Change Can Be Healthy, Right?

Austin Huston
Sep 17, 2014
2 min read

& I have had a looooot of change in the past few months.

Moved out of our first home in Virginia.

Long distance marriage for two months.

Left my friends, school, workplace, & not to mention the STATE of VA.

Drove across country from VAtoWA (with my best friend).

Moved into a new home in my old home town.

Set up, decorating, cleaning,.. for a month straight.

& now it's time to start a new job.

Before I get all optimistic about new beginnings & new adventures & blah blah blah... Let me just explain that I HATE job hunting. Who doesn't though?

I am only 22, I know. But I have been working since I was 13.

Most of the jobs I've had have been amazing & I have made life long friends through them.

But most of all, I have stuck with them for long periods of time. Mostly because I hate the hunt.

Currently in my life I am unsure of where I want to go with a job before I go to school for a career.

Nanny life? Shoe fit specialist (again)? Barista (again)? Waitress? Therapy Tech?

Sigh.

Mostly, I HATE interviews.

Granted, 90% of the time interviews turn out fine & the anticipation is worse than the actual interview.

But I still hate them.

I hate the nerves I get leading up to them

I hate the awkward period where you talk to an employee to get the manager & waiting.

I hate that "what are your greatest strengths & weaknesses" question.

...Seriously... We're all trained to say something like "I'm too much of a perfectionist" which is really just saying "I am perfect & have no weaknesses." Do interviewers actually believe that is your greatest weakness? Of course it's not your lack of drive or your constant tardiness. (Not everyone, but you know those people are in every workplace to some extreme or another).

But it is inevitable to experience job interviews when you've got bills to pay!

So the job search is on.

& I have one very good tip for any of you who may need to ever go through any type of interview & make a good impression ever again (that should be just about everyone): smile.

Most of us are nervous at least to an extent for job interviews & those nerves tend to make us sit there & tense up & think hard about questions & think about our responses... & frown.

There is a chronic deformity that is sweeping the world calld RBF (Resting Bitch Face).

Not everyone posseses this deformity, but even those who don't, tend to carry this look when thinking really hard about a question.

The key to defeating this is to smile. Smile when you're talking. Smile when you're thinking. Smile when you meet people. Smile when you're leaving.