should i? shouldn't i?

So, it's 11 and I still have blog mock ups to work on. I'm tired. I'm still sick (this f'ing cold needs to vamoos already), but I am so very happy about the results of today. I have been hard pressed to say anything because I am so damned scared to jinx the good juju. I figure that no one reads my blog anyway, or well, a select few, so I guess it's OK to unfurl my results.

I had an informational interview with Ziba (a VERY large design firm in Portland) that also has remote offices in San Diego, Shanghai and Tokyo. They cater to really large clients like Nike, Philips and Microsoft just to name a few. In fact, the Wacom Intuous tablet that is sitting on my desk beside my keyboard is a Ziba design. They're big. I thought too big for me and so I never got the nerve to contact them. Instead, another person I interviewed with in December passed along my resume and acted as a referral for me. Boy am I grateful (I am off to personally deliver a bottle of wine tomorrow and properly express my appreciation to said referrer). Grateful to even have the opportunity to step foot into the ultra modern, creatively charged powerhouse that made me, as my favorite Aussie TV meanie stylist says, gob-smacked. The wierd part is, that once I got upstairs, which sort of feels like you are going to heaven (or what the commercial picture of heaven is anyway) with the floor to ceiling windows, clinically white walls and vast open space, I wasn't nervous at all. I was extremely comfortable. And as soon as I met my interviewer, a lovely senior communications designer, I was totally and utterly at ease. She gave me a tour of their breathtaking and fairly new HDQ. I was thoroughly impressed not just with the space, but with the floating energy within the space. After a really informal and wonderful exchange of information we discussed where I see myself going.

Where am I going? Didn't I just get here? And since they don't have anything open in the design sector anyway and since my work just isn't at the level to compete, the idea about a position that is available in client relations came up. Bingo! Something that I am extremely well suited for and with a design background makes me valuable to both the clients and the design team. My interviewer offered the promise of a good review to the the Recruiting Director and so, we'll see where next steps take me and if there may be room for me in heaven (loaded, right?).