Had an interview...

Smack dab in the middle of downtown Philly. Interviews make me a bit apprehensive as it is, but having to drive in downtown Philly alone was worse, I think. It was pretty uneventful, though I did have to muscle my way around traffic a little, lol. The closest parking to the building my interview was in had a sign that at first I thought said $4.75 per hour, which would have been a decent price, but when I got closer, I realized it said $4.75 per HALF hour. Crap. Good thing I had gone to the ATM for cash, but that also meant I couldn't stay for more than two hours, otherwise I wouldn't have enough.

So, I parked (three floors underground, kinda creepy), got out of the car, and looked around, trying to figure out what direction 15th & JFK was, but not wanting to look like I didn't know where I was going, heh. I saw what looked like might be the building I needed (didn't write down the name, silly me), and started walking towards it. There was a fountain right in the middle of the big intersections that I walked around, avoiding the shady characters, acting like I knew what I was doing.

Anyway, I found the building, went up to the 8th floor, and had my interview. It went really well, and they're going to submit my resume to the client (it's a recruiting agency). Get this--the client is University of Pennsylvania, one of the best schools in the country. I'd love to be able to attend college there, but at $34k/year, tuition is more than three times that of Temple's. Yikes. Regardless, I could probably make some pretty good contacts.

I left the interview feeling pretty good about it, but Penn is quite a ways away--30 miles. I told them the pay would have to be high enough to justify me going all the way downtown several times a week, not to mention the cost of taking the train. I should have just taken the train to the interview--there were steps into the tunnel for the train literally right in front of the building I interviewed in. Parking ended up costing me $15. GAH.