I have a meeting in 30 minutes with a couple people from the hospital I work for. They are trying to do this project, and wanted to hire an outside company to do it. This outside comany wants to charge a large amount of money. So because this project is in an area where I have a bit of background work experience, they want to see if I can do it instead. Since I'm already a hospital employee, it would technically be free.
Here's the problem: I did interface design work, and I think they're wanting me to do background programming work...in a programming language that I don't even know. My immediate supervisor told me that it's no big deal if I can't do it, she just thought it would be worth a shot to see if I could do ANY of it to save some money. But the CIO came to me this morning and it sounds like he's pretty much counting on me to pull through.
In any case, I'm probably gonna have to tell everyone that they wasted time holding this meeting, and that I can't do it for them - at least not in any reasonable amount of time. I am really worried about the reaction. Not that I think I'm gonna get fired, but I feel like I'm gonna let a lot of people down, and that really sucks.
I could use some prayers for guidance and courage and to not be so sad about this.