May 2022. This is a post from the beginning of the pandemic. It’s been sitting in my draft folder for more than two years now. I am publishing it without revising, so please excuse its first-draft form.
I’m pretty tired. 9 hours of work today. I might have a midday break and do some gardening and/or short bike ride.
I’ve also decided to block out an hour weekly to make phone calls. You know, the kind where you have to follow up on some boring personal thing. I hate making phone calls and at least there will be a regular time.
Also today I applied for a full-time remote copyediting position with very clear instructions about what the subject line should be: first name last name – position you are applying for.
The second after I applied, I got an auto responder that asked me to record a Zoom video, again following an explicit script. And also to answer 9 questions. So I recorded that video (I had to change my shirt) and set it off.
I then immediately received an auto responder with a link to a YouTube video explaining their recruiting process.
It was kind of cool. I’m still in the mood to jump through hoops.
And it was better than the copyediting job I applied for yesterday that had an “overwhelming response” and had us fill out a Google Survey. The last question was what was my score on an assessment I did not take. Poor form!