update- DM who interviewed me got transferred and I had to re-do the 1st interview with his replacement which went well until I was pretty much told that I am not qualified for MIT, but can start out as cashier on fast-track to shift manager which is still 2 steps below MIT.... the funny thing is that this DM tried to tell me it was not due to my lack of managerial experience, but my lack of RETAIL experience... RFLMAO... I politely stated that my resume did not include the 4 summers of working at Home Depot as well as working a holiday season at The GAP as I wanted to put my most RECENT experience and the experience that shows that I have done managerial tasks in both an office and retail environment as well as owned my own business, but do have experience doing everything from pushing carts to driving a forklift to greeting customers to making sales to cashiering, etc, etc, etc.... long story short I went from getting "offered" a $12.60/hr a job to being told "I'll call you in 5-7 days to notify you IF we'll take the next step"....
anyways, just needed to get it off my chest, but I hate having to be back at step one and I thought having a college degree and a decent amt of experience should be worth atleast $15-20/hr if not more especially since my financial situation at the moment makes me unable to accept anything that's gonna pay less than $3k/month as that's about the total of my FIXED expenses(less the $1300/month I get in rent from my roommates)
I also hate the whole corporate b.s. that getting A JOB involves 3-4 interviews and 3-4 weeks of playing the waiting game just to get AN OFFER
all the while I am playing this waiting game the bills don't...