Oh wait I have to think of something to say here. I am watching TV right now and I am worrying about a job interview that I need to be prepared for tomorrow.
I know you have job jitters as well, so you can perhaps relate. I have been in school for quite a while and I feel like I don't know what these places that hire massage therapists are really looking for. I know a lot of massages, but I don't know what I'm supposed to do to convince them to hire me.
I am new at the interviewing process when it comes to this type of job. I have interviewed since I was 16 years old, so I have a LOT of experience, but sometimes that is not helpful, when you have TOO many ideas to draw from.
I just want to get this over with and start working. But I have to do a lot of boring things to prepare for this interview. I need to watch a bunch of videos to make sure I am doing something that looks like it flows and not like someone who does not know what they are doing. I also have to update my resume' to be sure I have current massages I have learned. I have to prepare a job history that sounds plausible considering I have not worked in the past 6 years very much, because I took care of my mom.
(so far I have typed for about 6 minutes.)
So, this is how far I have gotten after 6 minutes.
I figure I can type twice as much more in 9 more minutes.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at July 27, 2017 6:25 PM MDT
Hi Shar to the Rona~ a 3 - p a g e l e t t e r a b o u t s o m e t h i n g Well, that took about 30 seconds, including changing the font type and size. It took 5 seconds to simply type "a 3 - page letter about something." You can figure that takes up 1/2 of one 8 1/2 x 11 piece of paper. 5 x 2 = 10. 10 x 3 pieces of paper = 30. Answer is 30 seconds
This post was edited by Merlin at September 12, 2017 8:54 AM MDT
Probably far longer on a computer than by hand - though at least the print would be legible, unlike my scrawl - because a word-processor makes it too easy to be never satisfied with your style, so you keep faffing with it.
Thank you Jane - your are right. Shar mis-read it!
As it happens I cannot type properly (I was never a trained, professional keyboard operator) so have to keep correcting spelling errors, but my point also holds for longer documents like submissions to club magazines.
I tend to write such a document in a long flow, quite rapidly; then revise it, sometimes quite heavily, for correction, concision and clarity. In doing so, it is very easy to start modifying the prose style as well as grammar - to think that phrase is better inverted, this paragraph ought to follow that, and so on.
I think we just go about things differently. For me, to write a long letter without having to condense it down to just the most relevant points, takes much less time. When I write a letter, I have to keep checking it for spelling and grammar and making sure that the wording is clear. When I write a brief letter, making sure every word counts consumes a lot of time.
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