One Ringy-Dingy

I took the day off work today to go to a job interview. I know you will find this hard to believe, but working at the factory is incredibly boring. Not satisfying at all. I am trying to get a job as a telephone operator. I spent all day doing stupid tests. I could understand the spelling test, and the typing test, but some of them just didn't have anything to do with the job I was applying for. Like the number sequence test. It had strings of numbers, and you had to guess what would be the next number in the sequence. It was like: 2 14 8 21 19 27 14 ? . What does that have to do with giving out phone numbers? I could figure out four or five of the sequences, but the rest of them were just random numbers as far as I could tell. There was also a visual acuity test, where there were pictures of groups of cubes, and you had to decide what you would see if you were looking at the group from the top. Like that is ever going to matter to anybody. What kind of idiot decided we had to take these tests?

I still have to have an interview over the telephone. They said the phone interview was to make sure the interviewer wasn't influenced by my age or race or any physical handicaps I might have. I really hope I get this job. The pay is a little less, but I would have health insurance, including vision and dental. Right now I have nothing. They also have some kind of tuition payment policy. I don't know if they would pay 100% of any tuition, or just part of the tuition, or only if it's for certain classes or at certain places. I would like to go back to school. I am almost 40, and I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up. I would like to be a psychologist. Not a psychiatrist, because they have to go to years and years of medical school, and psychologists don't. I think I would make a good psychologist. I really listen when people talk, and try to understand what they mean. Sometimes what people say and what they think they are saying aren't the same thing, or what they hear isn't what was really said.