You're very lucky!!!

And thank you very much as well.

I am interviewing for jobs where they know little about SEO and for jobs where they are SEO experts.

And therein lies the problem.

What I want is to be surrounded by other experts in my field and have a Director of SEO above me so that I can truly learn the ins and outs by working and collaborating with others in my field and position.

I am the solo in-house expert right now in my job and that makes it very hard on me as I have to figure out every little issue on my own. Collaboration helps with the learning aspect and with finding solutions.

The interview yesterday was with a digital agency that specialized in my field (SEO), and I spoke with the company owner who is a thought leader in the field and who writes "how-to" SEO guides and expert-level articles.

He was concerned about my content strategy approach, but the problem is, I have not been able to implement today's content marketing best practices because my boss sucks (basically), and I gave up on trying to change her ways. She excludes me from the content creation process and has ignored my content development suggestions so far, so I gave up.

So I only can rely on the content marketing or content creation that I've done in the past (for blog posts, articles, and on-site resources).

I have read up on today's best practices for content marketing and thought that I had answered his questions around this accurately.

But the fact that he had concerns about my ability to succeed because of this, well, it just left me feeling suicidal.

I KNOW I can do this, and I KNOW with proper study and application of what I've learned along with my creativity that I can succeed in his company.

But now I fear I won't proceed forward because of this concern of his. And now I also fear he personally won't want to hire me, especially if he finds someone else who has more content development and content marketing experience than I do.

ARGH!!!! This is SO maddening for me. My current position has hindered my progress and success in this business.. or rather, my jerk of a boss has hindered my success.

I know it is silly to become suicidal over a not so great and challenging interview, but that is where my mind went after failing so many times.