I made the mistake of showing up a day early for an interview. Should I just call it on this job now?

The interview was scheduled a week out in advance and somehow I got the days mixed up. I went in and one of the ladies said no worries and she had the made the mistake before too.

I am already kind of deciding if I have a chance at this interview. I explained to her before I have the interview if 9 units of Drug and Alcohol education is enough for this job and I also don't have any direct drug and alcohol counselling experience. They mentioned they wanted some one working on getting drug and alcohol counselling certified and I mentioned I could do that and get the four other units I need at night in an email. She told me in an email that she felt I met the experience requirement, I think she meant education. She then said it will come down to interview, experience, and skills. I've had a bunch of interviews lately where they take in alot of people and then they really already wanted the one with alot of experience and since this is a bit of drive for this interview I wanted to clarify they are interested in me.

I've also been running into some jobs where the workplace is VERY political. I am a white caucasian male and the places I've been applying at are really looking for a female or minority to meet their hiring requirements. I went for one job interview for a school librarian and they asked me what Latino authors or books catered to Latino students would I suggest? I had no clue and felt that wasn't appropriate question especially for a school of 200 students with probably 10 Latino students. Less Latino students than the conservative small town high school I attended! I asked my Latino questions that friends and they said they were offended. They said they like books everyone else likes and it doesn't matter if it's by a Latino author or a Latino hero or heroine are in the book. My point with this, is I am just hoping to avoid interviewing at highly political environments. Where my time is wasted.

I have a year working with school aged children, a degree in a related field, 12 units of ECE units, and am highly qualified but no matter what I seem to do some people just want to play the political game rather it be to get more federal funding by saying they employ x,y, and z. Or people just don't like white males. Ironically I've been contacted by recruiters for certain preschool programs for jobs and I tell them flat out please don't bother me, I'm not interested. Again, I feel these preschools care less about how unqualified I am and more concerned about my sex.

Going back to the current job. The director is a Caucasian male and the person below him is a Caucasian female. However, the job did say bilingual preffered and I told her that I am also not bilingual. The position has been open for a while and they need two people. I don't know how desperate they are for some one and they haven't done many interviews.

Should I still go to tomorrow's interview? Or did I ruin my chances?

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