Strike one
Well, Ruritania didn’t make me an offer. Their other candidate had more library experience, they said, which makes perfect sense to me; it’s what I suspected might happen.
I was pretty lucky to be in the top two, really. Five years from now, as I think I said here before, I’ll be their perfect candidate—and by all appearances that’s what they’ve hired: me with a few years’ experience.
Onwards, then…
ETA: A comment via IM that made me chuckle: “No matter how good we become at something there is always going to be someone better, and usually they’ll turn up wherever it causes us the most inconvenience.”
Ain’t that the truth.