What to do? What to do?

So while I am downloading my medical packet for Spain I am searching for jobs in Massachusetts. Not a big deal to me but then I see Worcester Airport. I got excited since 1) It was in Worcester, my home state 2) it was at an airport, which I really want to work at and 3) it hadn’t closed yet. So since it required just a resume I put my download on pause and began to update it. I then submit it and begin downloading my medical forms again, waiting.

Well seven days after I put my resume in I get a letter from the City of Worcester saying, to interrupt what I think it is saying, thanks for your resume but don’t call us we will call you. So I continue to do my medical requirements for Spain while I await more information from Worcester. So I am done with all my medical stuff and just about to fax my stuff off and I get a missed call on my cell phone. Not a huge deal since I have really crappy reception at my dad’s house, so I finish faxing and then I check my voicemail and low and behold who is the voicemail from … Worcester Airport calling to set up an interview.

So then I look for plane tickets for the time frame they gave me for the interview days, Tuesday happen to be cheaper so I book a Tuesday up and Thursday home with hopefully a Wednesday interview, hopefully. So I try and call but it is Veterans days and I have to wait until tomorrow to schedule my interview. So I call at 10:15 or so and there is an appointment for Wednesday afternoon, perfect! So I pack my bag and fly up there. My older brother is putting me up for the 2 nights that I will be there and letting my use his car for the drive so I am good to go.

The morning of the flight I fly in tan slacks, a nice button down shirt and my favorite tie just in case the airline loses my bag that way I have something to go to my interview in. Fast forward to the day of the interview, I take Sean to work and then I have a few hours to kill before leaving from Quincy for Worcester. So I stop by my Aunt’s work, who is also my God Mother, which is all of 1/3 of a mile from Sean’s apartment and chat her up for about a half hours or so. Then I go for a run around the “neighborhood” which consist of a semi-busy two lane road over and back over Interstate 93 and then thru the back of a Home Depot back to the apartment building for a shower. I get dressed, looked online for directions and then I am ready to go. So I just on I-93, which I just eloquently ran over about an hour before, and drive up into Boston to catch “The Pike”, a.k.a. I-90, west to Worcester. On the way out I swing by my cousin Rob’s gym that he is at in Natick and chat it up for a bit before grabbing lunch and continuing to Worcester. I am out in the parking lot making sure my suit is all nice is pretty before going in.

So I make my way up to the office and they have me doing some paperwork before the interview. I get that done and then have to wait a few minutes before going in. So I am sitting there and I am being asked questions, pretty standard interview type questions, and I get asked what should be a simple slam dunk but I completely botched it since I couldn’t think of the answer to the question. Now I am interviewing for an Aircraft Rescue Firefighter position with duties that also include security guard work for the airport and the question is “define and give examples of the fire triangle.” Now about 15 seconds, which felt like 2 minutes, passes and I explain that I know it is a basic question that they ask on the first test of firefighter 1. It is then quiet for a few seconds again felt like 2 minutes and then I ask if there was another follow up question that I could answer to explain that I do actually know what I am talking about. So I answer that question to what I would believe was satisfactory and finish the interview.

So now is the waiting game. I am leaving for Spain on Monday, 3 days from now, and I hope that Worcester calls me for a follow up interview. The problem is that I would have fly from Spain back to the US, which isn’t a problem since I have 4 days off every 2 weeks.

Sorry for those who wanted to see my ARFF video but I should next time up next time.

Stay Frosty
-C