It is a beautiful day

Nice and sunny today, between storms off the Pacific – a sunglasses day.

VocRehab set me up with a job developer, who is working with TJ Maxx stores for Holiday staffing. TJ Maxx is a department store – clothes and shoes and home stuff. It was a surprise a couple of weeks ago when VocRehab called and said "come today if you can" because the job developer was going to be there.

For as little as I prepared, apparently I made a good impression and two days ago, the job developer called and said "meet me at TJ Maxx on Wednesday at 1pm". I got there today at 12:45 only to find that the developer had called; he was going to be half an hour late, which gave me time to look around and to get a feel for the place and the employees.

This is a job evaluation, to see "how I do", and is unpaid for a month

Btw, I should say up front that I start on Monday – back to work!

Unpaid work, yeah, but a regular schedule that may work into a real job.

Ha ha ha. I was the best dressed person in the room – tie, jacket, pearl tie pin, highly polished boots – I looked good.

I was going to take a picture of my job interview self… but since I turned 50 in March, it seems like all my suits and "nice" clothes have shrunk, and my suits do not fit (if I want to sit down) now.

Bummer, dude.

I have a pair of black khakis that I wear all the time now – expanding waistline – and good shirts and ties (I love Goodwill), but I had to wear the sports coat I wore last month for that wedding I went to, a nice Lands End herringbone tweed sport coat. The dress shoes I have are nearly 30 years old – nice Italian style 80’s era men’s shoes, but I wore my nice, polished cowboy boots, and presented, I think, a nice package. The brain injury did not affect my speech, and I have almost fifty years of things I’ve done to talk about and there never seemed to be any doubt I’d get the position.

I start Monday.

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