in 12 minutes.
They were a combination of math and alliterations
with a little geometry thrown in.
There was no using my phone to google or pull up a calculator.
I still got through 40 questions.
Afterward, my assignment was to count the cash drawer,
write down the totals, and add it.
Also without a calculator.
I think I got it right.
She told me I would be going on to the next step.
Meeting the branch manager of the branch where I would be needed.
I would meet him the next day at 2:00.
For the first time in a few weeks, I felt calm.
I felt like having fun.
So husband and I browsed the shops in Five Points.
The rest of the day, as we did other errands,
went home, wrapped our day up,
my mind kept going back to one particular part of the interview.
Something this woman said to me, twice.
After I told her about getting stiffed by my "other job" that I was going to
when I left my previous one.
"Everything will work together for good"
she kept saying that.
At least twice.
"That's funny, my mother always says that. She quotes the bible
but it's the same idea." I told her.
Of course this HR woman can't legally quote the bible
to a potential candidate for employment
who comes from God-knows-what kind of religious background.
But she still found a way to quote it.
And it kept echoing through my head.
echo, echo echo.
"Everything works together for good"
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