Oh The Stresses and Joys Of Job Hunting and How I Feel Today!

So from the thousands of emails I sent out with resumes I got one answer back...ONE!!!!!
The good part is even though I am still stressing I was filled with some hope too, the bad part, the ONE response I got back sounds fishy:P
I have done this thousands of times, the job hunting you know, and you eventually end up with this 6th sense about it. It is like you automatically know if you will nail that interview or not, if that offer is real or a bogus, you just know. I just know this job offer sounds fishy, but I am sticking with it since it was the only answer I got back.
What I have learned in the 5 years that I have been working is:
A) Be bold, boldness in a good way(which is the best I can explain) makes people interested in you. If you are scared your possible new boss will see through you and you might as well kiss that job good-bye.
B) Be honest, if you tell them you are punctual, assertive, hardworking,learn fast, you better make sure you really are, because on that first week of trial they will bring it on and either you do as you told them, or you are out of there.
C) Don't seem too eager, or else they will think you are desperate and walk all over you because they KNOW you need that job and it totally spoils it for the ones that are no ass kissers.
D) Communication. Being in a job where you have to interact with peers and clients, is just like being married. So communication is an essential factor in order to make it work. I could tell you dozens of stories of how very good work relationships ended in a bad mess because of lack of communication.
E) Always keep the distance. Do not make best friends with people above you, I am telling you right now it is a messy thing, because unless you both are awesome at separating business from relationship(and most times even if you are, your boss is not), distances keep your work, oh well, to be WORK! It does not mean you cannot interact in a friendly way with the people above you, it just means that some things are meant to be kept to self.
F)Peers. Now this is a sticky one, I have made very good friends with people I have worked with, I have fought with people I have worked with and some people I have worked with just wanted to nail me in order to raise. So how do you know?
You DON'T! On this one you mostly have to follow your gut, and if you are like me most likely you will fall on your butt, get your feelings hurt, and have to make things clear once in a while to certain people. Be especially careful of those who absolutely adore you, those are dangerous little weasels. If someone loves you more than your own mama, you're in big trouble.
When I was 19 I became the youngest manager in the chain of clothes store I worked for. I did not want to be manager( I was 19 for goodness sake, lived on my own and thought I had my share of responsibility), but it really was not an offer it was more like an order and so I went. It lasted for 3 months, not that I was a bad manager, nope I was actually good at what I did,I had learned well, it had all to do with relationships. Not everyone is willing to have a 19 year old boss(even though the last thing I felt like was that) and I was not ready to have someone question my authority(I have learned better)in every single decision I made. I crumbled! Good thing you learn from your mistakes, if it happened now I would probably have been a little more listening, and had done a better job at communicating instead of letting things get as far as they did, which ended up with me leaving the store crying, asking for my relocation at some other store(thumbs up for me for running away) and letting this person become manager of that one store.This will make you think I am crazy, but today we are friends, I talk to her and hear her complaints and we both agreed we had not been very fair to each other. Life is funny!
From then on I decided I was never going to crumble again and so far I haven't. I have worked with people who have literally made my life miserable, I have worked with people who I loved working with and when they left I left too(that is a good boss, someone who is so good that if you can't work with them you leave too, especially when you know who the new boss is going to be:P)
I usually don't give up on the bad bosses, they are usually stressed, angry people with personal problems, other times they really are just assholes, but I find in this challenge and until I win their respect I don't usually leave, I guess I am a masochist.I have a vast CV, I have done so many different things it blows my mind. Some of them I hated, some of them I loved, but in all of them I came out a different person and learned so much more than I would have learned in college. I know everything about logistics, I know about merchandising, I know about what sells and what doesn't, how to make people buy, and I can fix computers and printers on my own.I love dealing with people and so I have grown in that area too, I got to meet a lot of people, and I have had a job interview that I nailed the job, with no make-up, all sweaty from running and in running clothes and shoes to work at a perfume shop where you had to look like a doll:D
I am friends wit all my ex bosses, which goes against my prior advice, but because I have gone through so much crap in these relationships I figured that was a wise advice to give, but in the end it is a choice we make.
I stress, but that is just who I am, I am pretty sure I can get a job, it might take me a week when I go back, I might have to talk to my connections, I might end up again at the mall, but I guess I am ready for that. Time here in Africa gave me the rest I needed from humanity and malls and crazy people and confusion. It scares me that I might get all worked up in a new mall job, that once again I will forget what I love. I have done it in the past, when I have a consuming job that entertains me I work at it more than I should. That is probably why when I get tired, I feel like making all malls, stores or places you have to deal with nasty people blow up:P
I also have people that make me want to wake up every morning and go to work, people that come to where you work to say hi, ask you how you are doing and bring you chocolate, those are the clients I live for.
If I sound conceited when I speak I beg your pardon, but I am not, I just know my worth in what I do, and I AM good with people, I DO learn fast and I work HARD, know your worth might be good advice too, don't be cocky, but know your strengths and also you weaknesses so no one can use them against you.
It is a jungle out there in the real world, worse than being in the bush in Africa I am telling you, but the satisfaction in knowing your worth and doing your job successfully is priceless.
I feel a lot better today.
Continue praying for a job for me, and hopefully my advice might in some way help you out.
Today I choose to not be stressed and just trust:D
Tei