Interviews...

Since my last post, I got two interviews! It happened really fast, and I'm kinda still in shock.

I had an interview on Monday with Gibbs Smith Publishers who are based out of Layton. It went pretty well and I have a new random question for the interview files... "Are you allergic to cats?" This publishing company is based out of an old barn and they have several office pets that kind of prowl around and wander in and out. It seems like a pretty nice place to work, except that it's only 20 minutes from my parents' house so I don't know if I could justify moving out if they hire me. The interview seemed to go well; I started talking with the executive vice president in charge of editing and she made me spell accommodate (I don't remember if I put in two ms or not...) and we talked about my resume. She basically went over everything I put in it, very thorough. Then she brought in the managing editor and she made me tell her how to use an elipse, how to use a dash, and how to use a colon. They finished by telling me they would like to email me a document for me to edit as a trial.

Then today, I had a phone interview with Ernst & Young, a financial company in Denver (yay). I've never had a phone interview before so that was really weird. I was probably not as prepared with knowledge about the company and position as I should have been but it seemed to go pretty well. They said they would let me know by next week if they wanted to bring me in for an interview in person. And she asked the dreaded question about expected salary. I never know what to say so I kind of ballparked around 30000 and she said that they were probably going to be paying in the mid to high 20s and she didn't want to put me through the interview process if I couldn't work with that. I hope I didn't mess up because of that, but on the other hand, that doesn't seem like very much money...

What are you guys doing about the salary question? Has anybody even asked you yet? Am I expecting too much?

See you guys on the 30th at Chelsi's reception :D