A little something different

So, I'm not really going to talk about my workout today. Or for the past few days. I have been doing them and sticking to the diet and am down about 15 pounds. That's really all there is to say about that.

I would like to discuss my current job situation. I am currently in a job that I do very well, but I absolutely loathe. I hate being a cube monkey, strapped to a desk for 8 hours a day. I guess the only difference between my job and prison is that I get to leave when I'm done. But I always have to come back. Since October of last year I have applied for 11 positions with my current employer. I have interviewed for approximately 8 of those positions (2 were cancelled, one I was passed over as being "not qualified" for the position). I applied for a position that I felt like I was really qualified for in the sense that I have kind of done the job before. I say kind of because I did the job on the property side and this is the auto side. I know the demands of the job and feel like I was successful in my last post with the organization. I had a phone interview last Thursday and I felt like it went really well. I was feeling pretty pumped. I got the dreaded form email today that basically stated "thanks, but no thanks." Good thing that it came late in the day, cause I left after I received the email.

Now, I have to wonder why this has occurred. And what I can do to fix it. I feel like I interview very well for the most part. I admit that I could be wrong, but I know that I have had many strong interviews in the past. I have done everything I can to prepare for these interviews and for the most part felt like I was good enough to be moved on to the next phase of the interview process (they all start off with phone interviews initially). I haven't even been selected for a second interview. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that there is something else at work here. Maybe I have a mark against me in my employee file that I don't know about.

I'm really starting to see the connections between my new job search and my dating life. Well, what used to be my dating life. You see, I got rejected so many times by the ladies that I just gave up. I decided that since the ladies all thought they were too good for me I was too good for them. So I have taken myself out of the dating game. The bachelor life really suits me. Like an Armani. Unfortunately, I can't just abandon work and say that I don't need it because clearly I do. But I have made up my mind that I am going to look for other positions in which I can hopefully move up the chain a little more efficiently than my current employer.