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[carolinecrane]

Today I got a very pleasant, dare I say sincere-sounding rejection call from a job I interviewed for over a month ago. The fact that they bothered to call me makes me more apt to believe they really did have a hard time deciding. On the one hand, I'm getting a little weary of all the rejection. On the other hand, I suppose it's nice to hear that I am not completely without merit, professionally speaking? I was starting to wonder, ngl.

Anyway, I'm still not looking, but egret alerted me to an open position via Twitter that I will probably apply for. Chances are they won't even call, considering it's in NYC and it's a high-profile institute, but I have the experience for sure, so what the hell. Worse comes to worse, they won't call. And the best-case scenario is that I will have to scrape up the cash to move to New York after all, which I definitely would not complain about. So we'll see.

Of course there are five houses in my neighborhood for sale -- well, four; one was pulled off the market -- and none are selling, so it's not a great time to be trying to move anyway. You'd think that would be exactly the time I'd get offered a job, but I'm not really counting on fate these days.

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[carolinecrane]

She left a very nice voicemail; it was sweet of her. So yes, it did make me feel better, even though I'd written that job off weeks ago. (It also made me a little teary, but that's probably just hormones.)

I am exactly what the NYC job is looking for. Like, EXACTLY. I submitted my resume and what I hope is a convincing cover letter this morning. It closes on the 26th, so we'll see.

[yabamena]

Aww! hug At least it was a good teary and not a bad teary?

Oh wow. Well, I'm sending good mojo your way!

[egret]

There is a middle-case scenario where you do not get the NY job but are brought up for a f2f interview, which is a tax-deductible trip to NY (job search expenses are deductible). But it would be awesome if you got it.

[carolinecrane]

Both those scenarios are ones I could live with! I would not turn down an excuse to visit the city, that's for sure. Thanks again for passing the listing along. I hadn't seen it posted anywhere (though I haven't been looking) so I would have missed it without you.