Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now?

I've been on a job interview every day for the past week. Today is the first day where I don't have to leave the house. (I have an interview by phone at 2:30 PM.) Being unemployed is a lot more work than I anticipated. I've also been spending money on coffee drinks, dry cleaning the suits, and buying a shiny new pair of shoes for the interviews. Haven't received my first unemployment check yet, but they might as well make them out to Starbucks.

I've had two offers so far, and I've already declined one. The current offer I'm sitting on is dependent on the status of two more opportunities. The first is at a very well-know advertising agency; they've expressed interest in having me come in for a second round, but they've yet to confirm a date and time. They also said they weren't sure if they were ready to hire for that particular position, but a second interview gives me hope that they will be. The second opportunity is at a video game company with International offices. The job would require me to visit the European/Asian offices once a quarter, so that could be very interesting for me, as well as allow me to break into an industry which I've always wished to be in. The offer on the table though, is for a profitable but smaller interactive agency, where they would develop a department around me (and I would make up my own title), so the opportunity there could be extremely lucrative as well.

So here's what it's looking like now: growth vs. brand vs. industry.

Worst case scenario: the growth company gets tired of waiting for me to give them an asnwer and declines the offer, the brand company's second interview doesn't happen becuase they've decided they're really not hiring, and the industry company doesn't like me on the first interview becasue I spilled my Starbuck's Banana Creme Frappuccino all over my freshly dry cleaned suit.

I'm hoping that I should have a better idea what direction my porofessional life is going in by the end of the week.

In other news, the latest update for my current fav vido game, City of Villains, just went live, so I can find a way to keep busy in the meantime. And I've got laundry to fold.

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