Job oddities

So I've had an odd barrage of potential and conditional job offers. I was supposed to have had a phone interview Monday morning and didn't hear from the company; turns out the recruiter had a cold. So that was rescheduled for this morning. Then yesterday I heard from one company and scheduled an interview for today at 1:00, but it's for seasonal work. During this morning's call, I was offered conditional employment. It's to work at home- basically functioning as part of an answering service for a whole slew of companies who use this one company for customer care. Sounded great to me! Work at home! Shifts at different times and broken up! Then I ended up with a slew of questions because, as I suspected, their in-house software isn't made for Macs. **heavy sigh** I do have my mini laptop which is a PC, and it will work, though I'd need to get a Linksys router and there's a bit of other equipment. But I could make it work. So I left a message with the seasonal people and didn't go to the interview. But I was second-guessing everything since I'd be relying on this little laptop and I'm not about to go buy another PC just to do this job, and then out of the blue a recruiter from St. Louis called, having seen my resume on careerbuilder. It's about a 2-month position doing conventional customer service in Beaverton. It's a ways out, but not bad on the train. So I went ahead and said sure, I'll go interview tomorrow. It's $1 more an hour, though it would have a commute, and is probably only temporary- though it could end up being temp to hire depending on how I did. And how the campaigns go. I'm going to go ahead and go interview and if they offer me something right then, to start next Monday, I'll take it instead as there's no worry about my own equipment or anything like that. Neither of them have benefits or anything, though the one at home would be full time if I log the hours. None of the 'good' jobs that I've been applying for (primarily at universities) have come through aside from that one interview, so I feel like I should jump on what does come my way, even if it's for two months. That's still two months of working and could lead to something else... but then again, I could opt to work from home, starting training in two weeks or so and it would be a permanent thing, as permanent as these things get.

There's no offer from the two month folks, so I guess I won't really start weighing things out until/unless than happens. But I'm just a bit frazzled. It's mostly in a good way, and I sure am not going to send vibes to the universe about not being grateful for the potential opportunities. I'd said to myself that I would be open to anything, no matter what it was.

My head's spinning a bit about all of this, so I'm going to sit back and knit for a while. I'm thrilled to say that I did some writing on my new Gimli story yesterday. So fun to get back into his head!!