Wow! Someone loves me

I went to a job fair. It was for all one company. I've been to those things before... people eyeing eachother from both sides of the table. The job seekers are trying to sniff out the "good" jobs and the people offering the "bad" jobs are trying to sniff out just how desparate the seekers are. Well, somebody has to do the "bad" jobs, but I really think it should be interns. So there was some sniffing around, I'm thinking yeh I could do these jobs but would I really want to and I bet they pay crap. And they're thinking oh god not another overqualified techie. We don't need magadolicious software design skills here, all we really need is someone to take duplicate addresses out of our database. On the other hand, the overqualified techies don't have to be spoon fed every little thing so we'd really prefer them if we can get them to work for this birdseed we're putting out.

Anyway I was in yet another line, and some of the guys who weren't getting many takers at their tables were triaging the line, and when one of them got to me he took one look at my resume and pulled me to the front of the line. He liked me. I liked him. And so I went through a series of interviews and I may just get offered this job. I guess I have to accept that I won't get one of the really cool megapaying engineering jobs ever again. That's the price I pay for taking the "Mommy" detour. This job pays about 60% in adjusted dollars of what I was earning when I left the workforce to be a mommy. But it has possibilities for upward motion and it would require a few brain cells, especially at first. So we shall see.