I was running busy, and that involved waking up before dawn. Since I was ‘lamaw’ boy the past year, the waking-up-early part was hard. I was contacted by the 3i headhunters in Makati and they were looking for fresh graduates to refer to Thomson Reuters for the content editor position. So I hustled over to 3i, saw Mr. Gremil Naz there, though he didn’t see me, and then got briefly interviewed.
The 3i guy who interviewed me (who, by the way asked me about my thesis so suddenly I was stunned into a “say-what?” moment) then scheduled me for an exam at the Reuters office at McKinley Hill in Taguig the following day. To make the story short, I got to Reuters about fifteen minutes late, made a small stupid slip during the exam and was asked to leave. The HR told me they’d call me if I got a positive feedback. Yeah, right.
The small mistake was actually my fault; but that didn’t mean I have to like it.
It all happened so fast that by the time Reuters’ door slammed shut behind me I was still thinking, “WTF?” I chewed the entire thing over on the bus ride home; beating myself up, defending myself at the same time, allowing myself some much-deserved self-pity and then deciding to get over it.
Not so easy. I wasn’t over it until the next day, when I could finally laugh about it without the accompanying bitterness. (A good thing God decided to give me something else because fifteen minutes after arriving home that Friday, I got a call from SENCOR in Makati about an exam for the copy editor position. I was due Monday.) :D
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