Okay, I admit it: I'm a nerd. That's on top of being ridiculously short and being a girl. (Er, woman). Me trying to fit in is like asking a two year old to not make a mess. It just doesn't happen all that often. And when it does, it usually has more to do with luck than anything else.
I'm the type of person whose shelf is filled with sf/fantasy books (maybe a mystery or two) and a lot of non-fiction books on whatever currently strikes my fancy. I'm the type of person who surfs the internet to learn...not to play games on Kongregate. I'm the type of person who really does want to know programming languages, how to write CSS for my web page, and how to speak five foreign languages. In a word...I'm not very cool.
I bring this up because I had a job interview this week. Well, it was more of an open house, so I'm not sure that it was an interview proper. But it involved asking me a lot of questions I didn't know how to answer and learning a bit about a really cool company. I'm serious - the company was cool. The people there were really cool....the front desk guy was wearing a bowtie for crying out loud! So we'll see how that one goes. I'm a bit disappointed in myself because I'm not all caught up with my studying for the A+ cert, so I don't know all that I need to know. Which bugs me. But I will, soon. I'm studying like mad.
So, back to the original point: I'm a nerd. I'm an ENTP. I'm not sure I can change any of that about me. My only saving grace is to have enough knowledge to make it so that my quirkiness doesn't matter.
Or, maybe I just need to find the right place to work at. Like my dad said about his lab, "The best indicator for success is whether they laughed at a Larson cartoon." heheh.
