Instead of concentrating on DIWMGf, we spent most of the time arguing rather the beanie she was wearing was orange or red. I say orange, and I might have mentioned that she looked like a male Dutch soccer fan. She said that I am just color confused, and spent some time looking around the room for orange-colored things to compare to: Chicago Bears stuff is usually everywhere, but we couldn't see any. Is she hiding my Chicago Bears stuff? That bitch!
Anyway, we then got into a deep conversation about what it will be like in Albany if we can't find any cool people to hang out with. Their Michigan Alumni Club looks like it sucks, and it's not the coolest area, but there has to be some sort of young scene, right? There's some colleges nearby. It's a state capital of a flaming, blue state!?!
The conversation helped us discover that deep down, we think we are way cool. Probably cooler than we actually are. We also, apparently, have high standards for the quality of friends that we make. Good luck, upstate New York.
I never knew I'd become so snobby,
~RoB
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Job Offer!
Yesterday I got my first real job offer. I have 2 weeks to consider it. It would drag me out to upstate New York. It takes a little pressure off my shoulders knowing that I have something, and that my life will be decided within the next 2 weeks, but the offer wasn't good enough for me to feel like it solved everything.
Here's some math, without getting specific, because it's rude to discuss money:
I figured out beforehand that I would absolutely accept an offer of X dollars, (though it was 6.5% below what an ideal offer would be, according to my brain).
I also told myself that I would seriously consider anything within 3% of the acceptable offer.
The offer was within 5%. So, you see, it's not so low that I should flat-out refuse, but it's not where I saw myself accepting. Everything else about the job seems right, it's just a money game.
Still actively looking for jobs. Even if I accept this first offer, I'll be in the Bay Area for a few months while my new security clearance gets processed.
I'm pretty disappointed about my Bears. It's also discouraging that I can't, in good conscience, root for the Steelers in the Super Bowl. So, for a few hours of one day only, only to support the NFC North, I'll root for the (Fudge) Packers. I continue to add things to storage and unpack things at Annie's. Maybe I'll be less anxious in a day or so. Just baked some blueberry muffins.
"... has some life decisions that [I] need to make..." (HR person of offering company),
~RoB
Here's some math, without getting specific, because it's rude to discuss money:
I figured out beforehand that I would absolutely accept an offer of X dollars, (though it was 6.5% below what an ideal offer would be, according to my brain).
I also told myself that I would seriously consider anything within 3% of the acceptable offer.
The offer was within 5%. So, you see, it's not so low that I should flat-out refuse, but it's not where I saw myself accepting. Everything else about the job seems right, it's just a money game.
Still actively looking for jobs. Even if I accept this first offer, I'll be in the Bay Area for a few months while my new security clearance gets processed.
I'm pretty disappointed about my Bears. It's also discouraging that I can't, in good conscience, root for the Steelers in the Super Bowl. So, for a few hours of one day only, only to support the NFC North, I'll root for the (Fudge) Packers. I continue to add things to storage and unpack things at Annie's. Maybe I'll be less anxious in a day or so. Just baked some blueberry muffins.
"... has some life decisions that [I] need to make..." (HR person of offering company),
~RoB
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