Friday, August 8, 2008

Houston we have lift off!

I had the meanest joke played on me today. However, the person who played it had no idea that was what they were doing, they just made a slight error that had me on a little emotional roller coaster for a short while.

Anyway, I applied to a shelving job at the library up on BYU campus, thanks to Elise who had given me the tip off. I sent in my resume via email and received one in return saying I could either go in for an interview or call during a certain time. So I set up a phone interview for yesterday morning, had a great conversation with the manager, and felt really good about it. He informed me that about 40 people had applied for the 13-14 open positions and that they would send out an email sometime this afternoon to let us know if it was a yea or nay. I got my email around three this afternoon stating that they were unable to offer me a job at this time, yadda yadda. I'll admit, I got a little teary eyed and extremely disheartened. After spending three plus weeks of applying to more jobs than I can count on my two hands I was a little frustrated, and kind of devastated. Not that I was dying to get this job, I just didn't want to have to start the process all over again (kind of like dating in an odd, cruel way). I immediately got back onto BYU's student employment page, however, and started looking at more options.

About a half hour later I saw out of the corner of my eye that I had a new message in my inbox. I clicked over to find a second email from the manager. A bit confused, but desperately hoping, I opened it to find this:

"Amelia: Please forgive me. I sent the wrong notice to you. Please read the following:


With this email we are offering you a job as Library Shelver beginning fall semester Yadda Yadda We’re excited to have you join our team."

There were a few exclamations of excitement added by more tears. Rachel thought someone had died or was pregnant and when she came to investigate she peered down at me and asked in that you-are-so-weird way, "Are you crying?" Yeah I'm crying! I have a job!!! Hooray! I won't be poor! I can feed myself! I can meet cute guys in the library! I mean...well you know :)

4 comments:

Rebecca W. said...

A little more info if you will...you left me hanging.

Jennifer said...

yahoo!!!!!

Elise said...

Hooray!!! I'm glad you got the job. And yes, you can definitely check guys out while you shelve I'm sure. :)

Katie said...

I am so jealous of your shelving job! You have the amazing privilege of having a better perspective on what books are really hanging out in the library. I would love a job like that! I am so happy that you got the job though! Congratulations!