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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1995)
Work It On Out: The Interview Suit ttmNiny ■„ lib bn geut. hr fled m the end of T ibr gnu <!h liegn footp.nb. for ibn vat the fttri of the esrduoui teal I !eny journey He bod mode it nut. ut tony Lnt, out of the tteihbervuj (it ad bn nit i Retail, at bn left, the Jeyrndnn cbastm of If erh tun ned, treirtinyiy utupdnnabtf, tmpanibtr to (ton Ihhii Jahland. as yet unpublished I here nr hundreds of unfitsished JubLtnJ ulvtl) lure manuscripts More*! in mv closet Although I dream of publishing, 1 dire r»ol retrieve them from their tnurkv lair l or in the hac k ol ins tlosct dwells a creature Damned with t»u arms, two tail* and a 42 inch long cut, it's hot. v rate he. was too 'VI. and I've yet to tmd a tie that matches it' plantains Hie creature is mv suit |ai Let. the woolly hulls I don time ami time igain to tourney aero" the cits in search ol a job Ihi' ' no ordinary laeLet it ha' somehow alisorlicd the "white lio” I’ve told while interviewing and has rsolscd into a w rctc hr<l hie ot ii\ ow n Hcc tuning tit) utility licit, mv magic lasso and my tort re" ol solitude. the )aikrt makes the proper lire! tmpre'Mon' and jettisons mv true |ierv»lia from the gtase war room ot the interview Vs imwlt. 1 am not charming enough I haven't enough espenent r the cuit Lim>uv tlsi\ and nuke' all the right moves for me li shakes hands or, rather, ferret?* a *!ccve umriril to proffer the firm h.mdsluke tlut I, in ins generational lac k ol wr, r« fa tie. mas have forgotten It irritates mv tin k enough to prompt a grimace that, ses, well, sort ot looks like a “tan do” gun to the working world N es, I am the jacket** thrall, and, oh, the lies tt makes me tell, "hrs, I oil do that .* h is, vis, ses Neser sas no. It ;s a coat ol smarms now 1, the soon to be college grad, humhls bowing low to the employment lord, tall |» intent at hts fret as if to sav, "1 am sorts hsr having no experience.” Mas. the employment overlord rates not about ms Iccble eat uv-s. Indred, with June hearing down on me like a dried up |>cn on used c arbon paper, the |a» krt is mm StoM Macoon NcxthMStcm U mg out n> hang oft my lot k like ««nt symbiont lrcd mg ('HI Kl**) off the ihtmumb of "ldicnirs” i take m dcscnhmg my heath foil qualifications binding a job is a crusade, a jitlgnniage, a religious rite ot passagt It's (hr "first Holy ( ommutmg” to adult life Our futures depend on tins lirst job or so were led to believe just as four years ago wt wen let I to believe that our (our parents’) school of choice woultl make a huge dent in the S mph huilipct on the sulxt impact of life Not quite, hut the accident Minis to be appioat hmg heatl on. it slithers toward us in the serpentine sha|>c ol unemployment lines It se-etns strangely appropriate tfiat the laikct ol lies hanging in my closet kce|*s me from bet timing who I want to be 1 hose “full mettle” tat kets we doff aftet the tntrt view timid i>e ihmUtd along with those cheat sheets of a tesumt That would stiow them MavU then I could do what I ve wantcif to do all along gti into inv closet, grah those Uncs in the back anti publish im adventures ot Jobiitsd t* Strut Magnon. \utlhrdtlrtn \cu's. Northeastern l Stampede! Willow Cook, California Aggla, U. of Callfortiia, Davis Sc Ww* cat >x Qrkl yojt q !co«iMa<es QUqtttmg ^ i»V nq ir, 'fpj* wfc _0»artirti»? /?X . . ! ^tvJ ,!! - r»ne, Wn}'— 1, hit*** r*f r>u a Ait tCW a ■J& IdWfcrt: *u Poll Question What is your favorite typo of music and band? [800] 68-BANDS 682-2637 Ext. 62 ('la i .i icti/ Metaf AL+ERNA+IVf T'ap AE NEW AGE etc.
