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April 21, 2004   

So, I have a couple of exciting interviews lined up. I am supposed to meet two recruiters tomorrow and Friday, but more importantly, I’m going back for a second interview with unnamed company on Friday, and for an interview with unnamed company #2 that my fiancée works at on Monday. The unnamed company #1 would be exciting because I would be working with people I had worked with before, in a reasonably large and well-supported team, working in an area that is new to me, but with products types that I’m very familiar with. The unnamed company #2 is exciting because it is a bigger, more stable company, with a lot of benefits and protection that comes from being a part of a bigger organization. They already have good practices in place, so I don’t have to worry about someone with bad processes messing everything up.

Anyway, this means that I’m turning down the offer from the company I interviewed with last week. A part of me is really nervous, but after spending so much time with it, I’m as sure as I can be that I’m making the right decision. It wasn’t just the commute or worries about the future of the business; it was my worry at being one of the most senior people in the department. Everyone has had experiences with managers who were not technical enough to quickly understand why things were not going as planned in their teams. I feel that this job would have taken me more into a managerial role, which would undermine my need to acquire more knowledge from more senior people at this state of my career. It’s not that I’m not absolutely positive that I’d be up to the challenge; it’s that I want to be more technical and learn things more in depth at this stage.

Either that, or I’m just talking myself out of it. I sure hope that’s not the case.

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