Mood goes ... thunk.

[resonant]

So I got 100% on a Microsoft Excel test yesterday, and I came home from work and removed a metric shit-ton of junk from my basement today, and I was feeling pretty darned good.

And then the spouse e-mailed me a link to a job in New City, and I thought, "Well, it's more secretarial work, which I don't really want, but on the other hand I have to have a job and it might be good practice to apply for this one."

So I download the application, and like the first question after basic identification is, "Have you ever been fired or asked to leave a job?"

And now my stomach is full of live squirmy things.

Obviously I'm going to have to process my damned feelings about this thing, even though it was eleven years ago and the company no longer exists¹, because I really can't be in the middle of a job interview and suddenly have a belly full of squirm.

Everything in the whole world sucks.

¹(and even though my preference regarding emotions will be familiar to anybody who ever tried to write in the POV of John Sheppard or Benton Fraser)

Comments

[umbo]

*tons of hugs*

[china_shop]

Ugh! Don't you hate how persistent and long-lived those squirmy things can be?! Reminds me of this metaquote.

*HUGS*

[greyeyes]

Congrats on getting stuff done! I really need to learn how to use Excel.

I'm glad you made this post as I'll be job hunting in a year, if not sooner, and I suddenly realized I was "not re-hired" on an annual contract and may get asked about it. Things to think about. The questions I've not even considered are the *worst*!

[out_there]

*sympathies*

Oddly enough, I was talking about this with Mum last night. The topic of dealing with being fired came up on a comedy/advice show "The Agony of Life" and we were talking about experiences of losing jobs. I got fired (well, sat down and given the choice of resigning with 2 weeks pay or being fired with 2 weeks pay), and at the time, I was gutted. It's something I can wryly accept now, but we're talking almost eight years ago and I remember how devasted I was at the time.

*hugs*

[blueraccoon]

*hugs* My last job (before my current one) turned toxic thanks to my boss, and after months of it getting worse and worse they finally fired me. Cue two years of unemployment, and since it was both my last job *and* pretty much most of my relevant career experience...it made interviewing oh so much fun. Fortunately I was able to finally find a new job where they listened to my explanation of why the job turned toxic, believed me, and hired me, and now I have fantastic!job (better company, better pay, better everything). But it took two years. (The job market was also markedly worse at this point, so that had something to do with it.)

[norah]

IDEA: LIE LIKE A RUG. 11 years ago, the company no longer exists, and you're good at what they are asking for. NUNNA THEIR BUSINESS and will keep you from having a gigantic button out there going "PRESS ME" during interviews.