A Watched Pot Never Boils

Or in this case a watched phone never rings.

I have been keeping quiet on something pretty big the past few weeks. For those who are new to my blog, when I am not playing stay-at-home-mommy to my 3 kids I am a freelance writer/public relations consultant. I have been struggling the past few months with what I will do when my youngest starts kindy in the fall. Then out of nowhere this amazing opportunity came up.

So for the past two weeks I have been through two interviews and a writing/research assessment for a 15 - 20 hours per week marketing/pr project that has the potential to become practically full-time within the next 6 months. The biggest kicker of it all, the job is completely from home. Just like I am doing now. I will also still be able to keep and work with my existing clients.

I have been told that it has been narrowed down between myself and another woman. I received a call yesterday on my voice mail saying that the final assessments and recommendations have been given to the President and he will be making a decision today or tomorrow.

This would be perfect on so many levels.

• It would allow me to not have to go find more clients because between this on-going project and the existing ones I would have plenty to do and still be able to have the flexibility to play SAHM to the kids.
  
• It would be a steady income per week rather than the sporadic project work I do now.
  
• It is totally flexible. I can do whatever I need to do to get my projects done. So basically it will be the exact same as what I do now.
  
• The work sounds awesome. It would be exactly the same stuff I do now but for a completely different industry. Plus I would get to work with more web work than I do now.
  
• The person I would be working with sounds awesome. And she works from home as well so she understands the issues that come up with trying to work from home (can we say my wireless router that keeps blinking out lately?). In fact everyone I have spoken with sounds pretty cool.
• Timing wise I feel like this may be what I am supposed to do. I post about my dilemmas and this falls into my lap. A sign? Maybe... I sure hope so.
  

I wasn't going to say anything. I hate rejection and even more so I hate knowing that people know I have been rejected. But I have decided that I need all the good thoughts I can get.

So fingers crossed that I receive a good call today or tomorrow. If not, well then I guess it is back to figuring out what to do when Sam goes to kindy. (It would be to your benefit that I get a good call, otherwise there will be lots of beating a dead horse entries. LOL)

"Within Two Weeks"

That's how long it will be before I know if I got the freelance position or not. Argh... I hate waiting.

I allowed myself two hours to get there. And thank goodness I did because there was an accident on I-40 and I managed to get there only 5 minutes early. I parked and went in to what I thought was the entrance. Instead it happened to be the back door into the owner/boss/head honcho's office. Great first impression huh? At least he found it humorous. So after my accidental meeting with the boss, I met with two gals from creative and marketing. They were very nice –– and very young. It is weird starting to be the "seasoned" one.

I am cautiously optimistic. I think things went well. I answered the questions well, I showed my portfolio and conversation came easy. I did ask if I get bonus points being on a Mac since that is what their office uses. The only downside I see is that most of my experience is in agriculture and the heavy machinery industry. I have done a few medical assignments. But as I told them, a good writer can study research and adapt to the product and audience. (Told you I answered the questions well!)

The position would be perfect. The company is an advertising and design firm exclusively. They do not have a copywriter on staff so they are looking for a person to work with on all writing and editing assignments that may come through. They already have one project (a pretty cool one!) for the end of October and more down the pipeline. I could do everything from home and I love their client list –– some animal clients, pharmaceutical clients, clothing clients and even key man insurance clients (I had to look up what exactly that type of insurance was).

So hopefully in two weeks I will know something. I know they are interviewing other people as well. And as Matt says, if it works out it would be awesome. If not, then there are plenty of other things out there.