Well, the aforementioned potentially exciting job news is now officially exciting job news … without the potentially! I have a new job that I’ll be starting mid-January. And it’s very bittersweet. I’ll be leaving a job and a team that I love, and saying goodbye there will be very hard. But on the other hand, this new opportunity is a really, really fantastic career-changing position.
I really could have seen myself getting comfortable where I was and staying there for years and years and years. And I would have been sacrificing some things for comfort and, again, the chance to spend everyday working with a couple of guys I really respect and enjoy being around. With this new opportunity, I’m going to have the chance to really step up into a role where I can take a more active leadership role … which is where I’m most comfortable. And yes, money is a big factor as well as it’s a considerable pay increase. But it’s also going to give me a lot more freedom to showcase what I can do, and to more actively share my own ideas. I’ll basically be doing what I do now, but for a much larger organization and with a lot more autonomy. And another major difference is that instead of working as part of an IT team, I’ll be working as part of a marketing team.
And I wake up everyday hoping I’m doing the best thing. I tried to rationalize staying right where I am, but I can’t do it. If I were the kind of person who makes decisions solely based on emotions, I wouldn’t be leaving. But I do pretty well to balance emotions with rationale, and there’s just no justifying passing up the incredible opportunity I’ve been offered.
Looking forward, it seems like my new team will be great to work with, and I’m really excited about getting settled in there and making some basic improvements and some new features to this organization’s Website. It’s a new position, which means I’ll have the chance to sort of forge out the work styles I set. It also means that in the future, as additional positions are added in this area, I’ll be in a position to head a new department, which, again, was way too exciting to pass up.
But in the meantime, I’m going to enjoy my last month where I am. I’m not excited about the day when I walk out of that basement office for the last time, but I am excited about the first day when I walk into that new fifth-story office overlooking a lake … hopefully it’ll all balance out, and hopefully I’m making the right decision. Time will tell!
Through the Peephole 