This has been a professionally and emotionally wild week. To start, on monday I got a "thanks, but no thanks" letter from my dream job. It wouldn't have affected me so much if I had applied and immediately got the rejection letter. Instead, I had been moved through the first couple of rounds and thought that I was pretty much "in like Flynn." Apparently not. Okay, back to the drawing board...
The very next day, I discover an almost exact dream job, only for another company. Crazy! AND they were actively hiring. Sweet. I send in my cover letter and resume right away. A few hours later I have an informational interview set up for the next day. This is almost too good to be true! So, I meet with the "company" and everything's legit and it's getting better by the second. Oh yeah, did I mention, it's with the Army? Yeah, and there's a required enlistment commitment -- which, let me say right now, I don't have problem with. However, my parents do. So much so, that I fear for their physical health were I to proceed down this path. Thus, after some hard prayer and contemplation, I determined I could not pursue this particular path to my dream job without my parents' blessings and support.
Back to square one.
In a moment of frustration I decide to call my dream job company and try and get some closure on why they turned me down. As luck would have it, I got to speak to someone that was able to answer all my questions. Quite simply, they love me...except for what "unofficial" prerequisite they have for hiring -- foreign experience. That's it?!?!?
So dear readers, as this blog was originally titled, I am on my way to Taiwan. Where I'll go after that? Who knows. I have some time to figure it out. In the meantime, I don't leave for Taiwan until June. A pretty crazy week indeed.
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Try the Air Force.
"don't pull that two weeks and i'm leaving for taiwan" again or you're fired. in the meantime...come up w/ your travel itinerary so i can look into getting a stamp in my passport.
You should probably consider going to multiple countries while you're so far away, might look EVEN better... Patrick's gonna be here sometime around then, and I believe Alla (from this past winter) might be making her way over here as well at some point, but that's not official yet. Could be a prelude to Peru, who knows. Cheers.
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