Bozeman interview three

Hazen interviewed yesterday, and it went well. He got a lot of really good feedback, and overall he did a really good job. He couldn't get a definitive yes or no yesterday...basically, they're on the fence. His qualifications are great, he answered the questions correctly, he looked good...but there is "something" that is keeping them from hiring him. It basically comes down to the fact that he has spent the last six years working in and with the military. He has never held a job outside of the Air Force--no Taco Bell in high school, no JC Penny's to get through college. He has never worked one on one with the general public, and that is what is holding him back. We didn't expect that his military experience could be both a help and a hinderance!

So, now we wait. His scores have to be added and they need to decide what they want to do. There is no doubt that he can do the job, and probably do it very well, the concern is in how he will relate to people that aren't military. We are supposed to hear on Thursday morning if he gets it, so we will spend the next couple of days relaxing and praying and hoping that this is the end of our waiting.

I'm trying to be good and remember that everything happens for a reason, and if this doesn't work out, there is something better waiting. But I have to say, it is SO HARD to stay positive sometimes. He has been unemployed for a year now (he got paid through September of last year, but hasn't had a job to go through since the beginning of August '08). So it is definitely time.

I think the hardest part is that it is nothing that he's doing wrong. He behaves the way he was trained to behave when he was part of the military. He joined immediately after high school, and that was a HUGE part of him becoming who he is now. How do you offer support to someone who has done nothing to keep himself from getting hired, who has worked his butt off and gone to war TWICE, but has "something" holding him back? What do I say? I prefer problems we can fix...I'm not sure what the fix is for this.