The clock on the wall’s moving slower, my heart it sinks to the ground…

-”Fool in the Rain”, by Led Zeppelin.

Well. This sucks. I mean like, this really goddam sucks. I’m probablyoverblowing it, actually, but I’m pissed off. And for once, I’m pissed at myself.

Okay. As you may or may not know, yesterday, I went to this place called Express Personnel Services (or something to that effect). The husband of one of my high school teachers works there, and I was told he might be able to get me a job. So, I filled out the application and everything. I came back today to take the same computer assessment that I didn’t do that great on last time.

See, I do not know how to use advanced functions of Microsoft Word (like running macros, and such). I mean, I can figure it out, but it’s not something I do every day, and when taking an assessment test, it’s a lot more stressful than an actual job would be. And…. I don’t know how to use Excel at all. For fuck’s sake, the last time I had to use a spreadsheet was when I was a sophomore in High School. That was almost five goddam years ago.

The typing, I can do. I’m not great with typing numbers, because I don’t ever need to type a million numbers at a time…

Well, I didn’t think it was possible, but I did worse on the test this time than I did before, and I sucked pretty bad at it before. Last time, on the Word and Excel assessments, I got about 40%, which is pretty damn good for not using those functions, but is still a failure.

This time, on the ten key test, I didn’t even qualify for their “acceptable” range. The alphanumeric typing was alright, but the typing assessment? 63 goddam words a minute. I type up to 90 words a minute, and I get a fucking 65wpm score? What the fuck is that all about? God dammit. What the fuck is with that? I am still really, really torked off.

So. I signed up for a tutorial there. I go in on Monday at 2pm… I’m hoping that helps. If not… if I can get financial aid to go to school next semester, I might take a couple classes on it, so I can actually get a goddam job. Anyway.

So, this is the last night of my night class. I hope I actually learn something tonight, because I haven’t really learned a whole lot up to this point. I am going to take down some notes on doing normal things a person would have to use Photoshop, so I could potentially do these things at a job… And. I’m going to download a 30 day trial of Photoshop, so I could even practice that stuff.

So still. While I’m really kinda mad at myself, it’s not all bad, I suppose.

 

~ by bluesilver on March 6, 2008.