04-10-2006, 05:38 PM | #21 | |
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In one way, I guess it's good not to have to leave work to do those things. On the other hand, do you really want to work such long hours that you eat all your meals there? |
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04-10-2006, 07:43 PM | #22 | |
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04-11-2006, 05:50 AM | #23 | |
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good luck and send a thank you / follow up letter to them in due course! but don't gain twenty something lbs if you really start working there!
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04-11-2006, 07:00 AM | #24 | |
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Then all they need is a few bars and restaurants and you could even socialise there. No reason to leave... at all! |
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04-11-2006, 07:30 AM | #25 |
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I visited Eli Lilly a few years back and I don't think they gave you meals but they had everything else on the premises - salon, gym, daycare, post office. It was like a small city.
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04-11-2006, 07:37 AM | #26 | |
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04-11-2006, 08:10 AM | #27 | |
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04-17-2006, 04:40 PM | #28 |
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Just a small update. You were all right I did pass the phone screening interview, although it felt like I really bombed it. I guess I did something right. Thanks all for believing in me, when I doubted myself.
Anyway, I had an onsite interview with them today, and I think I did fairly good. I did not ace it, and I sumbled on some questions, but at least I have a chance of getting an offer. It's definitely much better than I felt I would do before the interview. Man if I get it, it'll be the most awesome thing that happened to me in the last few years, and I will give everyone here a huuuuuuuuuuge (((((((((((((((()))))))))))))). Maybe I can slip some of you to have some of that gourmet food Crossing my fingers and waiting... Will keep you updated.
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04-17-2006, 05:14 PM | #29 | |
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04-17-2006, 05:18 PM | #30 |
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W00t!!
Congrats so far. Save some leftovers for me - I'll be by on Saturday mornings to pick them up. |
04-17-2006, 07:36 PM | #31 |
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Congrats, Soccsie!
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04-17-2006, 07:45 PM | #32 |
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Conga Rats (with Rat-tles; Oh, I'm killing myself ) , SoccsieDudsie!
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04-17-2006, 08:15 PM | #33 |
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Phone interviews are scary, especially because you can't see the person and therefore can't gauge their reactions all that well. It's even worse if you're like me and get really really nervous on the phone in general.
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04-18-2006, 09:22 AM | #34 | |
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04-18-2006, 09:31 AM | #35 |
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Congratulations, SoccerDude .
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04-18-2006, 10:31 AM | #36 |
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Oh man I so desperately want to go to the San Francisco Bay Area. Am I completely mistaken that the entire cool adventuregaming community is located there, and I mean the fans, the companies, the geniuses, the greatest minds of the US?
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04-18-2006, 09:18 PM | #37 |
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I eventually want to live in San Francisco as a writer and artist, but I'm not sure when in the future that will be.
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04-19-2006, 12:02 AM | #40 |
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Who, me? I'm here in the very modest and petite country of the Netherlands, which apparantly is the other hotbed of the adventuregaming community for some reason here
But really, I'm starting to get this weird craving to move to 'Frisco. As in a dream I've been summoned. If you build it, he will come. Is that weird? One day I'll take a week-long vacation there, and I hope I'll fall in love with the city, and then maybe I'll just go and live there. Is that a weird dream to have when you've never even been there?
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