Portland / Semiahmoo / Seattle Trip

I'm obviously behind in my blogging, as this trip was in March. The purpose of this trip, in addition to visiting my parents and beloved wonder hound, was to interview for a UOP job in Portland. The Portland manager had been kind of vague saying the position wasn't open at the moment, but probably would be soon. I figured it was worth a shot.

About an hour before I left for the Phoenix airport, I was at work scrolling through the new job postings. I was excited to see that an enrollment counselor job had just been posted for Seattle. I quickly sent off my resume and a cover letter saying I'd be in Seattle that Monday and would be available to interview. Again, kind of shaky circumstances but worth a shot. Long story short: I had my first of the three Seattle interviews on Amtrak from Portland to Bellingham. I think Amy the interviewer and I called each other back a total of six or seven times as the connection kept dropping as cell connections on a train are known to do. The 2nd interview that Monday (March 26th) was in Bellevue, where I was told the job was going to be. When I first arrived, I was ushered to a computer to do some sort of personality test I've never heard of (and I've heard of most of them). At the end of the test I was informed that I'm a 'Blue'. Who knew? The interview went fine and was followed several days later by a phone interview in which I was asked to role play several student / counselor scenarios. Now normally I love this kind of thing. I did a lot of these when I worked for Together of Oregon, always delighting in playing the most difficult prospective member possible, and making that character as colorful as possible ("Ok, I'm going to be a tattoo artist named Lacey. I just got out of jail...")
Role playing in an interview was significantly less fun, but I got through it ok.

I'm going to post the photos from the trip separately, as the new Blogger format is driving me crazy by not allowing me to move around text and photos in the manner in which I'm accustomed.