My whole life I’ve been told that I’m a good to great writer. My grades reflected it, and in college I placed so high on the upper division writing assessment that I was able to skip the writing workshop that everyone else had to take. That being said, I applied for this job, did a timed writing sample exercise for them, and the interview went well. I didn’t get the job. I met with one of the panel members today to discuss my interview and what happened, apparently my writing sample was only “fair.” I was nervous when I did the exercise but I really don’t know what to think. I took his criticism to heart, and have another interview today that will probably need a writing sample, so let’s see how this turns out.