Patience is a virtue, I hear...

and I must confess that I do not possess it at all. But a great many readers of this already knew that, I'm guessing.

No word from Yale yet. I have somehow managed to not bite all of my nails off; in fact, they are growing. The mind boggles.

I'll let y'all know soon as I hear, one way or the other. (Everyone clap their hands and say "I do believe in Yale, I do! I do!" and I'll get the job, right? I mean, it worked for Tinker Bell!)

Sort of related news, I didn't get the job working in the registrar's office at ND. "We found someone with more database experience, but we were very impressed with your technical credentials and your interviewing deportment." I didn't really want that job anyways.....but meh.

Thanks for all of the well wishes and support over the last two weeks!!

Erin Graduates, Gets a pseudo!Job, Gets Interview for real!Job...

So far all you Erin the SMiChick fans out there, here's a quick-and-dirty update (yes, the title does more or less sum it all up....but there's no fun in that!)

So I graduated! YAY! May 17th, 2008 shall forever be awesome. Plus that one summer class needed to graduate...yeah. DONE.

So I got an internship (besides the really fun one with Vince, Janice, Kathy, Dan and the IT Crowd)! I've been working for United Fixtures Co/Interlake. They make big steel...things. Like those big steel girder-esque things you see in Home Depot and Lowe's. Yeah, those're all ours. Other clients include but are not limited to: Wal*Mart, Meijer's, and some companies I've never heard of before this. I take care of: cell phone problems, documentation, rewriting manuals, SyteLine education, customer service initiative, and whatever else they want to make me do.

Hey, for a $10/hr internship, I'll do just about whatever they want. I drew the line at cleaning the office for them. Loudly.

So I applied for "real" jobs. You know, the ones with things attached to them. Medical, dental, retirement plans, etc. Those are rumoured to be handy. Had an interview with Zimmer mid-summer that went nowhere, had an interview with ND's Registrar's Office last Monday (I'll hear back from them on Thursday at the latest; I am SO overqualified for that position), and I am now in New Haven, CT for a third.

New Haven, Connecticut would be the home of Yale University, where I am interviewing for a position in their Information Technology Services, to be an Asst. Manager of the Student Technology Collaborative. Think...SMC's ResNet with more hands-on stuff and some Helpdesk practices thrown in. Super awesome. So far, so good. I'm in an awesome hotel, have a Yale loaner laptop and dinner with my potential future boss and her family was a lot of fun. We had seafood and ice cream and Nate (their little boy) didn't want me to leave at the end of the night. Aww. Major Parent Points were scored. (Didn't hurt that my fabulous past boss told her that I babysit and am generally full of awesome!)

So now I'm off to bed, because I've got a crazy schedule in the morning!
I'll let y'all know how it goes!!

PS I feel like such a Midwesterner...but Midwesterners are wonderful people!!