I am so excited--I just accepted an offer to work for Heirloom Carbon Laboratories. 🥼
Heirloom is a small start-up in San Francisco and Brisbane that is working to pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it into rocks or formations to keep it out of cycle. I will be working as a simple lab technician, but I am excited to work in the lab, in climate, and in a company with so much potential.
I began this 'quest' back in late June. My good friend Mari sent me the position back on May 24th, and it took me a whole month to consider applying. I was panicking at this point, and felt like I just needed to line up a job since I had been unemployed for so long. But I finally felt my confidence coming back after a good number of interview requests so I took my shot. I sent in my application on their website and reached out to their recruiter on LinkedIn. I told her I applied and we were able to set up a quick phone call a couple days later.
And we were off. I talked with the recruiter, then immediately set up other interviews with the heads of research and development before I went off to Iceland. Those interviews felt strong, and I was gaining hope that I could join this world of active climate science work.
I kept in light touch with the Heirloom team while in Iceland and they were kind enough to push back a follow-up interview until I returned at the end of July. This was incredibly kind, and helped me truly prepare again for interview mode. We talked about my work in the lab for school courses and research, and I think I was able to defend myself and my school proudly.
That was on Thursday the 28th. On Monday the 1st I gave the HR team my references. On Tuesday the 2nd, I got messages from all my references that they had chatted with HR. And on Wednesday the 3rd I had an offer!
I'm so excited to work for this team and hope I'll be able to find my comfort zone. I start work on August 15th!