Snap! Crackle! Pop!

At a recent party with friends, I felt a little blue explaining my latest adventure in job hunting.  When asked for updates by caring chums, I described the grueling process of a pharmaceutical sales interview.  There are actually 4-5 standard steps: 

1) Phone interview

2) Initial face to face interview with a panel of managers

3) Second interview with managers

4) Spend a day shadowing a pharmaceutical rep so that they can report their opinion of you to the managers

5) Interview with your potential manger’s boss

This month I made it through all of these steps for a company, then suddenly with a snap, I was told “we decided to move in a different direction with the position”.  The feedback I received during this process was that I had too much experience and that they were uncomfortable with me accepting their potential offer which was a pay cut from my previous position.  Really?  Last time I checked this is a recession and almost everyone has been making less money.  Not to mention that this is sales…wouldn’t taking a cut in base pay be motivation to earn more bonus dollars?

Even though I was sharing this story with my fellow party goers, I was not a Debbie Downer.  I brought firecrackers.  I was really looking forward to the bright flicks of light and loud crackling sounds.  One of my good friends lined up the fireworks for a well choreographed display.  But when he lit the firecrackers, the wick only fizzled out to leave me once again disappointed.  My friend investigated the mystery of these duds.  The result:  The firecrackers were NOT fireworks, they were party poppers!  The party people still enjoyed pulling the strings to make the confetti pop out and of course a good laugh in my honor.

Success of the Day:  Realizing that sometimes things do not always play out the way you thought they would, so just roll with it

Pink Inspiration: The pink lighter that tried to light the "fireworks"