![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
So, I had my interview for the EIC gig for the SPFH this afternoon. Didn't get the job. And I'm actually relieved--even glad. Most of why I applied in the first place was that I'd heard that most of the people I'd trusted to take the position weren't going to be around, and that worried me. I wanted to make sure that someone at least semi-competent was going to do the job. And, well, semi-competent--that's me.
So I was pleasantly surprised to see two other applicants there whose judgment I trust. I don't know one quite as well, but the person who eventually got the job is someone I worked with on the fall staff, and I think the paper will be in very good hands. I should be able to get some sort of position on her editing staff, and I'll have no problems working for her at all. Not sure whether I'll angle for managing or a section ed or what, but in any case, I feel pretty good about how this went down. And I'll probably also apply for the EIC for the paper's summer term launch issue (a special issue that comes out in late June) so that'll be a good resume item to have.
Strangely, I was actually nervous in the interview. I've done a zillion interviews before, and it's not like anything huge was riding on this, so I'm not sure why I tweaked out. Might've been that I was sitting at the end of a long table with the whole publications board at the other end, staring at me like I was on trial or something. The questions themselves didn't faze me--good questions for which I had good answers--and I knew most of the people on the board, so I guess it was just the whole feeling like a criminal thing.
At any rate, next term should be a breeze for me, now. Found out my advanced reporting class is 90% about learning how to use spreadsheets and databases and maps to analyze data. *koff* The funniest part is that the prof I'm taking it from--the same guy I've had for three other classes--is a big technophobe, and he's never taught that class before, so he's going into all this pretty blind. He actually asked me to lead some of the class discussions. Heh.
The only struggle will be trying to deal with the transportation issue. All my classes are in the one building, but it's virtually inaccessible, especially now that they've broken ground on a new building project and have blocked off several of the routes I used to use to get there. Not sure how I'm going to manage this, but I guess we'll see.
Now I just need to get through the last three weeks of this nasty term, and I'm home free.
So I was pleasantly surprised to see two other applicants there whose judgment I trust. I don't know one quite as well, but the person who eventually got the job is someone I worked with on the fall staff, and I think the paper will be in very good hands. I should be able to get some sort of position on her editing staff, and I'll have no problems working for her at all. Not sure whether I'll angle for managing or a section ed or what, but in any case, I feel pretty good about how this went down. And I'll probably also apply for the EIC for the paper's summer term launch issue (a special issue that comes out in late June) so that'll be a good resume item to have.
Strangely, I was actually nervous in the interview. I've done a zillion interviews before, and it's not like anything huge was riding on this, so I'm not sure why I tweaked out. Might've been that I was sitting at the end of a long table with the whole publications board at the other end, staring at me like I was on trial or something. The questions themselves didn't faze me--good questions for which I had good answers--and I knew most of the people on the board, so I guess it was just the whole feeling like a criminal thing.
At any rate, next term should be a breeze for me, now. Found out my advanced reporting class is 90% about learning how to use spreadsheets and databases and maps to analyze data. *koff* The funniest part is that the prof I'm taking it from--the same guy I've had for three other classes--is a big technophobe, and he's never taught that class before, so he's going into all this pretty blind. He actually asked me to lead some of the class discussions. Heh.
The only struggle will be trying to deal with the transportation issue. All my classes are in the one building, but it's virtually inaccessible, especially now that they've broken ground on a new building project and have blocked off several of the routes I used to use to get there. Not sure how I'm going to manage this, but I guess we'll see.
Now I just need to get through the last three weeks of this nasty term, and I'm home free.
