July 9th's crazy crazy day!

So yesterday I went for a job interview for a marketing company. I had on black pants, a black tank top with a stripe shirt over it, and brown shoes, that, to some, looked black. But whatever. I wore flats because my heels just didn't seem to go.

So for one I got lost trying to find this place since I don't know Detroit and its surrounding cities very well. This especially includes the freeways. I'm so bad with directions. To add on to my natural lack of directional prowess, my phone's GPS decided that it hated me and in the middle of my drive (which had already been taking me the wrong way) the phone lost signal. I was on a freeway and I'm not big on crashing into anything trying to look where I should be going. So I finally pull over after driving around who knows what city. Lucky for me I recognized the area but that was mainly because I had been there at least once before driving the route myself. I was still lost regardless of this fact. So I called my mom. Before I left the house my mom told me where to go and I thought I was going that way. Obviously not. So I tell her where I was and what happened and I'm sure she thought I was a total idiot. I wouldn't be surprised though. She told me several times that she didn't know where I was even after I told her. There is a light at the end of the tunnel though and I was finally on the right path to getting to this interview. Mind you I left the house around 11am shouldn't have taken more than a half hour to get there but I wanna say I didn't get in the area until around noon or so. Then the problem came with the fact that I didn't know exactly where the building was. So I called that wasn't so hard since I was already in the area. I found it. The only thing was I needed to find a place to print off a copy of my resume and with lack of a job how am I supposed to buy ink? If I had known I would get lost so quickly like I did, relying on my GPS, I would've just gone to a nearby library.

I finally find a Fedex store after looking for it for a bit. I walk into the Fedex store and inquire about printing services and just my luck this store didn't offer it. It was solely doing shipping and receiving I guess. So I leave, and dare I mention the fact that many people in the parking lot were upset with me on different occasions. But hey I was on a mission. So the guy in Fedex tells me that there another store on another road that I wasn't really familiar with. Luckily all this time my mom was still on the phone and she guided me as best she could to where the place was. I finally found it after spending a bit of time lost and not familiar with anything. So I get to this store and feeling almost defeated I tell my mom, "It would be so crazy if they didn't have a printing service." With all the crap I had gone through already with driving and getting lost I was really just ready to go to this interview (or home) which ever came first. So I walk into this second Fedex store. There are quite a few people in this place. It's like 1:30 in the afternoon by now. So I'm think it won't be too hard to print out a piece of paper. The woman at the front was busy but she finally asked what she could help me with. So first I asked about the printing services after reading a sign that talked about what I was looking for, and she told me, "Yes, but we only have one computer available and someone is using it. But when she's done you can use it." So I'm thinking alright I can wait for a minute until this woman is done with this computer. The the woman that works there comes back up to me and tells me that if I sent an email to their stores email address that she could print it out and it would be faster. Well I'm here to tell you to never send a damn email to Fedex believing it would be faster. So I sent this email twice and I'm waiting patiently because I honestly didn't know how long she thought it would really take for me to send an email. Yeah it took me a little longer than normal because I wasn't entirely sure how it sent the first time but still. So I'm just standing there waiting at the counter. A woman that works there had been walking around and finally asked me if I needed help. I explained my situation while waited for the lady at the computer to leave. She didn't take that long but considering that I had already sent the email and was ready to print and pay I didn't understand the whole making it faster service thing. So I sat at the computer, I click on a few things trying to figure out what I was doing on Fedex's particular program set up. I went in thinking it would be a regular set up. Of course not. Why would I have thought that? I realized, finally, that there was a card device next to me and it accepted Visa, Master card, Fedex member card etc. So I'm thinking to myself, "I don't even have my debit card, does that mean I waited for nothing to get on this?" Unfortunately that was the case. I did wait for nothing and so I got up again. The woman that asked me if I needed help the second time told the store manager that I was waiting still and that I had already sent an email. The store manager says that as soon as his employee (the original person that assisted me) was done with the computer that she was on that she would assist me. I'm still waiting. I'm becoming more and more time conscious considering I had an interview at 2:15 pm that at this point I thought I was going to be late for. I was almost in a panic. After helping an Asian Woman that came in wanting five hundred copies of certain documents, the store manager showed me a book of resume paper and pointed out some of the more popular papers. So then they asked me whether it should be in color or in black and white. I got color just because it looked a little more fancy and seemed to stand out a bit more. There were only maroon lines dividing the sections of my resume so I didn't think it was that bad. So I finally leave of course I did turn the wrong way and have to turn around. I was so frustrated that I went into the store and bought two honey buns some hot chips and a Snapple Apple juice. I get on the right track and make to my building in time. I was hungry because I'm on a diet and upset and screwing my diet up but also I was nervous because this was the first interview actually second but first in person interview since graduating college.

So I walk into this building and see elevators that I took up to the third floor then there was a sign on the wall with the name of the company I was going to interview for, along with other company offices. So I reach the door. When I walked in it was a fairly small room and there was only one other person sitting there along with the receptionist that greeted me, of course getting my name wrong. She was tall and thin in pretty nice looking clothes. The other person was a light skinned person that didn't bat an eye when I walked in. The receptionist gave me a form to fill out and told me to bring my resume up along with the form when I was done. Then three other people came in, I was still filling out my form while the others were done and talking with one another. The first girl that was there was called in and then I was called in by a tall nicely dressed man. We walked through a door into a room that harbored other fairly big rooms. I walked into a blue room. I didn't look around much because I wanted to make eye contact as best I could. He told me a bit about the company I talked about myself and then it was over in no time. I don't think I waited fifteen minutes to get the interview and it probably only took fifteen minutes to do the interview. So I leave. My adventure was over and I wanted to just go home more than anything.

I'm driving, thinking I've got this going back but no, of course I go the wrong way to the wrong freeway and ended up on the other side of the world. I end up calling my mom and she freaks out like "How did you get all the way over there? That's nowhere near where you were coming from." Yeah certainly directionally challenged person here. So I get back on the freeway headed in the right direction home but it was far from over. I get near my exit and am too far over to get to it. So I just went over my grandparents since I was headed in that direction and on the express way so it was impossible to get off at a closer exit.

I get to my grandparents house and I just want to sit down. I did for a minute. I wasn't driving or anything until my grandfather wanted me to take him to the store. So I did without hesitation. He took forever in the store because he's an old man. Then I dropped him off at home said my goodbye's and left for my home that's about fifteen minutes away from my grandparents place. I finally get home and end my journey. I'm sure it was long after 5pm when I got home and I was supposed to get a call from the company I interviewed for between 4-5pm but I guess I wasn't a 'good fit' and didn't have 'the look.' After the whole fiasco I was ready to quit before the interview and a part of me is glad that I don't have to go there all the time. I wouldn't get lost as easily but I certainly wouldn't have wanted to take that drive all the time.


The interview was a bust, the drive was ridiculous there and back and I gave myself one more glimpse of how sucky at life I am. Yet, I haven't given up a bright future truly doing something I care about. Whatever that may be.