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chanter1944) wrote2010-11-17 09:28 pm
chanter1944) wrote2010-11-17 09:28 pm
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the results of that bossmeeting
Well, the meeting happened earlier today. It went... about a hundred times better than I expected it to, honestly. I left with the major warm and fuzzies, not the least of which came from hearing that I, you know, am liked around there and people want to keep me! :D Yes, I'm horribly insecure. Yes, I know it. Anyway. The way things are at the moment, she's looking into what it'd take to extend my contract, and that involves a slog through DVR rules and whatever else at the start. Bleh. It's a matter of figuring out if DVR will extend my contract, if the office itself would have to approve me staying on, or what. I'll know more in the next week or so, and whatever happens, I'm secure until mid January.
She's also going to talk to a friend of hers at the UW who puts a newsletter together and might need someone to tell the more human story alongside the standard bioscience info. Might being the operative word; she isn't sure he does. She's going to ask, though, and that's incredibly, incredibly sweet of her. Dang, but I have a cooool boss. :)
Something else was said this morning that about made me fall off my chair, and good gosh, my expression must've been priceless. She thought that I should seriously look into the communications department at UW-Madison.
"Are you serious?" said I. "That would be *amazing!*"
I'll admit this now. I miss university faculty culture. I fit in in the English and foreign language departments at Whitewater. I don't miss being a student, but the atmosphere on the fourth floor of the communication building was something else. All the professors' offices were up there, and as soon as you hit the top of the staircase you could tell the difference. There was a telltale smell of dust and pleasant perfume and freshly-printed paper and hot coffee, for starters, and everyone up there was pretty much going to be a geek in their respective field, and everybody knew it. No one seemed to resent it, either. It was very, very welcoming for a nerd like me. I almost stayed at Whitewater for grad school because of that department. I know what was talked about this morning is a different sort of communications, but in the course of the discussion, cross-cultural comm/international relations came up, and good gosh. If I could get anywhere near the department of international relations at Madison as a communications person... siiiigh. To quote Esther, stars in my eyes forever. If that department is anything like Whitewater's English one...
Dream job, much? <3
I will totally be investigating this. It may end up happening in steps; if anything comes of bosslady talking to her friend, turning into something else, turning into something else. Or it may happen an entirely different way. Who knows? But I am totally investigating this. The idea's there, and it's sharding awesome, and it's there well before my current contract ends. Must update resume and get clip file together. Yes.
In short: Things are looking about a hundred times brighter than they were two days ago, and holy cow is it ever a great feeling.
She's also going to talk to a friend of hers at the UW who puts a newsletter together and might need someone to tell the more human story alongside the standard bioscience info. Might being the operative word; she isn't sure he does. She's going to ask, though, and that's incredibly, incredibly sweet of her. Dang, but I have a cooool boss. :)
Something else was said this morning that about made me fall off my chair, and good gosh, my expression must've been priceless. She thought that I should seriously look into the communications department at UW-Madison.
"Are you serious?" said I. "That would be *amazing!*"
I'll admit this now. I miss university faculty culture. I fit in in the English and foreign language departments at Whitewater. I don't miss being a student, but the atmosphere on the fourth floor of the communication building was something else. All the professors' offices were up there, and as soon as you hit the top of the staircase you could tell the difference. There was a telltale smell of dust and pleasant perfume and freshly-printed paper and hot coffee, for starters, and everyone up there was pretty much going to be a geek in their respective field, and everybody knew it. No one seemed to resent it, either. It was very, very welcoming for a nerd like me. I almost stayed at Whitewater for grad school because of that department. I know what was talked about this morning is a different sort of communications, but in the course of the discussion, cross-cultural comm/international relations came up, and good gosh. If I could get anywhere near the department of international relations at Madison as a communications person... siiiigh. To quote Esther, stars in my eyes forever. If that department is anything like Whitewater's English one...
Dream job, much? <3
I will totally be investigating this. It may end up happening in steps; if anything comes of bosslady talking to her friend, turning into something else, turning into something else. Or it may happen an entirely different way. Who knows? But I am totally investigating this. The idea's there, and it's sharding awesome, and it's there well before my current contract ends. Must update resume and get clip file together. Yes.
In short: Things are looking about a hundred times brighter than they were two days ago, and holy cow is it ever a great feeling.
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