My Second Impression…

Given that the title of this blog is ¨Making a good second impression,” I find it fitting to try and do just that with my second post. So here goes nothing…

The website I’m using for this blog, wordpress.com, keeps records telling you how many views your blog gets from people who found your site by using a search engine, like Google. They also tell you exactly what the person searched for. For example, if a person typed into Google “Awesome blog written by super cool cat that talks about zebras, Barbara Walters and pets named after famous people,” they find my site, click on it, and wordpress tells me about it!

So a few days ago I had a rather interesting one. Apparently somebody found my site by googling, and I quote: “What to tell interviewer how much I am m.” Alright, so you’re probably just as confused as I was when I first saw it, as it doesn’t seem to make much sense at all. But I think I figured it out.

“What to tell interviewer how much I am m” was clearly typed by neither man nor woman, but rather by a large walking, talking, living, typing lower case letter ‘m.’ Just get a good image of that in your head, a human sized living, breathing letter ‘m,’ sounds fun right? I know you guys are probably all banging your heads on your keyboards as you realize how it obvious it is (perhaps hitting the ´m´ key)!

Now beyond this, I am not 100% certain why he searched that, but I can make an educated guess. The most likely scenario seems to be that this ´m´ had a job interview, and it didn’t go very well. I mean, imagine an interviewer’s surprise when a talking lower case letter ‘m’ walks into the office. Here he thought the ‘ichael’ was accidentally left off the applicant’s name on his resume, but really, the guy is just a large letter ‘m.’

So this interview goes badly, as expected. The interviewer is shocked right when ‘m’ walks into the room. ‘m,’ seeing this, becomes nervous and starts to perspire. He starts mumbling his answers, becoming very anxious as the interviewer stares at him in awe. ‘m’ then makes some sudden movements, attempting to feign enthusiasm only to have his suit rip at the seams (you try getting a suit tailored to fit a walking letter ‘m!’) The interview ends, and as he walks out in shame, he gets stuck in the doorway, forgetting that doors weren’t built for wide letters (he also becomes sad he isn’t a letter “I”).

The letter ‘m’ goes home and, hoping to avoid the embarrassment he felt at the interviewer’s shock, googles “What to tell interviewer how much I am m” trying to find a better way to tell an interviewer about his “condition.” His eyes light up as he finds my blog promising a good second impression! Unfortunately he is let down, as my first post probably didn’t help him.

So in case ‘m’ stumbles upon this blog again, I thought I’d offer some advice for a good second impression. ‘m,’ if your out there, I suggest you give up the corporate world where your unique talents are lost. Instead, I think you should really look to apply for a job at Sesame Street. I hear the last ‘m’ had an identity crisis (stood on her head all day hoping to become a ‘w’), and there’s an opening in their letter of the day department.

Most importantly though ‘m,’ just be yourself! If the first impression goes badly, there’s always a second. Now if you blow that one too, sorry, I can’t really help you. Maybe there’s a “Making a good third impression” blog out there somewhere?!?

(Thanks Chris for the links…)