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two jobs, what to do

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2005.04.07

As expected, I now have two job offers to contend with. And my hand has been forced in the matter by one of them demanding an immediate response even though the other isn't ready for me to sign. No matter what kind of management of expectations I've tried, the firm with whom I hadn't even met as of last Friday is pushing me to start tomorrow, and is calling me every couple of hours!

So I've passed up the one in favour of the verbal offer I've accepted from the other. Why does life get like this?

It seems I've wrapped up the latest chapter with Bell Mobility just in time.

rand()m quote

One day you will take a fork in the road, and you're going to have to make a decision about which direction you want to go. If you go one way, you can be somebody. You will have to make compromises and you will have to turn your back on your friends. But you will be a member of the club and you will get promoted and get good assignments. Or you can go the other way and you can do something [...] for yourself. If you decide to do something, you may not get promoted and get good assignments and you certainly will not be a favorite of your superiors. But you won't have to compromise yourself. To be somebody or to do something. In life there is often a roll call. That's when you have to make a decision. To be or to do.

—John Boyd, US Air Force