The urgent call

The next day around 1:30 I received a cell phone message, a land line message, an email message and a text message on my phone. Call us! EAP had a position and I needed to call them by 3:00 pm.

I called.

They wanted to know about my experience handling hazardous material. The best I could come up with was cleaning out the fridge. It was not good enough. Then the staff person wanted to know about my engineering skills.

I am a city planner, at least this is what my resume says. I do city planning work. I schedule meetings and look at census data and tell local governments where they should allow new houses. I am not an engineer. My last experience with engineering was in high school when I had to build a toothpick bridge, which collapsed on its weigh to the testing station.

I told them I did not know engineering.

OK. Thanks. Goodbye.