I interviewed for a Training Coordinator job early last week and completely blew it. They had a long list of “What’s your biggest weakness?” cheeseball type interview questions — which I absolutely hate — and I was coming across like such a goober that I actually paused and took a private moment with myself at one point when I smiled and thought “Fuck it, just get through the next 15 questions and it’ll be over. You’ve already blown it, just coast through the rest of it now and quit stressing.”

Shockingly, they called later saying they wanted me to come back to do a 30 minute mock training session so they can see me in front of a class.

So I went in today to do the mock session. I stayed up late last night going over the material, then got very little sleep since I kept waking up every 15 minutes all night long, got up early, shaved, showered, put on a nice ironed shirt and pair of pants, fought freeway traffic to get there, and finally arrived at the training room to find no one there to meet me. I was a little early, so I poked around for a few minutes and worked on getting the PCs all up and running and started installing the work files needed for the session. And when I was finished, still nobody was there to meet me.

Because, as it turns out, my mock session is scheduled for next Wednesday.

Of all that wasted effort leading to that bonehead moment, I resent the shaving the most. I could have waited another day before I had to do that.