{"id":15558,"date":"2021-02-18T00:19:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15558"},"modified":"2021-02-18T00:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:19:16","slug":"poetry-v-the-world-well-get-back-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2021\/02\/18\/poetry-v-the-world-well-get-back-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry v. The World: &#8220;We&#8217;ll get back to you&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U4-jBBYAfT8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This week I had an interview, (believe it or not), and it served as an odd moment of self reflection for me.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s quite a few anxieties I&#8217;m usually prone to having before one. It&#8217;s essentially you selling yourself, a pitch <em>for<\/em> you <em>by<\/em> you. I&#8217;m not super comfortable when I have to do something like that. Talking myself up has always been a rough spot for me. Not because I&#8217;m modest, but because I value the appeal of seeming modest when I&#8217;m not. (And I&#8217;m only half joking.)<\/p>\n<p>But nonetheless our insecurities can really surface in those moments before. Ones concerning appearance, attitude, intelligence. The problem is it&#8217;s me as a whole that I have to maintain, not just one or a couple facets of myself. Usually in essays I just have to worry about my language, in sports I just need to worry if I&#8217;m achieving good results with physical movement. So I&#8217;m not used to everything needing to have purpose, to have weight. My posture, my responses, how I deliver my responses, how I handle stress. Covering all these bases while simultaneously having to work it all out on the fly is challenging.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, it&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t overcome these to some degree. I&#8217;m not the perfect interviewee, don&#8217;t get me wrong. But I maintain a level of clarity during interviews, despite the constant need to freak out. I think it comes from a place of necessity. At some level I understand that the calm and relaxed version of me is more likely to get hired than a tense, on-edge version. Since my end desire is wanting to get hired, I can manually turn the volume down on the things that would slow me down.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least, that&#8217;s what I do. What do you do to prepare for an interview? I honestly could use more tips and tricks to get me through it.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, please stay safe and have fun! Until next time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>jonahso<\/p>\n<p>-Jonah J. Sobczak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I had an interview, (believe it or not), and it served as an odd moment of self reflection for me. There&#8217;s quite a few anxieties I&#8217;m usually prone to having before one. It&#8217;s essentially you selling yourself, a pitch for you by you. I&#8217;m not super comfortable when I have to do something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2230,"featured_media":14234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15559,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15558\/revisions\/15559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}