I didn't get the high-tech job

[figmo]

The recruiter found out from his computer, not from the company, that they went with the other candidate.

I am less disappointed and more relieved than I ought to be.

Comments

[firedrake-mor.livejournal.com]

Know anyone who needs a creative director or senior designer up your way? I'm looking to get out of L.A.

[figmo.livejournal.com]

Alas, not offhand.

Understanding and agreement

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the "no" you hear from one employer can be a very good thing, particularly when it leaves you free to hear a "yes" from somebody further down the road. Recently I did just well enough talking on the phone to a local country-rock band to be second or third on their list. (They'd never heard me and still haven't.) Louie and I went out to hear them, packing our new keyboard in the back of the car as that was the instrument they talked about my sitting in with. They were at best mediocre -- superb drummer, but lame lead singer who sometimes quit playing his acoustic guitar completely for a few lines, and songs that were already cliches 20 years ago. I left without sitting in, bored and unimpressed -- and I am *so* much better off with the bandleader who actually hired me! Hang in there and keep knocking on doors; something better will come along.

Nate