cats are no longer in their bags
alright, so news has been fairly well spread around the people who need to know before i start yelling it from the mountaintops, so um…yeah.
I HAVE A NEW JOB!!!!
here’s how it went down:
(backstory: infuz is jason’s company. angela is project management. angela and i have had a few conversations over the last 4 – 5 months or so @ the fact that she needs help and i know how to do what she needs help with and wouldn’t that be great if could be i the person that helps her. for any number of reasons this was a known “great idea” but had yet to be actually implemented…)
5/1 @ 4pm ryan tells me that jason wants to talk to me if i happen to stop by. i assume this is related to his phone bill because i refuse to get overly excited that this might be “it.”
5/1 @ 5:30pm turns out it’s not jason, it’s angela. and we have a lovely chat that is much more specific than anything we’ve ever had and i’m left with the impression that this might actually happen “soon” (i’m thinking maybe by the end of the month i’ll have an offer) and that i need to come back and talk with jason “later in the week.”
5/2 @ 5:00pm tuesday’s later in the week, it seems. after chatting with jason for almost an hour (and probably only 1/3 of it could be considered specifically related to the job/company/offer etc) “soon” solidifies to “you’ll probably get to give notice on monday” (5/8). i am stunned and a little freaked. i’ve wanted to get out of my current job for so long that this doesn’t seem real and i don’t want to get my hopes up too far until it’s really-real.
5/3 @ 10am contract is emailed to me. i can sign whenever i want. i am freaked the fuck out and decided that the best course of action is to sign as soon as possible and give notice as soon as possible because oh my god, the potential shockwave through my team was going to be huge and even though i’ll be giving two weeks, it’ll really only be 6 work days (more on that later).
i spent the entire day twitching in my cube, sort of in this daze and feeling tremendous amounts of anxiety any time someone called and talked about something that wouldn’t be my problem in two weeks. so far, that was the most surreal day, but i expect next week to be even stranger.
5/3 4:30pm contract is signed, right at 48 hours from when i got my first hint that something might be happening.
un freaking real.
i have more to post @ this, including what’s been happening at my soon-to-be old job, and a direct comparison between the two work environments, but i want to pace myself :)
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