My First Interview

I applied for an editor's position in Science but was offered a Writer's position for Maths instead. I was a little apprehensive when I received the call, but was persuaded by the caller to attend the interview. This is something I have been wanting to do for a long time, something away from teaching but still associated with education.

Clad in my pint striped blue suit, black pointed heels and the beautiful pearl earrings gifted by V, I was ready to leave my home. Dad got me some holy ash, mom checked my attire, a good luck wish from my domestic helper, a hug by Lesh and off I went for the interview. Since its Singapore, I took a cab to Raffles place where the office was. These are the things I missed when I was away from home. I created a mess while choosing the outfit to wear for the interview, clothes ironed and hung in my room, food on the table, mess cleared by the time I get back home, and family around to share your sorrows and successes. Its definitely great to be back home.

I was there waiting for the interviewer to attend to me. The office was on the 29th floor, the most prestigious part of Singapore where the large offices and banks stand. Lawyers and businessmen clad in suits walking in and out of these buildings, it sure is a place to be. The Managing Editor entered the room. She explained to me that this post was offered to me as this is higher than an Editor's position that I had applied for. This company publishes text books for the International market, and my job as a writer is to produce the content for these text books. Interesting ehh? "This is what I would love to do", I was telling myself. Then came the question, "what we are offering for this position is 1k less than your last drawn, will you be still interested?" I smiled at her, she knew what my response was going to be. She then offered a freelance writing position if I was still interested. Now that seemed more like it i thought. I agreed on that and brought back the first assignment to be done and sent to them in a week! So my task now is to write a chapter to teach TIME to Primary 1 students in an International context. This chapter has 4 learning outcomes and I will have to design the workbook to go with the text, It is not as easy as i thought, it is not just coming up with the questions, I need to include an opening page for the chapter in the form of poem or something catchy, include an activity and a thinking bank. I shall begin :P