Michigan, journey for job interviews. Questions, canceled.

So I Received my Michigan RT license in the mail. Immediately applied for jobs, and soon after got phone calls for interviews. Left California with almost everything I own in a sub compact vehicle, Made it through the 2350 mile journey- with some interesting events a long the way, and now I'm back home in Michigan.

First job interview was at a long term care facility with some negative press.
Canceled on me a day before my interview. "Restructuring". So in 3 days I'll have my first RT job interview. It's alright with me that it's taken so long. Trying to be there for my mom in California was worth it. Though I was not considered worthy even for a phone interview there. Family comes first, and the hopelessness of getting a job there no matter what I tried was a learning and also a thoroughly tempering experience.

I was talking to my best friend here and he expressed to me that it was imperative to work on interviewing questions. Well I felt relatively comfortable being asked completely random clinical questions. "Yes they ask some of those, but it's mostly another type of question." Awkward, strange, personality questions. How you had or would respond in different social situations at work- as well as questions such as "What are your weaknesses."

I have no doubt that I could and would respond well and agreeably to almost any social situation at work owing to my even disposition and good temperament. But not having any forewarning that such questions would perhaps be asked in an RT position interview would have left me to respond initially with a blank stare, then some awkward improvised response.

Why should it be at all a challenge for me? In my mind Professionalism, especially in the medical field, would require a mature friendly reasonable response to any situation. Knowing and believing in that and applying it to myself, I would invariably respond in a mature, friendly reasonable way that was tailored in response to the exact situation. I am an intuitive person and so that is how I respond. So to answer a question about a situation, but without specifics can have a dumbfounding effect on me. What could I say that honestly and adequately expresses a response I would have in that general situation? Of curse it would take me a few minutes to properly formulate an answer.

As anything with school or life, practice makes perfect. I hope to impress whoever interviews me, and to then go on and work hard and smart and to impress whoever I work with. Out of respect for them, my school, my teachers, my family, and myself.

I'm grateful how an interview being canceled doesn't upset me that much. I would have made the best out of working there, specialized my trach care skills, and been happy for the job. But there are others and it's nice to have an interview somewhere else in three days.