it was a small, aging industrial city with a graying working-class population.
This sounds like where I grew up.
When I visited after college (now 9 years ago), they were trying to revitalize the riverfront.
As does this.
The city's website makes it sound like a nice place. But it doesn't fit the parameters of where I'm looking to settle. And with the big 40 looming larger and larger, I do want to settle somewhere and put down roots. Unless I have a chance to do something incredibly cool (like work in NYC or Geneva) in which case I'd postpone the whole root thing indefinately.
What you might get out of the trip, even if it's just interview experience, is for you to worry about.
And heaven knows I could use the interview experience. I did have a phone interview last week. But I haven't had a sit-down with the head honchos -type interview in about 8 years. Hmmmm.
Found this in an update about the Bravo and Sundance Channels:
On Jan. 1, Trio, a lively little pop-culture channel Zalaznick had prodded along for nearly half a decade, died. NBC took it off the few places where it was still seen (including Time Warner’s digital tier in Kansas City) and replaced it with Sleuth, which airs reruns of detective shows.
But TrioTV.com lives on, and beginning in March three Trio staffers — all hired over to Bravo by Zalaznick — will be turning little-seen TV gems into streaming video. The first title will be “EZ Streets,” surely one of the most ambitious network shows ever tried, from “Crash” screenwriter Paul Haggis, that aired briefly on CBS in 1996 and 1997.
AOL.com has announced similar plans to stream old Warner Bros. TV shows over the Web. But Zalaznick, a former indie-film producer, has bigger plans. She wants to take Trio’s beloved “Brilliant But Cancelled” series and develop it on the Web as she was never able to do on cable.
Yeah, if a hire-er wants to pay you to travel, that's their business. If you don't want the job, I wouldn't bother, but it might be An Adventure, anyway! At least, probably more of an adventure than the time I went to the beautiful Lewiston-Auburn metro area -- I was keeping my mother company on the drive to and from a meeting, and spent the rest of the time reading in the car. Awesome.
When I visited after college (now 9 years ago), they were trying to revitalize the riverfront.
I'm not sure this worked out too well. I was there in July for a wedding and again this Xmas. It looked like the Lewiston I remember from my youth (gray being the operative term).
Now, it's a magnet city for refugeee resettlement (Somalis, of all people), so it's probably a lot less white than I remember.
This went a little smoother, but the "native" population (aka heavily Quebecois-descended) handled only slightly better than the South Bostonians handled busing in the 60s. Somehow the ancillary cultural backlash in the town led to Lewiston becoming the state center for anti-gay legislation efforts (which thankfully recently hit a major speed bump that made national news).
Take the interview, Calli, and consider it an investigation on both of your parts. They want to see if they want to hire you and you should not be expected to know yet if you want to work there. Their candidate search is already budgeted, anyway.
I'm interviewing for jobs too (got a callback today for a place I'm only somewhat interested in) and sometimes I find that knowing too much about a place makes interviewing a little stilted.
the "native" population (aka heavily Quebecois-descended) handled only slightly better than the South Bostonians handled busing in the 60s. Somehow the ancillary cultural backlash in the town led to Lewiston becoming the state center for anti-gay legislation efforts (which thankfully recently hit a major speed bump that made national news).
Gleh! OK, good to know.
They want to see if they want to hire you and you should not be expected to know yet if you want to work there.
This is true. And it would be nice to see some snow this winter. No sign of it coming to NC any time soon.
I'm interviewing for jobs too
Congrats and good luck!
Dear Coworker,
While I understand you're trying to convey a red-hot sense of urgency, please note that the overabundance of exclamation points only makes me want to kill you. When that happens, I have to walk away from my desk for at least five minutes, which means that it actually takes me more time to process your request.
Ta,
shrift
Emily's Reasons Why Not has been cancelled. It's official. I'm a curse. And that's the fastest it's ever worked. Usually my friends can get four episodes off.
Another cancelled meeting! Work is insane. Nothing until three now. At least my curse works for the good here.
Whoa! Didn't it only have one episode?
Give yourself a finger, get nine years in prison.
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