Another Job Interview
Published at 08:52 on 8 June 2018
I’m heading into the city for another job interview. We’ll see how well it works out. I would like to say I am cautiously optimistic but honestly I am not. This is not pessimism; it is realism. Everything I have learned in the last few years points to:
- Overall trends in the computing industry running precisely counter to my own personal needs for a work environment, and
- Persistent ageism, coupled with how I am not getting younger as the years pass, leading me to being rejected based on appearance alone.
At this stage, job interviews are something I am doing on a non-interference basis to the pursuit of other strategies for financially supporting myself. If I do manage to get lucky and land a job, experience has shown it will prove to be temporary anyhow, and extremely unlikely to last longer than a few years. It will be a means of kicking the can down the road and buying some time for me to complete the difficult process of securing a good alternate strategy to conventional tech work, nothing more.