Friday, February 11, 2005

Non-Paper Assets Anyone?

Is it possible?

Hope still exists on the horizon? Could it be that this amber light cast across my world is but a sunrise, not the ironically beautiful sunset I've been assuming it was for the last six months.

Let's not, any of us, get our hopes up.

But. To be fair. I should tell you. I got the interview. The SECOND interview. The work team from G______. wants to take me to dinner to find out a little bit more about my "interaction style" and my "non-paper assets."

It's a little wierd that on separte phone calls two different people used these same exact phrases.

Sheila (who seems nice enough) and Paul (who seems dull enough) slid these phrases into really different contexts. Sheila was talking about what the company likes. Paul was talking about my interview. "interaction style" seems normal enough, though not exactly a phrase I've heard used in a job interview before, but this other one --

"non-paper assets"

what the hell?

I think maybe this must mean: what's good about me that's not on my resume?

so what happens after the interview? Do they write down my "non-paper assets"

because don't they, then become:

"paper assets"?

And now I'm feeling panicky. What are my non-paper assets?