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- Grady O. Williams III (willgo3@netcom.com) wrote:
- : HEhehe... Right on... thats our California logic speaking.. I think
- : people figure the only place in Ca. is Los Angeles, No... you can live
- : other places surrounding Los Angeles, which quite possibly would remind
- : you of where every you are from... however if we start to talk about
- : pressures... Los Angeles has alot of hot tempered folks... but California
- : in general is nice... Earthquakes are rare... usually small, but the show
- : the epicenter on TV... tryin to sesationalize gore.... besides, who would
- : turn down an interview with Dreamworks without even knowing if they would
- : get the job??? Seems like it'd be more advantageous to brag about being
- : hired and turning it down than anything else...
-
- Because that's not my style, and I don't have that kind of ego.
-
- They caught me completely off-guard. Purely on whim, I sent resumes to
- several shops out in LA during a recent job search; DreamWorks, Sony
- Imageworks, etc. I entertained not even the most modest of fantasies that
- any of them would contact me. When Lisa from DreamWorks called, I was
- forced to confront a decision that I didn't think I would have to make
- so soon: Do I want to live in LA? I spent two days and nights sweating
- over that question before I was finally able to get back in touch with
- them.
-
- The first question I asked was "Does this position require relocation to LA?"
- When she said yes, knowing that I was not willing to move to LA were an offer
- made, I saw no sense in wasting both my time and theirs going through a long-
- distance interviewing process. I interview enough; I don't need the practice.
-
- It has always been my belief that turning down an offer after completing the
- interview process is far more damaging than declining to interview because of
- geographical preferences. I made it quite clear that I would love to work for
- DreamWorks, it's just that I would rather not relocate.
-
- Regards, |||
- Bob ^(===)^
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