GalacticTurtle 🤠🇺🇸👽 on Nostr: I went to my fancy interview. It was a 4 hour long journey that involved talking to ...

I went to my fancy interview. It was a 4 hour long journey that involved talking to multiple people and taking tours of multiple buildings. The place kind of reminded me of a beehive. Totally open concept, every resource I could possibly think of within the context of event production was all there. Big money in every direction. It was very fascinating to witness. Despite having no uniform, almost everyone had some kind of company-branded merch/accessory on from sweatshirts, backpacks, coffee cups, or water bottles. I was told that once people work here, they tend to stay. And even if they leave, a decent chunk of them come back once they realize that nowhere else is like this.

I asked my friend there what they said about me once I left and apparently all she overheard was that they think I'm brilliant but they felt like I'd use this place perhaps as a stepping stone rather than a place to spend the rest of my life and that they place a lot of value in people seeing their company being the end all be all of life. This is not unlike what I've heard people say about places like Disney or Live Nation. It supports my hypothesis that these places prefer to pluck people right out of select college/graduate programs as interns then funnel them up through the system. At 32 years old with 14 years of experience as a freelancer, I did ask them why they were speaking to me because I don't fit the profile of their usual hires. They said they'd been working on changing their approach to new hires, seeing the value of bringing in people who are already professionals.

And as a professional, I'm not sure why the expectation would be that I walk into this facility and immediately decide that this place is my new religion or something. And honestly, that's why I've always been wary of getting a "real job." The industry big names don't want me because I'm not "company trained," but I'm really good at getting freelance work or temporary contracts because I can jump into unusual situations and make it work.

Still TBD if they'll extend an offer to me or not. But after a long phone conversation with my touring BFF who appparently runs into the same internal conflicts as me, we have decided that touring is simply addicting for anyone who is a roadie at heart. And walking away before you have to usually doesn't end well. We all had lists of people who ended up "relapsing" after getting a perfectly respectable job somewhere because it's just not the same.