I defy you to out-fate this one · 11:54pm Aug 3rd, 2016
I feel like the entire last six months of my life just culminated in this one thing. If this isn't the biggest coincidence of my young life, I must not have been paying attention.
It went something like this:
Step 1: Try to land internship with local publishing company, Future House.
->Step 2: Fail. :(
->Step 3: Am idle and poor.
->Step 4: Decide to get job at local mall (30 min. by bike, 1 hour on foot, no car and no bus pass) and try again for internship after stability, instead of moving home to family.
->Step 5: Over the course of about a week, make trips to mall for:
-Job Scouting
-Application Pickup
-Application Drop-off
-Follow-up
-Interviews
Multiple times each.
-->Step 5.5: Bike front tire goes flat, patch hole.
Step 6: Find bookstore, is hiring, low hours, decide to wait for something better.
->Step 7: Is nothing really better.
-->Step 7.5: Tire flat again, seal valve seam.
->Step 8: Procrastinate three days after making decision to take bookstore job.
->Step 9: Call, find out position was filled day before. :( (egg on face)
->Step 10: Get job offer, minimum wage :/ decide to keep looking.
->Step 10: Get call from bookstore: other person backed out, position open!
->Step 11: About to leave for first day of training (this morning), tire flat again! (no time to walk, no cash for bus)
->Step 12: Fill tire anyway, since plenty of time after training to walk home.
->Step 13: After training, tire flat. :/
->Step 14: Walk bike home.
->Step 15: Decide to play Pokemon GO while walking. (First time it works reliably!)
->Step 16: Decide to take downtown route home instead of usual, since walking and Pokemon.
->Step 17: Pass local library, popular GO spot not on usual route.
->Step 18: Decide to stop and see what big deal is.
->Step 19: Stay a while for four Pokestops with lures.
->Step 20: Is hot, sit down, no shade.
->Step 21: Find group of people sitting in shade, spot opens up, join.
->Step 22: Stay and play for ~1 hour.
->Step 23: Am approached by man with clipboard taking survey on Pokemon GO. (is developing AR fantasy adventure game)
->Step 24: Group thins, survey answers turn into in-depth discussion of AR. (~30 min.)
->Step 25: One person offers business consultation to surveyor.
->Step 26: Get idea to offer writing/editing services, summarize experience, mention internship search.
->Step 27: Man perks up, asks me to repeat. Is Future House founder! :o Future House in need of help!
->Step 28: Get referred to internship coordinator!
TL;DR:
Finished my six-month internship hunt today completely by accident. Would not have happened if:
-Publishing company's founder hadn't come by the library taking surveys for his new game,
-I hadn't stayed at the library long enough to be there when he came,
-I hadn't stopped at the library to play Pokemon GO,
-I had taken my usual route home that doesn't pass the library,
-I had successfully patched my bike tire the night before and not had it go flat again after work,
-Mall bookstore job training started today and got out when it did,
-Bookstore hadn't lost the person they just re-hired and called me instead,
-I hadn't waited one day too long to accept bookstore job the first time, before taking re-hire,
-I hadn't been trying to get a job at the mall and found the bookstore,
OR
-I hadn't gotten a job interview on the very day my parents said to give up and move back with them, so I could stay here. :/
That's basically been my life recently, btw. My mind is still a little blown.
Wow! Good for you! Brutal that you had to go through all those steps just to get it, though.
Funny how some of these things work out, isn't it? I love stumbling into these sorts of convoluted (yet apparently guided) paths.
Grats on landing that internship!
Man, that's amazing.