A ray of hope?

I have a job interview scheduled for Thursday morning. Not with any of the opportunities I've already written about, but with a new organization. It's a job I found and applied to immediately on Thursday morning. Within three hours, I had a call from the HR department asking for an interview this week.

So it's easily meeting my standard for synchronicity. I mean, that's a mind-boggling pace for an academic institution. But I'm not really that excited. If anything, my emotions are ranging from dull to dread.

At first, I was excited about the prospect of an interview, any interview and another job, any job. But as I've thought through this particular job and discussed it with Papa D, it seems like it won't be a good move.

It has good benefits (including incredible vacation/holiday schedule), but a serious drop in salary. It is either a similar commute time or longer (will test this on Thursday). Those tradeoffs could be manageable, if the job and work environment would be an improvement. But those are two big IFs.

I have no idea what kind of job will make me happier. This is a writing job, and I have enjoyed writing over the last six months. Having a writing job on the resume could help me in the future. It looks like the work might be fairly diverse from day to day, which is very important to me.

The big question is about the work environment. I've heard some scuttlebutt that the VP is difficult to work with, but how much would that affect me?

So I'm going to the interview, trying to learn a little more, see how I feel. Maybe this is the chance I've been waiting for. But maybe not.