<\/p>\n
It was only a 5 minute<\/p>\n
early morning walk<\/p>\n
from Lev Tolstoy station,<\/p>\n
17 stories up<\/p>\n
a grey, non distinct office building.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A few quick handshakes<\/p>\n
a brief scan of my starved resume<\/p>\n
and a few quick questions<\/p>\n
that was it.<\/p>\n
The head teacher led me<\/p>\n
out of the conference room<\/p>\n
and into the school’s small lobby.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
As I stepped out<\/p>\n
a small Brit tossed his head and asked<\/p>\n
“Join me for a smoke?”.<\/p>\n
I followed along, out onto<\/p>\n
a balcony, enjoying<\/p>\n
the fall’s fresh slavic air<\/p>\n
and now looking down<\/p>\n
the mighty Dniepr in the distance.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A few more stabs of conversation<\/p>\n
‘n small talk<\/p>\n
then the guy<\/p>\n
flicks his unfinished fag<\/p>\n
out into the wild yonder<\/p>\n
puts his hands through his hair<\/p>\n
and says,<\/p>\n
“It was only last Thursday”.<\/p>\n
“Thursday, what?”, I replied.<\/p>\n
“Thursday, the guy were replacing \u00a0jumped.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
A moment of silence<\/p>\n
then I muttered a<\/p>\n
“sorry to hear” and<\/p>\n
a “good to know”,<\/p>\n
shook his hand and<\/p>\n
found my way out<\/p>\n
onto the waking\u00a0streets of Kyiv.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I didn’t bitch much when<\/p>\n
I found out I hadn’t got the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was only a 5 minute early morning walk from Lev Tolstoy station, 17 stories up a grey, non distinct office building. A few quick handshakes a brief scan of my starved resume and a few quick questions that was it. The head teacher led me out of the conference room and into … Continue reading The job interview<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}