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Cathlete
Well, I'm still waiting for the final offer from Maytag on the job in Iowa. They're supposed to call me on Monday. But this past Thursday, I was contacted by a local recruiter who has a job at one of the global banks and he thinks they'll be interested in me too. The money would be almost as much as at the Iowa job, and we wouldn't have to move away.
Obviously the bank thing isn't a sure thing. I haven't even been asked to interview yet. But something about the Iowa thing just wasn't sitting right with me. I wasn't comfortable with it and the thought of taking it just didn't make me excited. I should be excited about something like that, don't you think? I kept thinking about silly things...like how I promised my daughter guinea pigs for her birthday. Her birthday is before we'd move out there - so what would I do? Get the guinea pigs on her birthday, so she wouldn't be disappointed? But then, we'd have to move them and keep them in an apartment with us while we found a house. Then there was the orientation for her kindergarten that came in the mail yesterday. I was sad about not going to it.
I guess I'm going to take robyn6002's advice and go with my gut feeling. Which is telling me to stay where I am for now and see what opporunties are available here.
The clincher came when I got home from dropping her off at a friend's birthday party. My husband was on his way out to our woods with the dog, and he had a couple bottles of beer in his hand. So I joined him and he was showing me all the work he'd been doing clearing away dead stuff in the woods to make it a cool play to hang out. Right then I knew I didn't want to leave. There's no way we'd find a new home with a yard to compare with our's in the towns that I was looking at out there. If we had all the time in the world to search, maybe we could. But that wouldn't be the case. We'd be stuck in an apartment while we were looking. A family of 3 with a large dog, 3 cats and 2 guinea pigs. We'd be miserable and would end up compromising on what we want.
And then my husband reminded me of how I always say that money isn't the most important thing to me. Money isn't what is going to make me happy. It's having time to spend with my family and having a job that gives me that flexibility, with little pressure. My job here is good. The money is decent, and they respect and trust me. Plus...I have an awesome office with a huge window and a door I can close when everyone in the cubicles are being too loud for me to think. I would have been in cubicle at Maytag. THAT would not make me happy. Especially one of those low-walled cubicles.
So now I'll have to decline the offer and I have a feeling they might be irritated with me. But after my trip out there, I had been kind of hoping they weren't interested. When the recruiter called and said they were...that I was their top candidate...I wasn't excited at all. I was disappointed that I didn't have my choice already made for me.
Obviously the bank thing isn't a sure thing. I haven't even been asked to interview yet. But something about the Iowa thing just wasn't sitting right with me. I wasn't comfortable with it and the thought of taking it just didn't make me excited. I should be excited about something like that, don't you think? I kept thinking about silly things...like how I promised my daughter guinea pigs for her birthday. Her birthday is before we'd move out there - so what would I do? Get the guinea pigs on her birthday, so she wouldn't be disappointed? But then, we'd have to move them and keep them in an apartment with us while we found a house. Then there was the orientation for her kindergarten that came in the mail yesterday. I was sad about not going to it.
I guess I'm going to take robyn6002's advice and go with my gut feeling. Which is telling me to stay where I am for now and see what opporunties are available here.
The clincher came when I got home from dropping her off at a friend's birthday party. My husband was on his way out to our woods with the dog, and he had a couple bottles of beer in his hand. So I joined him and he was showing me all the work he'd been doing clearing away dead stuff in the woods to make it a cool play to hang out. Right then I knew I didn't want to leave. There's no way we'd find a new home with a yard to compare with our's in the towns that I was looking at out there. If we had all the time in the world to search, maybe we could. But that wouldn't be the case. We'd be stuck in an apartment while we were looking. A family of 3 with a large dog, 3 cats and 2 guinea pigs. We'd be miserable and would end up compromising on what we want.
And then my husband reminded me of how I always say that money isn't the most important thing to me. Money isn't what is going to make me happy. It's having time to spend with my family and having a job that gives me that flexibility, with little pressure. My job here is good. The money is decent, and they respect and trust me. Plus...I have an awesome office with a huge window and a door I can close when everyone in the cubicles are being too loud for me to think. I would have been in cubicle at Maytag. THAT would not make me happy. Especially one of those low-walled cubicles.
So now I'll have to decline the offer and I have a feeling they might be irritated with me. But after my trip out there, I had been kind of hoping they weren't interested. When the recruiter called and said they were...that I was their top candidate...I wasn't excited at all. I was disappointed that I didn't have my choice already made for me.
...Carole