Gravitas Victorious!

At last, Dear Reader(s), the herculean trial of finding a job has come to an end for our hero, i.e., myself. It took a strenuous month of job hunting through websites, location visits, dead-ends, and frustrations with the seemingly endless incompetence of the management of a certain bread company location, but at last Gravitas has found gainful employment.

To tell the tale of this triumphant hour, we must go back a week. Last week, I was going about my usual routine of doing some job hunting amidst my digital meanderings. I found a couple of new job openings through a job search site I've been using, including a Team Member position at Caribou Coffee (basically a Northern version of Starbucks, for all you that have not seen a Caribou in your area) and a Catering Driver position at Einstein Bros. Bagels. I believe I filled out these applications of Wednesday or Thursday of last week.

Finally, on Friday, I decided to visit a couple of stores I had applied at, just to make sure those locations were hiring and so that the managers might know me better and consider giving me an interview more seriously. I must attribute credit to Shannon for giving me the idea to do so.

Anyway, when I went in to Caribou, I spoke to the manager, and she said she had reviewed my application. She asked me to come in for an interview on Monday, 11 July. I went in for my interview full of a blend of optimism and sheer desperation. The interview went well, and together the manager and I achieved the milestone of figuring out that if I were one animal, I would be a dog! Yay!

Anyway. She told me I would hear back from her by Wednesday or Thursday, so the next couple of days were spent in nervous anticipation. Finally, yesterday I got an email Caribou offering me the job! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!

And that, dear Reader(s), is the tale of how I got a job at Caribou Coffee Company, Inc. Also, this job will be baller because (1) they're paying me $8/hour; (2) I get a free half pound of coffee or tea a week as an employee; and (3) I get 30% off of everything in the store!

Thank you, friends, for bearing with me through this over long process of finding a job and then telling you about how I found a job. It's been a blasty blast. Now, I've used far too many exclamation marks in this post, so I think that's it for today.

To quote the slogan of my new employer by way of a farewell: "Life is short. Stay awake for it."