I had that interview on Friday. I was the first person that they interviewed, which gives me mixed feelings. It's good because there is no one that I have to beat yet, and the interview would probably be easier this way. On the other hand, I don't get a chance to be clearly better than someone else before me, and I may not have really been able to show what I have to bring to the table since they may have been lobbing puffballs at me, rather than whipping hardballs. In any case, I will not get any kind of response until this Friday at the earliest, and I wouldn't be surprised if I had to have a second interview.
This is a problem, because today I started at zura's company. It was option #2. If I have to have a second interview, then I will ultimately have to call in sick or something. If I then get the job, then I simply suck. They will have trained and paid me for nothing. I would feel bad about that, but the hounds are at the door, I can't wait that long for cash, and I would much rather have the extra 50-60% in cash.
It was pretty difficult to truly accept that I have a job now. That I have to get up in the morning and go to work. I can get used to this again, of course, but this morning it felt as though I was going to a seminar or something. Nothing to get excited about. And as I anticipated, they weren't ready for me, so I am sitting here, well, blogging. There isn't anyone available to actually train me for the moment. I don't even have the software to get started. But once I have that, I know that it will become interesting as hell.
I really hope this crack works out well for you.