The pay cut thing--when I moved from being a professor of Japanese to being a technical writer in Silicon Valley, I pretty much doubled my salary. When I moved to Austin, I cut my salary by 1/3--but I could afford to buy a house here, and it was much easier to meet people I like. And now I'm making what I made in Silly Valley 8 years ago.
Pay cuts are harder than huge raises, but the REAL question is what do you get out of the situation. There are tremendous advantages to being part of a university--you can take classes and they have a good library, among other things. Universities usually have pretty good benefits and are fairly flexible places to work. Those don't have dollar signs attached to them, but they should.
I think you're smart to put it aside and just go into the interview and Be There. That's always worked well for me.
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Date: 2007-10-20 12:57 am (UTC)Pay cuts are harder than huge raises, but the REAL question is what do you get out of the situation. There are tremendous advantages to being part of a university--you can take classes and they have a good library, among other things. Universities usually have pretty good benefits and are fairly flexible places to work. Those don't have dollar signs attached to them, but they should.
I think you're smart to put it aside and just go into the interview and Be There. That's always worked well for me.
Oh, and the other thing I used to do was listen to Fred Small's "I Will Stand Fast" in the car on the way to the interview. It spoke to my PTSD. http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/fred+small/i+will+stand+fast_20344075.html