After Months of Dead Ends...

Well today I officially joined the real world and got my first full time job! I'm still in school until May, but I only have classes two days a week so I have had a lot of free time since October because I have been job hunting. Well a couple of weeks ago I applied for a job with Ohio Valley Bank that I had heard about through a friend. I was called in a couple of days later for an informal interview with a really nice lady named Marilyn in the HR department. That interview went really well, she liked me and said she would pass my application and her notes along to the managers in charge of hiring. She told me it would be a long shot because I can only work 4 days a week (because I coach club volleyball on Sundays as well as going to school). But she told me if this didn't work out now, to give her a call a couple of weeks before graduation and she would see what was open. Well needless to say, I wasn't expecting to hear anything else. 2 days later, I get a call about setting up a formal interview with the 2 branch managers that were in charge of hiring. I still figured it was a long shot even though they seemed to really like me too. So this past Wednesday I get called in to take a survey, afterwards I am sitting with another lady from HR talking about my interviews and the survey and such when I say something about the job being a long shot for me to get. The lady gives me a strange look and says, "No, the managers have recommended you for the job and we will work around your school schedule." (Which by the way, the managers told me they don't really work around school schedules) I was pretty much shocked! She said we are willing to make you a verbal offer, contingent on you passing a drug test. (I knew at this point I was getting the job.) So this morning I got the call, I start my orientation on Monday and training the week after!! I'm really excited, it's the first job I have had that will pay more than minimum wage and it has vacation and sick time! Of course, this also means I will be working 32 to 40 hours in the 4 days I am available and for the next 2 months I won't have a day off, but oh well....I have a JOB!!!!! Real world here I come! (I'll regret that statement someday I'm sure)