Doors Opening?

After the whole debacle with Gallaher (yes, ok, I finally mentioned the name of the old company... fuck it and any consequences) I felt like I was in the middle of a rather epic career crisis. Heck, I didn't just feel that way, it was fact. In most ways I still feel that old fear in the back of my mind... 'What am I going to do now? Where will life take me from here?'. But things are looking up.

I had my first 1:1 interview with Glaxo yesterday, and they let me know today that they would like me to come back for the final interview! That alone is good news. What makes it even better is that the interviews were conducted by a number of people from the agency handling the GSK account and one person who was from GSK itself. I was called to be interviewed by said single Glaxo representative, which I took to be a good sign (I already felt that I had stood out by being the only person to be able to state the prices of their products in both independent and multiple stores). My interviewer then asked me if I prefered to work in the independent channel or with the multiple stores. Obviously I have experience in the independent channel, which I mentioned, by said that I would relish the challenge of the multiple grocers, and would in fact regard it as almost a promotion. Her reply was that yes, it was in fact a promotion and the salary reflected as such, and that she was there specifically to look for people to work in the multiple sector.

So for the moment I'm feeling confident. My next interview is on the 17th and for it I have to plan a 10 minute presentation on my favourite product. What the hell is my favourite product? I could go for brownie points and choose one of theirs, but I think that may be trying to hard. Any suggestions for products are welcome.

As a side note, as an employee of one of the UK's biggest companies to an ex-employee of one of the UK's biggest companies, she then asked me, in her words, "What the hell is happening at Gallaher anyway? We've had so many people coming here from them?" I feigned a bit of ignorance... not wanting to give her the full brunt of my opinion.

Anyways, I have to be off. I have an interview for Red Bull in a couple of hours.