Jingle, Jangle!
The phone's ringing. Usually it's your mom calling to remind you to put the dishes in the dishwasher, but for once it's not. It's THE CALL. The call you've been waiting for, the call you've been springing up from the coach like a rabbit on steroids every time your phone rings. It's the call from that job. Not a job but THE job.
THE Call of Desire
For every job hunt, there's always one application that you fill out, hoping, because for some reason it's just better. Better pay, better location, better uniform, but somehow better. It's the one you pray to whatever god(s) you want that the boss see's something in your application or at least sees your application. Maybe, just maybe, your application won't end up on the floor being used as a doormat or stuffed in a drawer next to the paperclips. And when it lands in the hands of that boss with a phone in hand, it just might be your lucky night. But after a good interview your only hope is to get the call.
The Pace Maker
You can pace around the house, your apartment, your mothers apartment, your box, as much as you like. You can keep an eye on that cell phone day and night with it obviously set on earth shatteringly loud just in case you get into a freak accident involving saving a turtle from being smashed on the road but this heroic act causes hearing damage that would have made it impossible for you to answer your phone but thankfully you have it set to earth shattering frequency so that phone call was received. But in the end, it won't ring until it rings.
"Hello" (Please don't say anything stupid!)
Hello, can be a terrifying word. Running around crazy, like a chicken with it's head cut off when your phone rings is somehow suppose to result in a calming "Hellooo". Whether it does or not is another story but that first conversation with your new boss is terrifying.
In the span of one sentence a employer can simply say
"We really liked what you brought to the interview and we would really like to hire you."
But it that one sentence the other line is thinking.
"Oh my god.I'm so nervous. I can't understand what he's saying. Does he have an accent? Maybe, I missed something important. Oh my god, I'm so nervous. Where is that damn pen and paper I had sitting right next to the phone for when this situation happened? I'm still nervous. Why am I still sitting in my pajamas it's almost noon. That's stupid it doesn't matter he can't see me. I'm still so nervous I can't think straight. OH MY GOD! He just offered me a job!"
How can phones have so many apps, so many features but when it comes down to that call, it doesn't matter if your sitting on a stool by your grandma's phone on the kitchen wall with the cord strung around your hand or on an iPhone in coffee shop, there's no way to take out those nerves.
In the span of one sentence a employer can simply say
"We really liked what you brought to the interview and we would really like to hire you."
But it that one sentence the other line is thinking.
"Oh my god.I'm so nervous. I can't understand what he's saying. Does he have an accent? Maybe, I missed something important. Oh my god, I'm so nervous. Where is that damn pen and paper I had sitting right next to the phone for when this situation happened? I'm still nervous. Why am I still sitting in my pajamas it's almost noon. That's stupid it doesn't matter he can't see me. I'm still so nervous I can't think straight. OH MY GOD! He just offered me a job!"
How can phones have so many apps, so many features but when it comes down to that call, it doesn't matter if your sitting on a stool by your grandma's phone on the kitchen wall with the cord strung around your hand or on an iPhone in coffee shop, there's no way to take out those nerves.
