It sounds like I'm talking about programming but I'm not. "Code share" is when two different airlines share a flight code, so that while your Travelocity printout might say you're leaving Vegas on US Airways flight 7054, you're really leaving on United flight 1553. Now how do you, as a passenger, know this? You don't. That's my point. My luggage knew it, but the US Airways agent didn't. She had never heard of flight 7054, but when she typed it into her computer, it came up as United 1553. I never saw anyone look so surprised as she did when she typed that in and actually got something back. But I still had to go all the way out to the ticket counter and get a boarding pass from a United agent, then go back through security to a totally different terminal than where I had come from. I got there just in time to board. And the irony is that according to my baggage claim ticket, my luggage knew where it was going all along. I should have just ridden in the suitcase.
In retrospect, I probably could have just gone to the United gate and gotten a boarding pass there. But no one could tell me where that gate was except the ticket agent. Not sure why. Even the monitors didn't show the United flight, and that's because it was in another terminal. So I took the long way but at least I got here.
So I think my interview today went well. It was a group situation where you sit at a conference table and your future peers throw interview-like questions at you. I haven't had one like that before but I've certainly heard of them. Intimidating? Yes. But it also gave me a chance to give some really good answers that show the breadth of my experience and what I've learned from it all. It wasn't perfect, but no interview is. You always come out of there thinking, why did I say that? Or, why didn't I say this? But it was good practice even if nothing else comes out of it. And I got to see a real studio.
Speaking of practice, I seem to have gotten two interviews for the price of one. Before I closed up the laptop yesterday and packed it, I checked my email. There was a note from a recruiter at ILM who wanted to schedule a time to talk. So I chatted with her this morning about a position very similar to what I interviewed for at Sony. I like her approach: She told me what it paid and what the shift was right up front. I always thought it was way better to know that stuff in the beginning because it sucks to go through a long, drawn out interview process, especially where travel's involved, only to find out at the end that you can't afford to do it. It's not a perfect salary but it's about what I expected and tomorrow I'll be contacted by someone who will schedule me for a phone interview with the render support department head. That will probably happen sometime next week.
Despite how broke I am nowadays, I hope I get to go to San Francisco for an interview. I would really like to compare cities and have a real choice before I have to make a decision. And besides, someone has to be holding Citibank up, so it might as well be me. How else do you think they could afford to take over Wachovia last week?
In retrospect, I probably could have just gone to the United gate and gotten a boarding pass there. But no one could tell me where that gate was except the ticket agent. Not sure why. Even the monitors didn't show the United flight, and that's because it was in another terminal. So I took the long way but at least I got here.
So I think my interview today went well. It was a group situation where you sit at a conference table and your future peers throw interview-like questions at you. I haven't had one like that before but I've certainly heard of them. Intimidating? Yes. But it also gave me a chance to give some really good answers that show the breadth of my experience and what I've learned from it all. It wasn't perfect, but no interview is. You always come out of there thinking, why did I say that? Or, why didn't I say this? But it was good practice even if nothing else comes out of it. And I got to see a real studio.
Speaking of practice, I seem to have gotten two interviews for the price of one. Before I closed up the laptop yesterday and packed it, I checked my email. There was a note from a recruiter at ILM who wanted to schedule a time to talk. So I chatted with her this morning about a position very similar to what I interviewed for at Sony. I like her approach: She told me what it paid and what the shift was right up front. I always thought it was way better to know that stuff in the beginning because it sucks to go through a long, drawn out interview process, especially where travel's involved, only to find out at the end that you can't afford to do it. It's not a perfect salary but it's about what I expected and tomorrow I'll be contacted by someone who will schedule me for a phone interview with the render support department head. That will probably happen sometime next week.
Despite how broke I am nowadays, I hope I get to go to San Francisco for an interview. I would really like to compare cities and have a real choice before I have to make a decision. And besides, someone has to be holding Citibank up, so it might as well be me. How else do you think they could afford to take over Wachovia last week?
