Michele, thanks. The position is within my department & it's been described as "hybrid" -- one would supervise seven people while also continuing to work on writing assignments alongside them. It's a step up toward being a manager.
I'm far less confident after my 4 PM interview with my manager's manager. He's an Englishman who has emigrated to San Jose, quite analytical, cool & reserved, not good at making small talk, perhaps once painfully shy & more interested in things than people. I am not sure what sort of impression I made on him. I found him very difficult to read & being interviewed over the phone helped not at all. I felt like a voluble, overemotional, oversharing & breathy female American -- all the things that he is not. He may favor another job candidate, a dept member in England, whom we met during his office tour & visit to Egham. That gentleman -- whom I like & respect, actually -- is subdued & wry & with a dry wit. I think they would be more simpatico together.
And now I must stop this second-guessing; sometimes I have really good intuition about these things but sometimes my imagination runs away with me & I see things that are not there. Second-guessing only makes me crazy.
The interviewing is done.
It is what it is.
(BTW, my next rant will be about how much I hate the phrase that I just used, "It is what it is," which I see & hear EVERYWHERE. It sounds wonderfully wise & practical & almost Zenlike, but it MEANS NOTHING if you really examine it because it can mean anything you want to mean. It's like punctuation now, just a meaningless piece of filler that people add to their pronouncements. I write it here with a certain sense of resignation: I've done what I can, as far as interviewing goes. Thy Will Be Done.)
across the cultural divide, saef.
Everything works here, I have hooks to hang stuff on, a clothesline for wet stuff, etc. etc.
