So yesterday was action-packed and fun, yay!

The interview seemed to go pretty well. I don’t think I said anything incredibly stupid and I seemed to establish a good rapport with my prospective supervisor, so that’s good. They have someone else coming in next Thursday to interview, then they’ll choose between us. Whichever gets chosen, goes on to Round Two: a full day’s interviewing at the company’s Connecticut headquarters. Once they pass that, (and word has it that if you make it that far you’re golden) there’s Round Three: a half-day interview with the company psychologist. This sounds pretty bizarre, but once it was explained to me I warmed to the idea: the interview focuses on behaviors and how you approach your work. The psychologist then reports back to your supervisor with what type of personality you are and what the best way to deal with you is. This also establishes a baseline, and after three months the psychologist meets with you and your supervisor and you discuss what’s gone right, what’s gone wrong, what needs improvement, and what your goals will be for the next year. Looking back at past jobs, I can say that if I’d had this kind of third-party intervention things would have been much, much better!

Still haven’t heard from the Lafayette job, by the way. They want me up to interview, but they haven’t given me a date. Gee, maybe they’ll only have one round of interviews – how refreshingly novel 🙂

Last night there was another Western Suburbs Dinner at an Irish restaurant in Schaumburg, not far from the MFF hotel. We had a tremendous turnout (deep breath):
datahawk, posicat, Fuzzbear, Tony, Max, tincrash, steviemaxwell, Tybis, Axle, Fox, butterscotchvix, hazardous_roo, linnaeus, rusitobuck, Colin, duncandahusky, hartree, crim_ferret, wyldekyttin, Firewing, damnbear, lthrbear, aureth, jenwolf, neowolf2, Innerwolf, ashmcairo, sylverfox, daveqat, Synicism, moryssa

Whew. Sorry if I missed anyone, but I think that’s everybody. The place was a bit louder and a bit smokier than I would have liked, but the food was tasty (and the cider on tap was divine!). I got to play “social butterfly” a bit and that was fun. Got to meet some folks I hadn’t seen before (howdy lthrbear!) and hang out with friends I hadn’t seen in too damn long. It was just another reminder of how we need to haul our butts back up to Chicago. We even talked a little MFF business, which was nice to get out of the way. My throat was a mess when we got home from the shouting over the noise and the smoke, but it was a great time.

Then there’s today – not much going on, and I like it that way. Hmm – past 11 AM and we have yet to get breakfast. Linnaeus had to go in to work this morning, but at this rate I’m thinking he may well be able to join us for some food once we get motivated. We’re planning on doing a bit of geocaching, and probably cooking up some dinner around here. A low-stress kinda day, and I like it that way!

Tomorrow, I fly out at 10 AM. Back to the arms of the wolf I love – I’m looking forward to that!