The phone rang about 9:30am. It was the HR person from one of the places I had interviewed at. She asked me a couple of house cleaning questions, if I was still interested, confirmed how much I was looking for that kind of stuff. She then asked if I would be available later in the day if they needed to get in touch with me. I assured her I would. Once the call ended I began to try and pull my hair out! I'm already bald so it was a fruitless attempt but you understand how jacked up I was. I was reaching the end of my sanity and something was going to break. If it was going to happen, now would be a good time.
The phone rang again later in the afternoon, around 4:30pm. It was the same girl that called earlier that day. I was hoping for it, I was ready for it and sure enough those sweet words were said to me, "we would like to extend the offer to you". What an immense load off my brain those few words had. No more wading through postings of jobs that most likely weren't real jobs at all. No more sending resumes to postings that would undoubtedly go unanswered. But most of all, I now had a direction to go towards and a goal that I could own.
Now I was let in on a couple of the perks during the interview, and those really peaked my interest but she went over them again, with the addition of a couple of other gems and literally blew me away. Salary was non-negotiable, they gave me exactly what I asked for. Full benefits, dollar for dollar RSP matching, stock options, bonuses, tuition reimbursement, the works!
I feel this is going to be a good move for me. I'm not working downtown anymore but rather in the suburbs just North of my place. I'll need to drive there and back so it's back to commuting again, although it is going against morning traffic so it's not too bad, I have done it before.
I'm definitely going to have to get A/C in my next car though.
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