I have a job.

[cjsmith]

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.)

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Cool! Now I know how I missed that; I remember a chunk of time around then when I didn't catch up with LJ.

How do you like it? Are you working with good folk? (Anybody from your old team?) Doing stuff you enjoy?

[wcg.livejournal.com]

It's good work, though it's not astronomy. The team is made up of pretty good people. The only one I knew from FUSE days was the guy who is the Program Manager for this project. He used to be the PM for the NASA Low Earth Orbit Terminal project, and FUSE uses a LEO-T ground station in Puerto Rico. So I got to know him as a voice on the phone. Until I came to this project I'd never met him in the flesh.

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.