First week of Citalopram

[suzannacorfu]

Good luck for tomorrow Shaun!!!

[Cazza 7]

Hi Raindog,

i am on cit as well 1st week well or 3 yuch lost loads of weight i started them in may,
i am feeling loads better now my health anxiety started again after i was made redundant ..last april..on the dole for 6 months ..money worries etc

Got a job now still trying to catch up financially
But meds helping .
Keep strong

Cazza 7 x

[Raindog]

Hi Cazza,
Good to hear that you're on the mend, it does make a difference when the anxiety starts diminishing. Welcome to NMP, hope it helps you get through any rough patches you might go through.

On with a bit more of Week 7

Friday day 45. I think this is the day most people want to hear about, my job interview. I spent the morning just lazing around, relaxing before the interview in the afternoon and felt pretty confident heading up there.

They had called 3 of us in for a group interview and it seemed like we were competing for the same role, but we'll see how that turns out as I have the suspicion that they may want to take all 3 of us on and are testing to see how we work together since one part of the interview was a group task.

We had to build a tower out of paper and were given a short brief. We could purchase different materials using fake money with the prices on the brief. We took a little while to get started but eventually got a sort of tower built that stood up of it's own accord and was still standing quite some time later, which impressed the bosses.

The whole interview was around 2.5 hours and went pretty well overall. They said they'd let us know at the start of the week, so shouldn't have that much longer to wait really. I got home and just wanted to relax so I just watched some TV.

Saturday day 46 and Sunday day 47.
Just enjoying a couple of lazy days before, hopefully, I hear that I've got this job. I should have posted before now as people have been asking whether I got the job or not but I was feeling lazy so sue me :P

Feeling in a pretty good mood over the weekend, I'm not worrying about the result of the job interview, not getting anxious, just waiting to see, whichever way it goes really.

Hope everyone is doing well, if not I hope you are soon.

Better days people
Shaun

[YvonneBelle]

We had to build a tower out of paper and were given a short brief.

Hi Shaun, it's no wonder you've been feeling lazy this weekend! The build up to the interview and having to work with two strangers in a stressful situation is no small accomplishment. I bet you were relieved once it was all over!

I've done exactly the same type of exercise, but with straws.

There really isn't anything you can do in this type of situation except be yourself because you can't second guess what personal attributes they are looking for. They might be looking for a leader but they might not be. They might be looking for a team player - but then again, they might be looking for someone with very strong negotiation skills. How you tackle and approach something with a short time scale is also very telling. Being respectful of others opinions or being more measured might have been something else they wanted rather than someone who approaches things like a bull at a gate. Plus you know you are being observed. All very stressful! Sounds like it went well though, so fingers crossed.

Even if you don't get it, it probably just means there is something even better out there for you.

All you can do now is relaaaaax!

Best of luck.

Yvonne

[Raindog]

To be honest it wasn't that stressful really, I had to do similar things at Uni a few years back with people I'd just met, in some ways I can deal with that easily enough, and we all got on well enough. We had a bit of a laugh doing it to be honest so it felt more fun than anything.

I often find myself being put in leadership positions so pulling the other two together and consolidating their ideas wasn't a big issue for me, and when the boss pointed out that we didn't do much of a plan to design the tower I simply pointed out 'well considering we've done such a good job without one, think what we could do with a planned design'

I've got a bit of a summer cold this morning, just a stuffed up nose really, a mild annoyance but no big deal. I'm not one of those that starts having 'man flu' the moment I get a blocked nose or whatever, but it's a good excuse to sit and watch some afternoon movies so I don't go spreading it about too much :P

Better days
Shaun

[YvonneBelle]

and when the boss pointed out that we didn't do much of a plan to design the tower I simply pointed out 'well considering we've done such a good job without one, think what we could do with a planned design'

Haha, good answer!! lol

You sound a bit like me in that I very rarely get stressed at interviews. I think it must be all the practice I've had over the years. I've had the good, the bad, and well... some of the others.

Sounds to me like you don't have much to worry about!

Hope the cold gets better soon...

[Raindog]

It was just a morning thing I think, after I went for a short walk my nose cleared up. It might have been a bit of hayfever too, I sometimes get a touch of it when the pollen is high.

Like I said, I can think on my feet, and I read Machiavelli's The Prince at an early age, I know how to put a spin on things to my advantage :P

Shaun

[Raindog]

Week 8, Tuesday day 51.
Got a letter from the company I went for the interview with on Friday. I didn't get the job unfortunately so just have to keep looking I guess. Other opportunities are available for me to look at so it's not all bad.

I'm going on a ghost hunt on Wednesday evening. I'll be joining the paranormal investigators from Northern Ghost Investigations at a secret location in the north east to record an investigation they're carrying out in the hopes that we can get a podcast out of it for them. That means I'll be up til the early hours of the morning Thursday so better get plenty of sleep tonight.

So I didn't get the job I wanted but I do get to sit about with a bunch of paranormal investigators in an empty building to hunt for signs of haunting or some such

Can't complain. Better days people
Shaun

[jaded jean]

Shaun you must let us know how you get on . This is an area that I am really interested in.This just sounds so cool lol! I am off to a clairvoyant evening next week. I have quite a few pictures of orbs but there is speculation as to whether it is due to using a digital camera but I dont care.
Jean

[Oddfish]

Shame about the job...oh well, you win some, you lose some. Good experience for anything else that might come up, though . Your ghost-hunting exploits sound like a hoot. Is this for your radio stuff? Can anybody volunteer to do this kind of thing? Sounds like fun...I'm going a bit volunteering crazy at the mo! lol