I had a phone interview with a company out of Iowa yesterday and an in-person interview with a company 20 miles from my hubby today!

I would probably fit in with the first company better. They do more applications programming vs. hard core programming like the second company wants me to do (I've never done object oriented programming before...ssshhh. I told them I dabbled). The first company asked if I could move to Iowa, and I said I couldn't. I asked if that was a deal breaker, and he said not necessarily, so fingers crossed on that one! He did say that for that particular position it probably wouldn't work for telecommuting, but he said that their team of 20 has 6 people who work off-site, so he was going to try to find me something, if not that particular job opening.

The first company didn't ask about my "salary requirements" but the second one did. I told them what I was making and that is was costing me $20,000 just to commute and live there half the week, so if they matched my salary - $20,000 I would consider it. They said that was a lot higher than what they were thinking, but they are going to work on what they can do. (what did I say about any job around here paying me 1/3 of what I currently make?)

The second company said they would let me know by Monday or Tuesday. The head boss will be out on Wednesday - Friday, so if I need to negotiate, I will have to wait for him to get back. That may give me some breathing room so I can contact the first company and see what they can do.