Interviews. Shudder.
I think it went ok though - probably one of the best interviewers I’ve ever had. But I couldn’t tell whether I was doing well or not. And I didn’t want to interupt, so I couldn’t insert brags about “I can do flexible hours!” when she paused for breath after talking about the timetable and such.
Every interview-advice site or book in the world never actually helps you with part time shop jobs. Or jobs you have no previous experience for. Jobs where you can’t say “I’m looking for promotion so I can be in the company the rest of my life!” because the employer knows it’s bullshit just as well as you do.
It was surprising short actually. Hopefully I did ok, I don’t know what the other people are like, but I should hear in 2 weeks time.
But anyway. We’ve already a lecturer that everyone hates - that “I’m going to teach your degree like I’d teach year 9s, so give me your notes to mark.”
Sod y’er. My notes are for me and just because they might not fit how you like to write your notes doesn’t mean you can give me that “well you didn’t write very much” look when I hand it in. Give me an essay and I’ll write it. Tell me to write about this extract and insert what I know as well, I’ll write it, albeit complaining I’ve better things to do with my time than write an essay that doesn’t count at my grade.
Summerising( or, parroting) a length of text is useless to me; bullet point notes I can look over, then go read the text if they’re useful, is more efficient than reading through pages of paragraphs trying to find something. Especially when I can’t add any links to anything else.
And she stutters - which, since she probably can’t help it, I wouldn’t hold against her if I didn’t hate her. But I do, so I will. Nothing is more infuriating than someone you hate, going on about stuff completely off the subject because she’s interested in it, and changes the lecture content when your course leader’s out the room, and doing all of that at 2mph not including saying “Um.” every two seconds, therefore extending your lecture by however long she decides to go on about classical art and haystacks and not explain how it is in any way related.
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