Professional Interviews
 

HOLY CRAP
I'm so freakin' nervous.
For one of my classes for my major they are having me conduct a practitioner interview where we contact and interview a professional in the field where we would like to see ourselves in the future.
OF COURSE I procrastinated until NOW and it's due Wednesday at 8am and I have this afternoon and tomorrow to call the pros I emailed to ask for interviews. Luckily most of the executive staff at the UNITED CENTER!!!! (where the Chicago Bulls play) agreed to give me an interview and I have no time so I have to call them now!
Just some dumb college student talking to the Snr. Vice Prez of Operations of the United Center, a nationally known sports and entertainment palace? :eek2:

My job is writing for travel websites, so I have to call and interview people for articles all the time. I was nervous at first, but it turns out that people love to talk about themselves and their work -- it gives them a break from actually working, too. Now it's probably my favorite part of my job.

During your interview, just bust out with "I wanna ƒuuuck you..." . . . works every time.

You really need attention. It's quite sad.

I've found that if you lightheartedly make it clear that this is how you see yourself in the situation, they will appreciate your humbleness and be more open with you. I've gotten away with a ton of things by just adding a (genuine, not sarcastic) "But I'm just some kid, what do I know, right?" to the end.

Yeah just conducted two interviews, one with the Biz Head of the UC and the other with the Operations Head.

They went pretty well. Learned a lotta stuff. Really intimidated me, told me to get more involved with bizniz. But I have no interest in bizniz. ::tears::
We'll see what happens, I guess. Give it 10 years or so. :P

It's sad, quite sad? Really? It makes you sad? I make you sad?

don't feel bad. I make him cranky. and pedantic. and a little pissy.

The most immature grown men ever. One of them even has a family, how did that happen? I hope there aren't more of you all out there. srsly. cocks. you all don't even have a motive for being so child like, you just are naturally. It's actually, disgusting. But I guess the internet is where people get to let loose and become whoever they dreamt of being while hiding behind the comfort of a monitor thousands of miles away from the people they choose to pick on. What a buncha losers.

YOu two are just a pair of big meanies!

OK, here's the deal... When you're young, being mature is cool. When yer ...well.. a little bit older than that, being immature is cool. Of course some people never mature enough to be immature. and then it's hard to tell.

but basically I'd say LJ was at least telling the truth about how he makes you feel/act....

...oh and having a family makes immature fun too. And almost necessary. compulsory in some cases. bags I get to beat up on you next.....

To define maturity as a set of behavioral constraints constitutes a step backwards in development. If advancement was measured by failure to take action, or by taking only a narrow and predetermined course of action, then veteran athletes would be ineffective and predictable.

yo' mama, old man :p

(and be reminiscent of the necessity of consuming a phallus)

I forgot to eat a dick!

crackwhorechronkite, we BOTH have kids. and wives. one of us has tattoos. one of us has size 13 shoes. immature? whatevaz!

look, plick. I am mature when i'm disclosing a contract. I'm mature when I'm cajoling a bank into approving a loan. I'm mature when I'm teaching my 9 yr old son how to throw a football or dive into a pool.

When I'm making fun of a racist, sexist, materialistic bungsniffing anchor like you, I'm completely childish and immature. ya got me. is this victory for you in some way? You still take the heat like nobody.....except maybe drax.

:corn:

Nothing to see here. The "bigger" man has walked away.

Nothing to see here. The "bigger" man has walked away.
http://www.javierzanetti.net/Handoyo...20Olympics.jpg

Fucking hell Fresh.

I cant believe you went from *the bigger man has walked away*, to that.

Yes, I see its a joke...but you have to learn *timing*...you totally fucked yourself there buddy.

oh! ha ha ha ha I've never seen that before! I'm new on the internets!

When I was in school, I interviewed one of the partners of a huge NY architectural firm for a project--very very intimidating. You're lucky yours went well; the guy I had to talk to was a pompous jerk. I was so nervous, that I pushed the wrong button on my tape recorder, and ended up with nothing. I had to transcribe the whole thing by memory after I realized what I did.

I always liked the retarded line for arguing on the internet. It's pretty funny.

I think Ducks is right though, you should have left out the pic. Someone posted it somewhere else just a couple of weeks ago.

give you 3 guesses who that was, and who it was directed at. ok, ill just tell you. it was freshnesscocklick to me. surprised?

It's cause you're retarded Jimbo. :)

Oh yeah, that was a joke btw...just in case you didn't realize I'm taking the piss out of you. Of course, you'd be fine with that right?

i AM in the piss gang. actually, i might be the captain this week.

I can imagine you would be.

Anywho, I think I'm going to go down the hard path to minor in business. From my interviews, both execs emphasized the importance of communication, flexiblity and business. Ugh. Personally I have no interest in business, but those dudes made it near to the top of a sports administration branch.

There's no guarantee I will even make it into the minor, U of I is like the #5 biz school in the US (I believe)! But since I'm concurrently writing my interview assignment I feel enlightened and mostly decided to understand business and enroll in the related classes.

Biz, the necessary evil
 

I am, and always will be a engineer (geek) of the inventive type. I got culled from the herd early in my career and sent to MBA boot camp as a future technical manager and business leader. It was a very exclusive opportunity and turning it down would have been career limiting...so I went.

And came back, and said thanks for the fascinating insight into the (corporate) ruling class, I want to stay a geek, and I'm too good at it for you to turn me down. And they turned me into a (geek) leader anyway. bastards.

Fresh, biz makes the world go round. you can ignore it, and limit your potential, or you can surf it and get some, most or maybe all that you want. There are many days (just read the old farts postings) when you wish you were doing anything else. price you pay.

The most valuable biz school courses for me:

Organizational behavior. People are a pain in the ass, and a joy, and much harder to manage and work with than inanimate objects. Most of what they do and how they behave in groups is not new, and coping mechanisms are available.

Economics. The understanding of investment and return, and markets. How to figure cost, value, payoff, and other criteria for making decisions that involve tradeoffs on managing and investing resources (time, money, people, what's left of your stash, things like that)

Finance. How to figure the value of money, rate of return, time value, etc. How money moves around organizations and banks. This is very important, cause just about anything you want to accomplish working for a bizness requires either temporary or long term use of their money, and they'll want to know how much more they get back before they let you use it. It's good to know how they keep track of it, and how much it costs them to borrow it, or "loan" it you as opposed to renovating the CEO's private bathroom, stuff like that.

A specialty...you'll start at or near the bottom in the organization, in other words, smack dab in the middle of whatever it is they do to make money, you won't get to the level where it's abstract for a while. Be knowledgeable, or better, a bit experienced, at what is important to them. the biz courses will help you make sense of the strange terrain faster, and help you anticipate what they might be interested in you doing.

this is a long winded way of saying, you might not be interested in it, but you can exploit it to help you get what you want, and most of the knowledge you gain is very useful in your personal life, unless you can avoid the economy entirely, like with a life prison sentence.

how'd I get up on this soapbox?

Dude steambender you're awesome. Thanks man. This is why I post here man, for people like you.