Employment Review

This morning I ran late for the first time. I overslept and didn’t wake up until about an hour after I usually arrive at work. I didn’t get to work until about 9:30am. Consequently, my coffee is tepid at best, I’m un-showered, I’m still tired, and I have the frazzled nerves that rushing gives me.
I received two email messages when I finally opened my inbox. Both related to my employment review, which was apparently scheduled for 9:00am this morning, and to which I was not invited. My boss thinks this is hilarious. Consequently, my review is being rescheduled, likely for Monday, although possibly this afternoon. That’s just great.
Yesterday’s interview seemed to go fairly well. I spoke to various people over the course of one and one half hours: answering various questions, discussing my experiences, trying to explain how I went from an English diploma to an engineering degree, and asking questions about the work. I was stumped on one rather important seeming question: why do I want to work for a consulting company in lieu of a contracting company? (paraphrasing). I had no idea. My response: stammered generalities, silence, more stammering, and finally an admittance that I hadn’t thought about it. It seems important because I realized I would probably prefer to work at a contracting company (note: consulting company does designs and drawings and the like, spending much of their time in front of a computer, whereas a contracting company is the one who actually builds the stuff). I couldn’t say that, at the moment, I didn’t care because I just want a job as an EIT, which just wouldn’t be appropriate.
So now I’m still supposedly doing technical writing alone in the office with the over-exuberant air conditioner without a contract and, although the aforementioned interview might turn into something, I’m back to applying to every job or company that seems vaguely appropriate to my education…