Life update - Sickness, Job stuff, jury duty

It's been several days since I've posted, but I have a few excuses.

First, I've been sick the past few days so I've spent a fair amount of time in bed.

Second, I was in jury duty on Wednesday and in jury duty, you're not supposed to blog or tweet or anything like that.  You're not even supposed to have a cell phone but lots of people brought theirs anyway.  After jury duty on wednesday, I went straight to bed.

Third, I had a half day interview with a large medical device company in the area.  (Go ahead and guess which one, you're likely to be right.)  I basically begged the jury duty people to let me out for the morning.  So I guess if you're ever trying to get out of jury duty for a day, that's something you could try.

I've learned over the years that I'm not very good at predicting whether or not the interview went well.  This interview went OK I think, but it was almost all behavioral.  This is when they ask you garbage questions like "Tell me about a time when there was conflict at work...  Tell me about a time when you achieved a goal... blah blah blah."  In the book Sway, the authors go into this whole thing on why interviews don't work.  But I do think this would be a good opportunity for me, but we'll see what they think.  What sucked is that there were so many behavioral questions, it was difficult to not reuse the situations that I've already prepared for.  you know?

And then after the interview, I checked my messages and I got calls from two other companies.  I also got a call from another company wednesday and I'll have a phone interview next week.  So things are looking up I guess.

Fortunately for me, my jury duty obligation is over so I have all day to recover and get ready for tomorrow's Halloween party.  I'm a little disappointed though that I didn't get picked; it would have been an interesting experience.  OK.  More posts to come...