Dear Diary,
Since I'm not in Europe anymore, it's time to become gainfully employed. And I am gainfully employed, i've been doing some catering here and there. Summer catering is much different than school year catering at Lewis and Clark. So far I have done a formal served dinner honoring about 90 nuns and another buffet for a bunch of chemistry geeks talking about brewing beer. i have concluded that nuns like to go boxes for just about unfinished morsel and chemistry people are geeks. (by the way i got a C in highschool chemistry and i'm still bitter)
So now I am an aspiring waitress. Since I'm 21 I am doing my best to skip the whole hostessing bit and move straight to server. It sucks being an aspiring waitress because people aren't even that impressed when you are a real waitress let alone just trying to be one. I have had 5 interviews at three restaurants so far and I have one more today. I am catching on to these big chain restaurant managers. They all ask the same questions and I am doing my best not to sound like a phony jerk. Because I can't stand phony jerks. And I honestly do like working in restaurants. But how do I convey this without sounding like someone who sucks? Sources tell me that at the first restaurant I applied to that the GM didn't hire me because I didn't look him in the eye. I don't remember not looking him in the eye. But he apparently just decided that this was a non negotiable. today at my interview i am probably going to over compensate by giving the GM the staredown the whole time and i won't get hired for being a creep. It's really rough being rejected by somewhere that you weren't that impressed with in the first place, and somewhere where you know for a fact that they hire idiots on a regular basis. But you know what? I'm over it. I'm so over it that I'm going to stop talking about it.
Love,
Diana