A Mirror Floating in Water

As a follow up to my "I got the job" post http://www.online-literature.com/forums/blog.php?b=9215. . . .

Okay, I get an email from examiner telling me what to do to get everything set up; I get a PayPal account, I do a criminal background check, I send them my bio and picture for them to set up on my homepage, etc, etc. All this is done.

Now it gets to the point in which I have my homepage set up and all I have to do is log in and get my first article published. It is a review for the French thriller Tell No One. I have it all written and ready. All that will need to be done is for the editor to check and review my first article and then my page goes public and I'm offically a film critic.

So I log in to my account for the very first time, everything is ready, and guess what? After going through all of this. After filling out an application and getting hired the next day. After getting sent multiple emails from my new employer telling me what to do to get everything set up. After all of this: I have to approve that I'm 18. Wtf?

Okay, maybe it is my fault for assuming that they would hire a sixteen year old. Actually, my naivety probably deserved the upset. But the application never asked for my age. They hired me. So what am I supposed to do? It's there fault for not putting it there in clear print on the application: we do not hire minors. What the hell was the point of going through this whole process only to realize at the very last second that I can't work for them. I don't know whom I should be more mad at, myself for my over ambition, or the company for not making things clear.

I don't know, maybe I'm just monumentally ignorant for assuming that they would hire a minor. The reason why I liked the idea of applying there in the first place was because they based the applicaiton at how well you can write about your subject, pure and simple.

God I'm so embarressed and ashamed.

Oh well. Sometimes it's best just to say "**** it" and move on. So I guess you'll be seeing more of my reviews around now, since I'm back working for litnet Despite that I've spent a week recovering from the major let-down, it's good to be back.

Besides, it's better to have an audience like you guys than get payed anyway.