Bye Bye Boring Bank?
Aug. 14th, 2001 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarrickI just got a call from a head-hunter about an administration and development job. My initial reaction is, "Sorry. I'm in a contract." But then he tells me the name of the company, Azure Dynamics and I'm thinking, "Hmmm, why do I know that name?" Then he starts telling me about the company. It's an engineering company that develops gas/electric hybrid technology that recently spun off the research lab where I used to work. I know the vice-chairman of the board of directors and the senior engineer from my old job. The systems they want to support will wholly or in part based on things that I wrote.
So here is my decision: do I stay at the boring fucking job for the giant evil bank, full of dismal corporate sloths, where I am peon in a grey cubicle; or do I take a job with a cutting edge engineering company that creates meaningful world-changing technology, full of excited, practical and interesting engineers, where I would have an office, brand new equipment and be running my own show? Gee, tough call
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Another aspect of this that my old boss at BCRI is involved in the hiring process. This would be the man who threatened to quit if I was laid off from BCRI. This is the man who hired me on to his own company the day I was laid off from BCRI. This is the man who continued to hire me independently after I had a falling out with his partner. I don't know who I can give as a reference because this man is who I usually give out as a reference... then again we've had a couple of personality conflicts as well - but I wouldn't be working for him. It's just a matter of whether he thinks I can do the job.
This is too much. Could I have more "ins" with this job?
So here is my decision: do I stay at the boring fucking job for the giant evil bank, full of dismal corporate sloths, where I am peon in a grey cubicle; or do I take a job with a cutting edge engineering company that creates meaningful world-changing technology, full of excited, practical and interesting engineers, where I would have an office, brand new equipment and be running my own show? Gee, tough call
!Another aspect of this that my old boss at BCRI is involved in the hiring process. This would be the man who threatened to quit if I was laid off from BCRI. This is the man who hired me on to his own company the day I was laid off from BCRI. This is the man who continued to hire me independently after I had a falling out with his partner. I don't know who I can give as a reference because this man is who I usually give out as a reference... then again we've had a couple of personality conflicts as well - but I wouldn't be working for him. It's just a matter of whether he thinks I can do the job.
This is too much. Could I have more "ins" with this job?
