Thursday, November 13, 2008

Looking For a Job

Looking for a job is a bit like looking to get some action in a bar. It seems you spend a lot of your time on prospects. You walk into the bar scan the room and you spot her, the girl you could spend the rest of your life with, beautiful, huge smile, drinking a beer....a beer that's so me you think, and then her very handsome boyfriend walks up and plants one on her. That is the equivalent to going to apply for the perfect job and getting the "Sorry this position has been filled". As you continue your evening you are having some drinks and continuing to scope out the situation.


You see another girl, not beautiful but definitely someone who has attracted your interest, you try to talk to her, she is polite but not overly friendly, you buy her a drink and she continues to talk to you but she's not into you, you can tell, so you politely make an excuse and leave. You are both glad it's over. This is the phone interview that doesn't go well.


The night is wearing on and you are getting drunker but no closer to hooking up, you have talked to a few other girls with varying levels of success but not finding the right one, and now you are getting desperate and this isn't going to be pretty....you're going to go for a sure thing. Now this is a low point in anyone's night (jobhunt). The beer starts to taste stale, the music seems to drone your ears, everything gets blurry like an over exposed photo. You starting talking to girls who at the begining of the night you would have tried to avoid eyecontact with. One of these girls will say yes, they will, it's simply supply and demand. There are not many dudes who will go for them and no matter who drunk, ugly and desperate you look she needs it.


NOW, hopefully on the way out of the bar she needs to go to the washroom and while you are waiting for her you meet another girl, who doesn't necessarily want to go home with you but hands you her phone number and says to call her. This allows you to ditch the bathroom skank and get a good and safe night's sleep.......or you could end up working a starbucks.

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