Yipes! Nervous nervous excited nervous.

I had an interview today at 11:00, a floral design position at a craft store. Talk about dream job!!!

Here are my thoughts.

The job sounds like a lot of work. I thought there would be more than one florist, but it doesn't sound like that's the case. But I'm not entirely sure.

They ask me to work a 7-8 hour shift one weekend a month. :( That is the biggest hang-up. I really value my weekends with Stephen, and I really do not want to give up my current job. I love working with fresh flowers and with Delilah (wow, who thought I'd ever say that!). I just plain love my job.

It would only be minimum wage, which is not that big of a hang-up since it would be 16-20 hours a week anyway. That's already....Like, four times what I'm making right now! Holy cow! So yeah. Not a problem. :)

They need somebody organized who can follow directions and guidelines. Check. Have you seen my grades in school? LOL.

It's working with silk flowers. :/ I definitely do not like silk flowers as much as real ones.

Plus, it's a FLORAL DESIGN position. Like, the real thing. Not an assistant. I would be THE floral designer. I would do weddings, events, holidays, absolutely everything. I wonder how much, like, money and time and people management this job would entail? Like, would I be asked to hire people for holidays? Ugh. I should have asked that. 'Cause managing...I have zero experience managing. But they didn't say anything about that.

So anyway. Two hang-ups: floral DESIGNER, and weekend shifts. Oh boy.

And this is only 16-20 hours a week? It sounds like full-time to me!

What is super nice, is that they have very clear and specific guidelines for what they want. I so wish I would have emphasized how much I like that idea more in the interview. But I got stuck on the weekend shifts thing and stopped thinking straight. :P

So...Lot's of prayer this weekend. They had a couple other people to interview this weekend and they'll be calling me with the results on Tuesday.

YIKES!!! Nervous nervous excited nervous!!

-Stephanie

Stephen gave me a number of suggestions about the job and availability. My favorite one was to request that, for the Sundays I have to work, to get the following Mondays off. Stephen still has that day off of work, so we would get to spend time together then. My second favorite suggestion of his was to split it into two 4-hour work days. From the interview, it sounded like they are flexible enough that I could probably work one of those out.

I talked to Stephen's mom and she said she isn't as strongly convicted as she used to be about not working on Sundays. She said we could always find a Saturday-night church to go to. But I told them I would work after 2:00 anyway, so that wouldn't be too much of a problem.

One last concern remains. I prefer working with fresh flowers, and ultimately I would like to be a floral designer with fresh flowers.

I guess two concerns. I'm still not convinced I can do as much as they are requiring of me. It sounds like a LOT more work than I was expecting, although all of it is fun work. And I'm not entirely sure there will be another florist who works there, too, although that is my impression.

So I need to ask them:

1. For my one or two Sundays a month, could I request the following Monday off? Alternatively, could I break my 7-8 hour shift into two 4-hour shifts?
2. Would I be the only florist working at this particular location?
3. Would I be in charge of hiring extra help around the holidays or ordering in supplies?

But I have to ask myself this. Given that I could always have Mondays off whenever I worked a Sunday, that I would not be in charge of hiring other florists for holiday help, and that I would not be the only florist working there, would I still want the job?

And am I creative enough for this position?

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I keep coming back here with further thoughts and such. I wonder, if I have to think so hard about this job, should I be taking it?

I stopped by the craft store near my house in hopes that I could ask the florist a few questions about her job, but she was gone for the weekend. I got to ask the woman at the cash register a couple questions, though.

1. They do only have one florist per shop.
2. The florist does not have to do all the stocking of the buckets (thank goodness!)
3. The florist does not have to hire extra help during the holidays, the hiring managers do (another thank goodness!!)

I still don't know exactly how much is expected of her in a week. But there were 35 custom craft arrangements around the buckets area, and I didn't even get to count the number of wreaths above the cash registers or the number of arrangements on clearance. Obviously, the clearance arrangements weren't all done in one week, since they didn't correspond to the current season (and this craft store is always one season ahead), but it did make me wonder--what do they do with arrangements that don't sell?? But I think perhaps the reason those arrangements stick around for so long is so that they WILL sell.

I feel that there is a lot of responsibility on the shoulders of the florist at this store, and I think perhaps it is more than I am prepared to handle at this point of my life. The fact that I am IT greatly worries me.

One other thing the interviewer said to me worries me. "If you increase sales, your hours increase." The hours part wasn't what worried me--it's that I'm expected, somewhat, to increase sales. Yipes! I hated that part of my Domino's job....

Ugh. Round and round in circles and I'm still no closer to making a decision one way or the other. I have a LOT of questions to ask, but I want to have at least a leaning one way or the other before I go and ask 1/2 a dozen questions.

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And to boot, I really don't like working with silk flowers. I most definitely prefer fresh. :/

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