I just completed my first interview (over the phone) and I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to get my armpits to stop sweating and hands to stop shaking.
I liken it to the feeling you get when you almost get in a car accident.
I interviewed for a firm in Costa Mesa, CA to be an assistant in store design... THREE BLOCKS FROM THE BEACH! Looking at the company portfolio I found they do contemporary store design for really big retail chains like Guess?, Home Depot Design Centers (not the big box store) and Lucky (jeans).
I can't imagine how awesome it would be to design for a client who is more worried about the integrity of the design than how much they can save by using stucco in place of fake brick.
I think the interview went really well. They were at ease enough to crack a couple jokes with me and I asked a couple questions they thought were great questions to ask even though they may have been out of place in an interview (I asked about one interviewers wife and the weather there today).
I was lacking in my skill level of the drafting program Revit and have no real commercial experience but one of the interviewers was telling the other that my multifamily experience and level of detailing in those projects would translate easily to commercial applications.
I'm so excited I can't sit still!