Scoooooooore...!
Jun. 11th, 2004 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI got the job, pretty much; they want to give me an offer, and clearly they were pretty decisive about it since I just walked out of there 2 hours ago. But apparently there's one more hoop to jump through: they want more references.
I have a little better feel now for how the job will actually be, and they schedule pretty tightly, so it sounds like I'd have to actually work pretty much all the time (I know... what? No LJ all day?) And the office space will be cramped (multiple office-mates), but it does have a window, so I won't have broken my no-window vow. Yay, oh that makes me so unbelievably relieved. :)
Also, it doesn't look like they're coming back with an ultra-crazy salary offer, so far, although it will still be an almost-10-percent raise and, face it, they will be providing me with a fair bit of training. Shrug... there's the "demand a lot at the beginning" viewpoint, and then there's the one that says "don't worry about where you start, you'll be paid what you're worth soon enough." Despite recent friendly advice, I would have to say my experience so far favors the latter... a lot of this is the vesting, but I make almost 40% more than I did when I first started at DSB. Even my take-home pay is way more than enough to live on.
Anyway, I "should" be elated right now, but screw should, I'm dead tired, and I still haven't gotten any work done. I know this is the right professional move, and I'll make it, but that doesn't make me any more rested at the moment, you know?
Tonight HLM and I are going to see Harry Potter. That will be nice.
I have a little better feel now for how the job will actually be, and they schedule pretty tightly, so it sounds like I'd have to actually work pretty much all the time (I know... what? No LJ all day?) And the office space will be cramped (multiple office-mates), but it does have a window, so I won't have broken my no-window vow. Yay, oh that makes me so unbelievably relieved. :)
Also, it doesn't look like they're coming back with an ultra-crazy salary offer, so far, although it will still be an almost-10-percent raise and, face it, they will be providing me with a fair bit of training. Shrug... there's the "demand a lot at the beginning" viewpoint, and then there's the one that says "don't worry about where you start, you'll be paid what you're worth soon enough." Despite recent friendly advice, I would have to say my experience so far favors the latter... a lot of this is the vesting, but I make almost 40% more than I did when I first started at DSB. Even my take-home pay is way more than enough to live on.
Anyway, I "should" be elated right now, but screw should, I'm dead tired, and I still haven't gotten any work done. I know this is the right professional move, and I'll make it, but that doesn't make me any more rested at the moment, you know?
Tonight HLM and I are going to see Harry Potter. That will be nice.
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Re: Congrats. :)
Date: 2004-06-11 12:56 pm (UTC)Re: Congrats. :)
Date: 2004-06-12 04:38 am (UTC)Even so, yes, it's working out well. Thanks, on the congrats. :)
Re: Yay!
Date: 2004-06-14 04:19 am (UTC)Not to beat a dead horse, but another friend of mine was promoting the 'demand a lot at the beginning' viewpoint recently. He's not in our field though, so take it for what it's worth.
Hope you got lots of good rest.
Re: Yay!
Date: 2004-06-14 05:04 am (UTC)But see... I'll be getting a lot at the beginning. All the numbers under discussion, the lower ones and the higher ones, are a lot. They are way more than enough to live on. Sure, I'm playing the demand-a-lot game, because I feel like I have to, but I don't see how I'm supposed to be particularly attached to the outcome. I don't neeeeeed the higher number for anything in particular. You know?
I got some rest, but wait until next week... that's when I'm seriously gon' get mah slack on.
Re: Yay!
Date: 2004-06-14 02:09 pm (UTC)since the headhunter did manage to get me the number they initially balked at. SCORE, I'm going to be RICH! Now I just have to worry about living up to expectations. (Not that they have any real idea what to expect, any more than I do. Companies are included in my "nobody has a clue" theory.)
Eh, whatever. Happy flexagon. And you can feel that your advice was, in fact, taken. :)