BFFs with a Job Interviewer

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Only if you do nothing, I guess, which but that's actually fine too because if you don't need to support me right now, that's nothing, I guess, and that's fine. It's you can it's, it's all good. I'm a little nervous energy because I just had a interview of sorts, a job interview sort of. I do podcast editing as you may realize. Hopefully, do.

Lemonproductions.ca is my business, and I do website build websites for people, and then I also edit podcasts. And if you've listened to all 216 previous ups 215 previous episodes of the show, you're well aware of that. But if this is your first one, that's what I do. This podcast in particular is just for a hobby. It's a thing I do to sort of exercise the podcasting muscles as it were, just to be creative and have an outlet for that kind of stuff.

But as part of my my business that I run, I edit podcasts for people, and there's some awesome folks that I get to opportunity of working with. And all of them, I've sort of stumbled into either because of friendships or just because of recommendation from a friend of a friend. And it wasn't really any sort of intense interview resume building process. It was just kinda like, hey, do you do this yet? What's your rates?

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Sounds good. Let's try that out.

And then a year and a half goes by and we're still doing it. So great. This particular show, there's a podcast that's sort of looking for I saw a tweet. They're looking for somebody to edit and produce and help be involved in their podcast. Remote work is fine.

It's not based in Saskatoon here. It's actually based in New York. Or the the company is there. They have a bunch of remote workers. And and so I just sent them an email saying, hey.

Yeah. I'll I'm curious, interested as well. And, and but as part of it, which is perfectly fine, they their HR person or maybe their HR person's assistant contacted me to arrange for an interview, and then their HR person, got in touch with me, and we chatted on the phone earlier today. And, not just HR person, guess, the managing partner. So just sort of titles correct in case because that's the thing when you put stuff out in the Internet, you never know who might listen in.

So back in the day when I the last time I applied for a job, Twitter wasn't really a thing and, Facebook definitely was maybe just colleges only. And employers certainly were definitely not savvy to the idea that you'd look someone up online as part of the interviewing process. These days, I hope if you're running a business or you're doing any sort of hiring, you're well aware that you can pretty much find out anything you want about any potential employee, hire, contractor, whatever. The good, the bad, the ugly, all that stuff is out there to be found if you so desire. Check out google.com and type their name in, and you'll find stuff.

But, but yeah. So last time I applied for any sort of job in any real capacity, that wasn't really a thing. I I would put stuff on there like I because I had websites and I was on online, but I knew that, most people weren't at all interested or savvy to that kind of idea, at that time. So maybe Twitter was a thing the last time I applied for a job, but, it just barely and, like, not a thing where you'd know to check up on what people were saying as a way to figure out if they're a racist idiots or a really smart person or just a guy who cracks sarcastic tweets, when he's bored or lonely or sad or whatever. But I digress.

This process after the phone call earlier this morning, I was like, this is I feel like this nervous bundle of energy. And so I was thinking like almost felt like what I would imagine. I've never I don't think I've ever smoked a cigarette. I've maybe had like a cigar cig I've had I smoked cigars. I've, but I don't think I've ever actually smoked a cigarette.

But I was like, this is probably what people who smoke sometimes feel like is like you just need a thing to do after the thing is done so that you can like move on or whatever mentally. But, because it's I enjoy the conversation. It feels like it went really well. Nice person to talk to, back and forth, interesting conversation about podcasting and about how I work and what they're doing and what they want. And I generally take the approach of like, this is who I am, put myself out there, hard on the sleeve kind of thing in these kinds of processes.

And, but I've, as obvious obviously can happen, you don't always just because you do that doesn't guarantee you'll get a job. And so I've had jobs. And, like, this happens with with my web design world too when I work with clients is put yourself out there, say, like, I'd really love the opportunity to work with you on this thing. There's a huge amount of potential I think in what you have, what you're doing, what you're trying to build, you know, whatever it happens to be, and I would love to work with you and make you a lot of money potentially, which hopefully would allow for you to pay me to do this kind of stuff. But it isn't always received or there's there isn't always there's someone else who has a better, better heart on their sleeve or a better a lower price maybe or a better vision for what they want.

All, you know, multitudes of factors, but it can be kind of soul crushing and, just debilitating to, like, constantly having to sell yourself. And that's part of running a business with especially a client based business. You're I'm selling me. I'm not just selling a a box that I have made already. I'm selling literally my abilities, my, or inabilities or my my capabilities of what I think I can do for somebody, on a daily or weekly or however often kind of basis.

And so it's a bit like a job interview every time, but it feels this definitely feels different, because it's work that would be fun, interesting. It'd be a potentially a bigger name client to work with, some exposure that way. But also more importantly, just like a fun project to work on that, I think has potential to grow for them, which is why they're trying to hire somebody to help with the podcast editing, obviously. But also just, an interesting project, interesting people to work with, different people, people I don't I don't know that many New Yorkers on a on a name basis or whatever, first name basis. And so, I'm trying to wrack my brain of people I actually do know, in New York that I don't think of as being in New York because they're just on the Internet.

But anyways, that's what this episode is all about is basically just getting a whole bunch of thoughts out of my brain because I sort of had some bounce around nervous energy and, into your ears. Now you can bounce around with them maybe or not, move on to the next podcast. But, yeah, it's it's interesting. I've I'm trying to like there's a bit of a process of well, now that I've put together because they wanted a resume, they wanted the whole kind of shebang of of job applications. I'm thinking, well, maybe I should just leap off this opportunity and just look for other test the waters of other job opportunities that are out there while I'm in this mode.

Not stopping what I'm doing with the client work, on the web or podcasting especially, But just yeah. Since I put all this work into this stuff, why not keep going and put myself through this more? But then I think, do I really want this feeling every couple days of, potential rejection or feeling like the hardest part I think is like when you feel like the conversation interview goes really well and you're like, wow, they think I'm there. I'm we're pretty much like best friends now. Me and this, you know, HR or interviewer person, we're pretty much best friends and we have like this unique shared vision for what's gonna happen or whatever.

And then to get an email two days later, like, sorry, we've we've decided to go somewhere else. And and then he's like, why do what? Why how did that happen? How I thought we had this shared thing, shared experience that we're gonna work on together. So, anyway, that's where I'm at.

If you know of anybody who's looking for a podcast editor, especially if they don't wanna go through the whole job job application process, I'd love to hear from them or get me in touch with them. But even if they do, I've got everything already. So I digress again. Thank you for listening to this episode. I hope you're having a interesting fall, and, your gourds are good and your pumpkin spices are spicy.

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