2006-03-30 report on the trip
2006-03-30 report on the trip
Patrick is alive, but exhausted.
My apologizes for not writing, uhhh e-mailing sooner.
I was so exhausted!
On Wednesday, I arrived home at 2:30 AM in the morning and it took me an hour to go to sleep.
I was really exhausted and my sleep pattern was broken. I think that it will take several days to get fully back into a normal pattern.
I slept most of the rest of Wednesday day and got up for a few hours in the after-noon and early evening. A cat nap and them up late, late Wednesday night and into the early morning hours and then sleep until Thursday afternoon. When I was up, I was mostly somewhere between sleep walking and just moping around the house. This was definitely not the correct opportunity for higher brain functions like: talking to human beings or trying to remember how the telephone with all those numbers-on-it work.
The Interviews went well and I was a good performer. In the current speech, "I was pumped."
(Maybe this is why I am so exhausted. I was on a an "Adrenaline" high during parts of the interview and the flight home, maybe when it was finally over, I was in an adrenaline low-state or "crashing" from lack of adrenaline)
I was treated very nice, interviewed by a lot of people and as usual, in a week or two they will let me know.
I quickly established a good repore with the Audit Director, but after lunch she brought in a highly skilled contractor, who asked be a series of rapid fire questions. I knew what was happening and I tried to break the "interrogation" with my own questions, and to take control, but was generally unsuccessful. I tried to bring the answers back to their situation, but no luck.
For most of the Interviews, I would give my self an "A", but for the "interrogation" part I only earned a "B" at best.
As for the flight's back I am having problems with the words. Of course, their travel service made all the arrangements and did it the cheapest possible way. My time and inconvenience was not a factor at all. What would normally be a 2 or 3 hour direct flight became an endurance test. I left LAX at 6 pm and flew to PHOENIX, there the next flight was delayed for over an hour and we did not get into DFW until very late. I was very worried that I would miss the last "Super Shuttle" bus that evening/morning and that I would have to wait around the airport till the buses started again at 4 or 5 in the morning. (Did I mention that stress, especially repeated stress leads to exhaustion?) Anyway, I still had my Irish luck and got the last Super-Shuttle bus and got home about 2:30 in the morning. The rest of Wednesday and most of Thursday is a blur. Maybe it was a combination of stress and the damn medications that I am taking.
Anyway, to save a few dollars, two days (Wednesday and Thursday) were totally unproductive. If I were an employee, this is what is known as false "economy". My two days of work is far more important than a few dollars. For argument sake, say that I earn $ 25.00 an hour. (16 hours x $ 25.00 = $ 400.00). You have a lost of $ 400.00 vs. a few dollars in "saved" air fare.
I will write more soon.
Pat
Patrick is alive, but exhausted.
My apologizes for not writing, uhhh e-mailing sooner.
I was so exhausted!
On Wednesday, I arrived home at 2:30 AM in the morning and it took me an hour to go to sleep.
I was really exhausted and my sleep pattern was broken. I think that it will take several days to get fully back into a normal pattern.
I slept most of the rest of Wednesday day and got up for a few hours in the after-noon and early evening. A cat nap and them up late, late Wednesday night and into the early morning hours and then sleep until Thursday afternoon. When I was up, I was mostly somewhere between sleep walking and just moping around the house. This was definitely not the correct opportunity for higher brain functions like: talking to human beings or trying to remember how the telephone with all those numbers-on-it work.
The Interviews went well and I was a good performer. In the current speech, "I was pumped."
(Maybe this is why I am so exhausted. I was on a an "Adrenaline" high during parts of the interview and the flight home, maybe when it was finally over, I was in an adrenaline low-state or "crashing" from lack of adrenaline)
I was treated very nice, interviewed by a lot of people and as usual, in a week or two they will let me know.
I quickly established a good repore with the Audit Director, but after lunch she brought in a highly skilled contractor, who asked be a series of rapid fire questions. I knew what was happening and I tried to break the "interrogation" with my own questions, and to take control, but was generally unsuccessful. I tried to bring the answers back to their situation, but no luck.
For most of the Interviews, I would give my self an "A", but for the "interrogation" part I only earned a "B" at best.
As for the flight's back I am having problems with the words. Of course, their travel service made all the arrangements and did it the cheapest possible way. My time and inconvenience was not a factor at all. What would normally be a 2 or 3 hour direct flight became an endurance test. I left LAX at 6 pm and flew to PHOENIX, there the next flight was delayed for over an hour and we did not get into DFW until very late. I was very worried that I would miss the last "Super Shuttle" bus that evening/morning and that I would have to wait around the airport till the buses started again at 4 or 5 in the morning. (Did I mention that stress, especially repeated stress leads to exhaustion?) Anyway, I still had my Irish luck and got the last Super-Shuttle bus and got home about 2:30 in the morning. The rest of Wednesday and most of Thursday is a blur. Maybe it was a combination of stress and the damn medications that I am taking.
Anyway, to save a few dollars, two days (Wednesday and Thursday) were totally unproductive. If I were an employee, this is what is known as false "economy". My two days of work is far more important than a few dollars. For argument sake, say that I earn $ 25.00 an hour. (16 hours x $ 25.00 = $ 400.00). You have a lost of $ 400.00 vs. a few dollars in "saved" air fare.
I will write more soon.
Pat
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