The Part-Time Grant Writing Job

I just got off the phone with a company who is hiring for a part time grant-writer! Woo!

I actually applied to this company almost a year ago for a full-time grant writing position and had an in person interview.  I thought it went really well, minus a few of my own random diarrhea of the mouth regrets.  After the interview, they emailed me a week or so later to tell me that they decided to hire a candidate with more experience.  When I saw the post a few days ago for the part-time position at this same company, I was a little apprehensive in applying.  I felt like they'd look at my application and say, "Ugh.  The no experience girl again? Pft" [tosses application in a wired trash bin].  My guy was the one who convinced me to apply.  "It's part-time," he said, "so I'm sure it is more of an entry level position."  I had my doubts, but the guy was right!

It was a phone interview, but they didn't ask many questions about myself because they said they remembered me from last time.  I think that's a good thing... I hope.  The two interviewers mostly just explained the position to me in deeper detail.  I did mention that I started blogging (anything helps, right?) and that I have been teaching myself other programs to expand my skills for the workforce.

I should take this time to mention that yesterday my phone had a freak out moment while I was talking on the phone to a friend.  It went all zombie-monster and suddenly all I could hear was my friend growling that she wanted to eat my brains. The sound was a mix between television static and a starving monster.  The sound wouldn't stop, so I was forced to hang up on my friend and continue our conversation through Facebook message.

Of course the monster sound would happen on my phone interview.  Of course it would. I was trying to sound upbeat and happy as I'm answering the interviewer's questions, so I'm hoping they are picturing me on the other line like this:

  But because of the crazy monster sound that ensued, they may have pictured me instead like this:

The good part is that the sound happened literally at the end of the phone call. They said "Well, thank you so much for accommodating this spur of the moment call, Amber."  And I said, "Yes! Thank you so much for thinking of me and including me in your interviewing process!"  And they said, "GAAAAKurrrrrrBLeerrrrrrgiwanttoeatyourbrainskurrrrrrr." And I said, "Ha ha ha, okay great, hope to hear from you soon, bye bye."

I'm not sure how I could have changed the outcome to this one...  Maybe I should have said something like, "I'm sorry! My phone is acting up and I can't hear you!  I'll have to let you go!  I hope to hear from you soon!" .... yep.  That sounds way better than what I did.

We will see how this one pans out.