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I have a job.
I signed offer papers at Company S. I'll call them that for now -- I doubt they're in stealth mode, but I'll be cautious until I ask. This is a small company with several people I've worked with before. I'm looking forward to working with them again.
Then I stressed myself out inordinately over saying no to the others. Gawd, I hate saying no. These opportunities looked good, the people seemed competent AND nice, and I could tell both places were shorthanded until they made a hire. Some of these guys had worked pretty hard to get my interview process(es) to run smoothly. I didn't want to say no to them! But I'm only one person, and I had to pick only one place. Aaaaaa!
Now I'm mostly done with those phone calls. One HR rep at Company P has been hard to reach, but she's the only one I haven't called yet. I've also talked with the engineers directly. Everyone has been incredibly gracious about it. I'm relieved, I'm impressed with everyone's professionalism, and I'm extra wistful about having to say no to good folk.
Now that I've done all this my mood is much better. I really was stressing out about those phone calls. I think that was just as difficult as making the decision in the first place, which is goofy if you ask me! Why do little things have the power to get to me so much?
Anyway. At least it's done, or darn close, and my life is much better now.
Now I get to figure out what to do with my remaining four days of freedom. (The weekend's taken -- a big square dance gig.)
Then I stressed myself out inordinately over saying no to the others. Gawd, I hate saying no. These opportunities looked good, the people seemed competent AND nice, and I could tell both places were shorthanded until they made a hire. Some of these guys had worked pretty hard to get my interview process(es) to run smoothly. I didn't want to say no to them! But I'm only one person, and I had to pick only one place. Aaaaaa!
Now I'm mostly done with those phone calls. One HR rep at Company P has been hard to reach, but she's the only one I haven't called yet. I've also talked with the engineers directly. Everyone has been incredibly gracious about it. I'm relieved, I'm impressed with everyone's professionalism, and I'm extra wistful about having to say no to good folk.
Now that I've done all this my mood is much better. I really was stressing out about those phone calls. I think that was just as difficult as making the decision in the first place, which is goofy if you ask me! Why do little things have the power to get to me so much?
Anyway. At least it's done, or darn close, and my life is much better now.
Now I get to figure out what to do with my remaining four days of freedom. (The weekend's taken -- a big square dance gig.)
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Four days, tick tick tick tick.
So speaking of jobs, is this week better than last Friday was?
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hurray!
go CJ! :)
Re: hurray!
(thanks!)
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I've lost track of your job situation. What's up?
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Last week (on the 18th) we had our first Technical Interface Meeting with our NOAA contract officer and his loyal minions. We presented a 150+ page powerpoint presentation (NOAA's requirement) about what we're doing and what we're planning to do. Got some nice attaboys at the end of the day. I was caught up in preparation for that over most of the past three weeks.
Now I'm back to actually being able to do some real work on the study. Right now I'm writing up text explanations of the functional processes in the GOES-R satellite operations control center.
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How do you like it? Are you working with good folk? (Anybody from your old team?) Doing stuff you enjoy?
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I've been learning a lot, which is good. It's been kinda like grad school, in that I study a lot and write a lot. But I get paid much more for doing it.
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