I'm Too Pretty To Do Math!

Hi Peoples!

Well, I haven't been blogging to much as of late because I have been job-hunting. Yup, hittin' the old sidewalk! Today I put out about 15 applications for a variety of things: portrait photographer, Administrative Assistant/Receptionist/Secretarial, grocery store clerk, retail work, and waitress. I'm pooped! Last night I was filling out a few application forms I had picked up earlier in the day. I got to the last one. It is for a "home improvement" retail giant. Well, attached to the application form was...a math test!!!

Now, I am willing to do almost anything at this point to get a job, but math test? Uh, ... nuh...

Okay okay, "It can't be that hard after all" you ponder to yourself as you read this blog. And, granted, Section I was your basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems. No problems there.

But then came Section II -- a potpurri of "logic"-type questions. Now, you need to understand, I HATE logic problems. Always have, always will. For example, the first question was really no problem ... "if a room is 4 meters by 5 meters, how many square meters are there?" Okay, I can handle it. But then they have you baited and on the hook and there is only bloody demise! Next question went something like this: "If you take the square meters of Room A and multiply that by 52/78ths and then divide by Pi, followed by squaring the hypotenus by infinity, what colour paint would you suggest for the customer's bunkhouse and how much extra would he need for the outhouse?" Well...there was only one solution ...

I'm too pretty to do math!

My Grade 10 algebra teacher warned me about needing to know this kind of stuff in the real world blah blah blah...bless his heart. He really thought I cared! (*sniff*...wiping away tear...) I'm sorry and really do apologize to all you math geeks out there who really get worked up over the latest proven theorum ... but math is not my thing. Never has been, never will be.

Let's just say this retail giant will not be seeing my application anytime soon.

Well, time to go make dinner. Have a great night everyone! :D