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Hello, friends.
It’s been a few days since I’ve written a blog post or visited BearBlog at all. I haven’t been doing my usual routines — reading articles, watching HowTown videos, pondering about life — but that’s because I’ve been out touching some grass!
Kidding aside, I’ve been to a couple of interviews this week — that’s double the number of interviews I’ve gotten in my entire four months of job hunting. I know, it’s brutal. But I’ve been depressed and turns out my resume was unpleasantly convoluted according to my best friend.
This week I got an impromptu phone interview for a QA role in a private logistics company just twenty minutes away from home. I was invited for a final interview yesterday and got a tour of the facility. It’s less wet laboratory and more working on the cold chain distribution of products for this certain green mermaid coffee shop.
Now, there are two main subspecialties of my major. How I ended up working in the field of Food Microbiology when I leaned towards Medical Microbiology also perplexes me, but it’s a job nonetheless — my first one at that.
My would-be supervisor is really kind and told me how she wants me to enjoy my job, find little things to be passionate about while doing "what probably would be a boring routine inspection and documentation". The work culture, as I’ve observed, was really good. And the shifts are on the better side of the spectrum, because I’ve heard about more brutal schedules in similar roles from other companies.
I’d sign the contract right then. But I’ve also been shortlisted and invited for a division interview for our government’s Science and Technology agency. I’ve written about how I’ve always dreamed of working there. I checked my application tracker and that specific position was also the only one I’ve marked with “REALLY WANT”.
I feel so honored just by being shortlisted among hundreds of other applicants. I really, really want to go there. I have three more days to prepare for the interview but I’m also in some sort of dilemma. There’s a secure job already waiting for me at a private company and a dream job at a government agency that will probably take more than a month to be processed.
Monday would really end this extended busy week with a blast. After the interview, I’ll have to take Haku to the vet for his second-to-last shot, and then go to the Metro to meet with friends and celebrate them passing their licensure exam.
Hope the week has also been kind to you all.