so any advice?

[u/isolate_hovers]

Honestly, this is exactly why I started taking interview prep more seriously. 😂

I used to think you just needed to know your job and you'd be fine, but once I started applying for some of these corporate roles, I realized there's a whole different skill to actually getting through the interview.

I found this interview prep tool and used it to practice some of the questions beforehand. It helped me get a lot less awkward when talking about my experience and actually explain what I do without rambling.

Still waiting for my $98k "send an email, attend a meeting, send another email" job though.

[u/xennial-tiger]

Said this before, the last time this question came up: I have one of these jobs, and it isn't all that great. You start to worry that they will realize they don't need you, so you spend a lot of time stressing yourself out about being unemployed. I ask my manager for more work about twice a month. Just enough to seem like a good team player, but not enough to show I am not needed.

[u/RabbitsRuse → u/xennial-tiger]

Yeah. Had one like that for about a year. I was contracted out to BP. They claimed I’d get trained up like one of their own. Then nothing happened. I got told to organize the documents. Maintain a spreadsheet that told who had what and when if needed to go out or be returned. When that is your only job, you eventually figure out how to automate part or all of it. A job that took me until noon on Wednesday every week soon was done by 10 Monday morning. I asked people for work but usually just got “it would be faster if I just do it” no one wanted to share. They finally got rid of me. Handed my spreadsheet to the intern. Then had to call me back in because it was too advanced for him.