(Hey this is my 100th post! Cool.)
Anyways. I just got back from a job interview, which I feel went well. Great little company, works on Mac, lots of Illustrator and layout work. They have a GREAT website, which you don't come across very often, especially for a small place like that. And they had great guest reviews, too. Choice. Liked the place alot. I met the owner, and was given an applicaiton to fill out and a calculator.
Crap. Math. At 8:30 in the morning.
I'm filling out the application, everything's going well, until I turn to the math portion. Where I must convert decimals to fraction and visa versa. Oh. My. God. I totally bombed.
Which is what I told the interviewer as soon as I handed it back to him. "My math portion is a MESS." (At least I'm honest, right?)
If only I had had my handy-dandy much beloved and well worn copy of my fractions to decimals worksheet with me. It was the only thing that helped me pass (barely) building math back in school. I freakin' love that thing. I used to carry it with me everywhere in my notebook. If I lost it, I honestly think my brain would ooze out of my ears onto the desktop. Actually, I'm surprised that I haven't put it up on the server for safekeeping before this moment.
So what is all this rambling for? I'm probably not going to get called for the job. Which is a shame, but what I expect. Like Trav said, it's all experience, one more interview behind me.
At least next time I'll be prepared. With my worksheet.
Dude, I've got a busy day ahead of me. I've gotta go memorize some conversions...
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5 comments:
SAY WHATTTT! why on earth did you have to do math? i mean isn't that what that handy dandy chart is for in the first place? i bet the have it as wallpaper in the bathrrom. they are pulling your leg.
yeah what the hell!??! that makes no sense!
No doubt. But hey... congrats on the 100th post! I can't believe its been that long!
Oh yes. It was a sign making type place, where the designers were responsible for placing the orders for custom plaques and such, so I guess they needed to make sure that you knew what you were doing when it came to resizing. The program worked in decimals, the ordering in fractions. It wasn't totally horrible, but I did have a few traumatizing eighth grade algebra flashbacks when I was trying to figure out how to do the conversions and failing on ALL counts...
quelle horreur!
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