Job hunting

Well even after my five hour interview ordeal I didn't get the test consultant job. It was a really strange rejection though, a week after the interview the HR girl phoned me and said (exact quote)

'I'm sorry were really gutted but we can't offer you a job'

Then went on to explain that the reason they took a week to call me was they where trying to squeeze me in somehow. Any how it was time to look for a new job, it was about half eleven and I had just walked into a job agency in Melbourne.

'I'm sorry you need to phone and make an appointment first' said the receptionist almost angry that I had dared to walk in uninvited.

'Ok, do you have the phone number of who I need to call? Are they busy at the moment?'

I got the number and he wasn't seeing anyone so I phoned him up and explained that I was in reception and would like speak to you about getting a job? To the receptionists dismay he agreed and we had a nice chat, he was shocked at how rude the receptionist was to me. I was just happy that I had phoned him from reception in front of her. It reminded me once of when I was in a curry house and they where taking so long to bring our food we phoned the take away number and placed our order again. They where very shocked to hear our address was table twelve.

The next recruitment place was even better, I walked in and the receptionist was just in the middle of sending me off explaining that they don't normally do IT jobs, as one of the recruitment agents I would latter get to know as Matt came in. The receptionist paused and looked at him as he said.

'Do we have any IT people on the books?'

The job was as a VB developer not my normal area of expertise, I explained that I had done some in college (it was only 8 years ago) and if he gave me a computer for a couple of hours I could learn it well enough to pass an interview. He lent me a training computer I downloaded VB 2005 express and set about teaching myself the language I would need to blag an interview. I then went straight to the interview still wearing my jumper that by now had some slight Chinese stains on it from lunch. I passed the interview on the spot and was due to start work the next day on a three week contract.

After Matt finished worked he call me and took me out for a beer, he was pretty amazed at what I had just pulled out of the bag, in fact a little to amazed to be honest. I basically did my normal conversational trick I use with guys of saying pretty much nothing apart from nodding yes or asking a question about their last sentence or two. Within an hour he was asking me if I would like to be the computer guy on a possibly very lucrative science project he was working on. Not content with this he also asked if I wanted to live in the extension he was just about to finish on his house and would I like to buy his car very cheap. I thanked him politely and left before he started stalking me. Its really weird how well people get on with you when you don't say anything.