A sign?
If you read my blog, you know that I had a job interview last week. I was glad to go to the interview, and the prospect of a new beginning was and still is exciting. However, in pushing my feelings around over the past few days and talking to people and thinking and contemplating, I have decided (at least I think I have) that if this job is offered to me, taking it would only be a temporary change, not really changing or fixing my overall disatisfaction with work in general. I fear that I may find myself in the same position at a different place.
The biggest motivation for me to get a new job is to try and move one step closer to my perfect job and my perfect working environment. I make decent money already, so money is secondary to happiness in my opinion. As strange as it sounds, the biggest problem with this new job is the fact that I would only get one week of vacation my first year there. That is a major issue for me. My fiance will be graduating next year with her degree, we will be getting married, and who knows what will happen at that point. We may pack it up and say goodbye to San Diego for all I know, so with that in mind, there is no incentive for me to start a new job where the payoff doesn't come within the first year. And having been at my present job for just over four years, I'm finally reaching the payoff point. I will soon be 100% vested in my 401K, I will soon start accumulating three weeks paid vacation (that's right, as opposed to the one week I might be offered), and I know my boss and I know that he is a great guy and very flexible when it comes to special requests.
On a strange note, I had a "sign" the other day that I think suggested that I should stay put for the time being. One of the days right around my interview, I was in the bathroom before work about to brush my teeth, and I picked up the toothpaste, and you know how sometimes the toothpaste gets smeared around the top? Well, on the Colgate tube we have, it has the words "Twist here to open" in letters around the top, and the toothpaste was smeared across three consecutive letters, making then perfectly visible and legible. My company's name is three words, and frequently abbreviated by a three letter acronym. Well the three letters that stuck out quite clearly, were the letters making up the acronym for my company's name.
The biggest motivation for me to get a new job is to try and move one step closer to my perfect job and my perfect working environment. I make decent money already, so money is secondary to happiness in my opinion. As strange as it sounds, the biggest problem with this new job is the fact that I would only get one week of vacation my first year there. That is a major issue for me. My fiance will be graduating next year with her degree, we will be getting married, and who knows what will happen at that point. We may pack it up and say goodbye to San Diego for all I know, so with that in mind, there is no incentive for me to start a new job where the payoff doesn't come within the first year. And having been at my present job for just over four years, I'm finally reaching the payoff point. I will soon be 100% vested in my 401K, I will soon start accumulating three weeks paid vacation (that's right, as opposed to the one week I might be offered), and I know my boss and I know that he is a great guy and very flexible when it comes to special requests.
On a strange note, I had a "sign" the other day that I think suggested that I should stay put for the time being. One of the days right around my interview, I was in the bathroom before work about to brush my teeth, and I picked up the toothpaste, and you know how sometimes the toothpaste gets smeared around the top? Well, on the Colgate tube we have, it has the words "Twist here to open" in letters around the top, and the toothpaste was smeared across three consecutive letters, making then perfectly visible and legible. My company's name is three words, and frequently abbreviated by a three letter acronym. Well the three letters that stuck out quite clearly, were the letters making up the acronym for my company's name.
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