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My first taste of corporate life
6:55 PM April 03, 2007

I had my interview with Citibank today. Freaky. X_X

Anyway, I told my mom that the interview was one hour earlier than it really was, and hence I was right on time. ^^; Tsk. Except, the interviewers were late. 0_0 So a bunch of us interviewees had to sit around and wait, and though this would normally have wracked my nerves and shredded them to, well, shreds and what not, a short game of Worms Forts took my mind away from it. XD

Plus I was waiting with a bunch of nice people. :) There was a lady who was already working and was going to get interviewed for a better job. She gave me a lot of tips and basically assured me that there was nothing to be nervous about. It was at least more pleasant to talk to someone instead of stressing myself out in a mind monologue. ^_^; Then, when she left, a Chinese girl from UST and a Chinese looking guy from Ateneo arrived and talked to me. We were all kind of nervous, but being nervous together helps. XD

So I was finally called in. Thank the Lord that nice people were called in to interview me. It lessened my nervousness. PLUS, one of them was from ARPT and had friends from UPRPT, including some people I personally know. We were obviously both overjoyed to talk about them. He was happily relieving the good old days, and I was happily thinking that this made everything less tense. :) I love UPRPT. Who knew such a thing would come in handy? :) As soon as he saw that I was an RPT member, he considerably lightened up. :) Joy joy joy. :)

I think they'll leave me with clerical and information systems work though. Oh well. Banks are pretty confidential about their operations after all, I guess.

But overall, it wasn't so bad. Sure I was awkward as always, but I think I answered okay. @_@ Well, and looking back, I wasn't so nervous during the interview. Probably because there was no pressure whatsoever. If I didn't get this internship, there's always the company with Stacy, and if all else fails, there's summer classes. :P I was able to enlist a good prof for PI. But then I don't have anyone to take it with. :(

And as usual, I'm almost half chickening out of the whole thing. But walking through the offices felt nice. I was thinking: "Ganito siguro pagnagtatrabaho na ako. Galing!"

come fly ~ gen