I just realized that I forgot to write a blog post yesterday. Have I mentioned that I'm crazy busy without a job? This isn't what I expected, but I'm pretty sure I'm alright with it.
I had an interview yesterday with a recruiter and that meeting made me realize some things I think most of us have trouble gauging. While we were going through my resume and talking about what I do in the course of a week or so, she said "So you worked full time, go to school in the evenings, help the Scouts and do things at church and then you have a family that you spend time with? Do you sleep?" I didn't think I was quite that busy. I mean, yes, I'm busy but I don't feel like I'm insanely busy. I just chalk it up to the fact that we don't watch TV, which leaves me with some extra time. I just assume that everyone works as hard as I do, which they apparently don't.
The other thing that I'm not particularly good at gauging about myself is how much I'm worth in the marketplace. The recruiter and I were talking about salary requirements and I said I was looking for something roughly close to what I was earning at Ancestry. She looked over my resume, at the other information I've sent her and said, "Okay, but for someone with your experience and skills, I think you're worth more than that." I'm thinking that I probably have no idea how much I'm worth on the market because I don't have to set the price very often, and the last time I did, I didn't have quite the same set of skills.
It's nice to be able to get feedback like that from someone who sees all kinds of resumes and meets with tons of people on a regular basis.
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