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Got a Job, Now More Interviews Coming
I posted this originally in 9 to 5 but wanted to put it here too just in case:
I didn't know where else to turn with this dilemma. The few family members I've spoken about it with say that's just how it goes, once you get a job the other offers start coming. I took the current one because it came first, was good pay, and I have bills to pay. Note I just started it on June 17.
A little background: I have a Masters and Bachelors in elementary education; received the Bachelors in 2008 and since then have not been able to get a teaching position. It's five years later and my student loans are now going in repayment and since I've not taught yet one of the big ones has not been forgiven (if I teach five years in the state one is forgiven fully.)
Anyhow, June 19 I get TWO calls on lunch to interview for two other positions I'd applied for, one at a college for a nice staff position that's guaranteed three years maybe more if their grant holds and one as an activities coordinator at a local nursing home less than ten miles from my house. I interview for it Monday after work and did a prelim phone interview with the college Friday after work. It went well and they asked about coming to campus next week for an in person one and I explained my situation with this work training and they're going to try to work around the schedule. I hated to be like that but I had to have a job so I can pay on bills.
Got home yesterday and checked the mail...biggest shock of my life to pull a letter out from a nearby county's school district that tells me my teaching app has been sent to a schools site base to be called for an interview.
My problems are that I cannot miss training during the day this coming week or the next to go to day interviews but either of these three other positions would be better than what I have now. Now I'm having to travel a greater distance and while the job would be nice if it were straightforward, they have this quality team in place to make it hell--one example being if you stutter over two words in a call its automatically a bad call. Three bad calls and you're reprimanded and wrote up. I hate situations where the environment is hostile as to thinking the only way to run a successful business is through control, threatening, and consequences.
Any advice? I'm stressed out. I have a lot of medical bills to pay and I've been blessed with these chances and either of the three new jobs would be wonderful. But you can also see my further stress caused by the fact that I've finally got a chance with a an elementary school that would make it a little more dream like. I'll stop rambling now. Thanks for your time.
Re: Got a Job, Now More Interviews Coming
Generally schools will be pretty flexible on scheduling interviews, at least in my area they are. I would go for one of those two since they have the added benefit of getting your loans paid off (or some of them at least). I would call and explain to them that you have a summer job (should not be abnormal for them to hear) and that you would need to schedule the interview around that job. See if that will work. Otherwise, I may get :cough: :cough: sick one day and have both interviews scheduled the same day, just far enough apart that you have no problems making it to both.
Good luck! I don't know why this seems to happen, but it does- had this happen to me when I got my job last year, however I was perfectly happy with the first job so I just turned down the other interviews. Sounds like you need to take advantage of these other interviews to get yourself somewhere friendlier.
I agree with PP. Interviewing cannot hurt, if only for the added experience of doing it.
Plus, it doesn't sound like the current job will be tolerable, given the working conditions, for very long. Test the waters see what else you can land.
IF you got a school job the simple response for resigning from your current job is that it's what you studied and where you want to be long-term.
For scheduling interviews...get "creative." Try to make them all on one day (good advice from PP) but spread apart with lunch or hours in between.
Or :cough: make a "doctor's appointment" for a work day morning and hit up one interview then. Then a week or so later, have a "follow-up" appointment with the doctor and do the other interview.
Whatever happens, you are in a very wonderful spot. Many people would love to have multiple interview offers these days!
So I went in to see about taking the next training class at the current job; they called me back twice, the second time saying they wouldn't let me do that (when they've let others) and they terminated the employment. I had the activities interview and it went okay--the lady just talked mostly instead of interviewing me and said they would narrow things down and call us back for a second interview sometime soon.
I'm still waiting to see about getting called for a second interview with the college to go on campus; they said they should have them mid this week or early next week.
And I've not heard anything from the elementary school; still praying something comes from it.
I'm seriously in limbo right now and not liking it. I hated giving up the other job but I had to take the chance to do these interviews plus I was out more in gas (half a paycheck) doing it. I got a call the other day about a similar job closer to home that pays a dollar less an hour and I'm going to call about it tomorrow or the next day (trying to give the others time to call me back.) I may be too late for it because they called while I was out of town and my husband didn't tell me about it...I only heard it when cleaning off the answering machine. Please keep thinking happy job thoughts for me.