Nervous wreck

I’ve been a nervous wreck since my interview on Wednesday. Deep inside I was hoping that I’d hear something by Friday, but Friday was here and gone and there were no news from anyone. I thought “surely they’ll meet no later than Thursday and make a decision and then notify the lucky applicant on Friday.” So if I had to guess, they notified some other applicant on Friday and now are waiting to hear back from that person and see if he or she wants the job.

I may be wrong, after all it took them a while to select me for the in-person interview. I personally felt really good about this face-to-face interview but then who knows if my answers contained the content that they were looking for. My interview with the search committee went well if you ask me, but I left the room without a sense of what they thought of me. In fact, at the end of that first interview, a comment was made about a position that may available in the future in case I didn’t get the job. Were they trying to tell me that they didn’t like me that much? My next meeting was with the director of the department with whom I think I got along very well and we agreed on a lot of issues facing their department and their potential effects and resolutions.

Everyone around me is acting as if I will get the job offer, I am not so sure. And it’s weird because I’m normally a very optimistic person, but maybe it is because I want this job so badly that I am trying not to get excited because I know it will really suck if I am rejected. It’s a job in a department that is the best of its kind in the United States, they have visitors constantly going there wanting to see how they operate. It is also in a city and area that I like and it’d be awesome to move there. So getting that job would be a real treat both professionally and personally. But the wait is killing me.

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