Ok, my turn: job interview tomorrow!
Could use some mo, please 
It's the phone interview portion (step 1) for a project mgmt gig at a small insurance company.
In-person's are Thurs/Fri and then a 'formality' meeting with the CIO early next week.
I realized - and have kicked myself in the ass daily - that I should have JUMPED on that job offer that I had in April and didn't take.
Exciting? No, not particularly, but it's what I know how to do, and what I do well. And it would have gotten me the hell out of here!
So, this gig is the same type of thing which will probably bore me silly in a year but I need to buy time to come up with a long-term plan to relocate which includes exploring where I want to go, saving dough, and looking into other career options.
This contracting gig isn't cutting it - I know absolutely nothing about app dev/dba (and told him so in the interview!) and am not wired for it. I'm much more a project/organizing/interacting type of person and the thought of learning this code-shit drives me nuts.
I have literally spent 35 of 40 hours every week for the last 8 months surfing the web here. Nothing else I can do. Not a human being around (except for the Tea Party nutbag who sits slurping his coffee and moaning/grunting all day with his smelly bare feet emananting from the cube next door).
So, yeah. I could use some mo. Thanks! 
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Mojo, positive energy, whatever it takes to free you from your crappy contracting gig onto a stepping stone forward on your path! 
Hope this manifests for you. Sometimes boring is good, especially when you need to do other things on the side (exploring location & other career options).
Don't hold back, you never know what might be behind Door #2 or where it might lead! At least it might not have smelly feet or teabags behind it! LOL
Sending you good vibes. Let us know how it goes!!
It was pretty intense - "Please give me examples of times in your career you've worked within the specific stages of the SDLC."
Can't imagine what the 'in person' will be like. 
But if I get it, it will be SO worth it! Back on a career-ish path, doing what I like to do & am good at every day (documenting, training, organizing), pulling down excellent money, and working for a small-ish company less than 3 miles from home!! Breathing room to plan for the future! YAY!!!
Interesting tidbit ... my first job here in Indy in 1998 paid $18,500 a year. In 15 years, should I get this job, I will have almost quadrupled that. Insane. Looking back on it, how the hell did I (we, actually, I'm a single mom) survive on $18k/yr? Goddess, people are so underpaid in this country. 
You survived this and probably came across very well.
Okay, fingers still crossed. Let us know how the next phase goes, because 3 miles away sounds like a great commute to me! 
Maybe you won't want to relocate or change careers after all. 
I'm not nervous, and that makes me nervous.
Knowing how she hit me with the tech questions yesterday, I can only imagine her getting even deeper into geek-speak at tomorrow's meeting. There's only so much I can do on the fly.
But oh well. It's gonna be what it's gonna be.
