Christmas Part 1: The Interview

Jacob and I went to Boise this year for Christmas. Boise is much much warmer than Rexburg. :) We went a few days early so Jacob could go to an interview at AXA Advisors. A financial advisory firm that deals mostly with life insurance from what I can tell. 35 minutes before the interview we realized that Jacob could not find his belt, he forgot his dress shoes and he didn't bring a tie because he knew he was getting a couple for Christmas. So, he borrowed a tie from his dad, put on his everyday shoes with his black pants and his mom offered a brown woven belt that he thought about wearing until he thankfully found his belt in the car. But that still didn't solve the shoes. I was not about to let him go into an interview like that so we found shoes at Famous Footwear that were the right size and looked pretty good, except they were so stiff that Jacob couldn't bend his feet and on top of that the tongue was grinding in to the top of his feet. It didn't matter. We had 15 minutes to get there and he wanted to be early so he wore the shoes out of the store.

We didn't make it. We were 5 minutes late, Jacob couldn't remember the name of the person who was supposed to interview him, he had a big tie, no suit jacket and he was hunched over to help him limp faster. But the interview went as well as it could have gone, even though the guy was looking for more sales experience. Door to door type sales experience, so I don't think Jacob was very disappointed and neither was I.

We brought the shoes back the next day. Thanks for letting us borrow the shoes, Famous Footwear.