\nSighs of relief, the intense career thinking is over (and consequently also my silence here).
\nI’ve signed the contract. They don’t know it yet, but I have.\n<\/p>\n
\nIt was either a long-term wise decision, or just plain foolish… and I won’t really know which it was until several years from now.\n<\/p>\n
\nI accepted a job with the Technology department of the company I’m currently with. I’m going in as a lateral hire, but will nevertheless join their graduate training programme, together with new graduates. That’s eight weeks of full-time training this summer and frequent continuing training throughout the first year.\n<\/p>\n
\nAnd I’ve turned down a perfectly good job from another firm, which also offered lots of training, and exciting products, and the people seemed nice as well. Plus the pay would have been about 50% higher.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe other job was one I would immediately be quite good at, because to a large extent it uses technologies I already know, and advancement from there. The one I chose doesn’t expect me to be particularly productive at all during the first year or so, but spend the time learning instead – and it will certainly be needed, because all the technologies used here will be new to me (Java above all).\n<\/p>\n
\nIn the end, I think both jobs would have turned out well and be broadly comparable. Apart from the fact that one offered 50% more money, but the other is with a firm that I know and trust, with people I know and like.\n<\/p>\n
\nSo I guess this is how much I value my relationship with the firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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