It has been a while but a quick note about strange cosmic challenges that come your way:
2 weeks ago I was sitting in dead locked traffic on a freeway on-ramp when a motorcycle Highway Patrol pulled next to my stopped car and noticed that I was looking at my phone. When asked what I was doing on the phone because, again, I was dead stopped as well as the cop who was next to me, I answered I was 'looking at email, nothing urgent.' Well your boy got a ticket for $150 for not choosing (or being smart enough?) to lie in that case.
Now just this evening I got a call from a company you would like to work for and a company I dreamed of working for. This call went as expected for most early recruiting calls: affable and friendly. Then the HR rep on the other end of the phone broke out into some 'coaching'. She communicated that this company has a strict rule on grade point averages and that I should consider that their grade point limit was 3.5 but that they would not check this as I have been out of college now for 10+ (ugh) years.
'So now, I have to ask you what was your GPA in college.'
'Well, I can't really remember as it was a while ago, but I think somewhere around 3.0.'
And the call wrapped up shortly thereafter after hearing that it was then impossible to move forward due to policy.
Anyway the point I guess to me is: whats the next test cosmos? I (think) I am ready.
