Old Soul, Young Heart

I am so relieved that Tuesday and Wednesday are over! I was dreading both days--but mostly Wednesday. So Tuesday I had the interview at Bradley. I would love to work there. The building where my office would be is beautiful and brand new; it just opened last year. The people seem great... really down to earth and just generally nice. The actual job, however, I'm not sure about. It is exactly what I did at Advocate BroMenn and I'm afraid that it wouldn't be much of a challenge and/or all that related to what I just spent two years getting a master's degree in. I think I would enjoy it, but I'd be afraid that once I want to move on that I won't have any real professional student affairs work and that I'd be pigeon-holing myself into administrative work. The interview itself went pretty well, I think. They seemed impressed by me, but it's always hard to tell. I think she said that I should hear on Friday (tomorrow!) what their decision is. I would definit...

I got the official "no" from Heartland. I'm not surprised and I feel as though I prepared myself for it. Candace left a really sweet message for me as she was breaking my heart (haha)--she said that they discussed me at length and that I did a great job and have a lot to offer. She said that I should "hang in there" because in the future there will be other jobs at Heartland and in Recruitment and that she would love for me to be in the pool of applicants for those positions. I don't really know what that means, but I don't feel terrible about not getting this job, even though I really, really wanted it. I know something will work out. I got another call for an interview today. This one is at Bradley; it's an administrative assistant position for the women's basketball program. I'm overqualified for it and the job responsibilities sound exactly like what I did at Advocate BroMenn. I wonder if it wouldn't be much of a challenge for me a...