Once I got in the interview room, a lot of my anxiety started to ease. I know, in a general work way, both interviewers, and have worked with them for going on two years in varying ways (One has a rep for being a stern hardass, but I've never thought so, and today did not change that. As I started talking, I remembered that I tend to interview well, once I get past that initial discomfort and fight or flight feeling. I don't think I was as across the board technical as they would have wanted (I can't debug Unix commands or push out changes via terminal services on the fly), but I think my decade of retail experience is something few others can claim, and it helped. I answered the "official" technical questions well; they barely seemed technical at all to me. When asked to explain ethernet, I was just getting wound up to talk about conductivity, resistance, circuitry and how it all affects through put, but paused to ask, "How deep into the physics do you want me to go?" (They just wanted me to compare it to other technologies. When I said, "What, like token ring?" the reputed hard ass smiled.)
At the very end, after I'd asked my questions, there was one final question. "What would you do if they asked you to take your earrings out?" Without pausing to think, I said, "I did it for seven years at my last job. I don't imagine it will be a problem." As I realized what I'd said, I began to wonder what that meant, and if I was selling myself out, for what price, and at what cost?
The interview, though, is over. I think I did well, though I'm not sure how well I want to do. I don't know that I'll be offered a position, and if not, that's OK. I think it will be more potentially problematic for me if I am, but that's an issue for later, if at all.
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