I rocked the interview. ROCKED IT. I’m sure of it.

The skinny is that yes, this is half grunt work, half professional work. But after talking with the Chief Academic Officer, I would totally take this job. This school is working to add more graduate/professional programs, pharmacy and law for two, and is on the cusp of a huge growth spurt. The CAO is new (replacing, incidentatlly, my next-door neighbor’s brother, who died last year, after being CAO forever) really forward thinking, and is determined to upgrade the technology at this school. Dude, they don’t even have WIRELESS yet. No joke. He wants laptops, bookless classes, every student to graduate with an electronic portfolio, as he said, holding up my paper resume "this is going to be the old way of finding a job!" [I sent a letter/resume online, as well as my paper copy, and both had links to, you know, MY electronic portfolio . . ] The CAO and I really clicked in our conversation about what isntructional technology means, definitely on the same page with that, and, yeah, definitely clicked.

(Okay, while typing this they called to schedule an interview with the HR director, and she called it ‘the last interview,’ which will be next Tuesday at 9. Did I mention that the posting said they were taking apps til the 26th? you know, tomorrow?)

At the end of meeting all these people, I asked the first (registrar) about compensation, because, hi, it’s important. And her answer was "it depends on the applicant, their education and experience…" which was good enough for me. I was worried about being an admin assistant, with base admin assistant pay, but with IT duties, and clearly, that won’t be the case.  But damn, I hope this HR meeting isn’t "what do you expect to be paid" because I have NO CLUE what I should expect to be paid, and wouldn’t want to overestimate my way out of a job, or undercut myself. And salarywizards, etc, don’t work for me because of what I do and where I live.  I also asked about work/family balance, because it IS mt first job as a mama, and that does matter.  The answer was good for that, too — some schedule flexibility, they understand about kids and daycare and illness. The office I’d be in has two other women, both with kids under 3.  Still not sure where I’d pump, but I’ll figure it out.

Anyway, I’m about 99.99% sure that this job is mine to refuse. I don’t even know what the HR interview would entail, since I met with the important people already, and they’ve pushed me through to HR. I just hope to god it’s not "How much do you want to make?"