Got a call on my way in to work this morning from a place I'd interviewed at and thought the interview (panel) had gone well. A week had passed and I hadn't heard anything and thought...oh well. I had really liked the idea of the job. Three 9's, 27hours a week, benefited. Leaving two days a week I could work per diem at the surgery center, thereby still seeing my friends and keeping my hand in in acute care.
So...call this morning. Loved me, unanimously wanted to offer the job to me. That was flattering. Then he asked when I could start...I said Monday. He said, oh, I thought maybe two or three weeks. I reminded him I was working per diem at the surgery center and had a flexible schedule. He hemmed and hawed and said well....we still need to do the background check, drug test, etc. I said, okay, when would you like me in for the drug test? He hemmed a little more. I'm not in the system yet, he just doesn't know. Sigh. The pay he quoted is nice, higher than they had ballparked at the interview.
This evening he calls again. He expects that they'll be ready to start me...November 30th. Hoo boy. Okay, glad to be aboard, etc etc etc. I can hang on financially that long, I could make it through January if I needed to. But it would have been nice to start a little sooner than that. Oh well.
And wouldn't you know it, NOW people are calling me for interviews, some of them very interesting positions. LOL...famine...or feast.
I am excited about the job. It's the one I'd wanted the most, because of the flexibility it offered me to work both places. And because the job itself sounded fun. |