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Dec. 6th, 2012 04:59 pmI got a job offer today! It's for the job I was talking about before. I'm stoked...now, but I've been freaking out and conflicted since yesterday.
My M.Sc. supervisor and a former prof were in town for meetings with an environmental consulting company, and arranged for me to meet one of the people there. I went down for a 'chat' and had a 2.5 hour interview. The company, my god, I think that it'd be perfect as a consulting company. They do the kind of work that I thought I'd be doing, but learned that most places don't. They were excited by my thesis research because they use a lot of the (non-standard) methods I used and they emphasize passive and in-situ remediation methods, which I'm passionate about. They seem really eager to hire me too...but they won't even know if they have the budget until January, and admitted that they take a long time to hire.
I don't have the time for that. My EI ran out last month, and I'm running on financial fumes right now. I wasn't even sure how I'd pay for Jan rent.
And then there's all the reasons I didn't want to take a consulting company that's only now starting to come back to me (everything got blown away by the awesomeness of the work). There's the fact that I want to be able to leave my work at work (although I should say that I'm fine with some overlap), that I think 2 week rotational shifts would be great for my lifestyle right now (allow me to get home to visit family on my time out, have guilt-free sewing days, and not to mention allowing D and I time apart to work on our communication skills, etc), and the exercise that will come with the underground portion of the job, instead of a lot of sitting at a computer.
So I'm taking the mine job, but I'm going to keep in touch with the consulting company. Because who knows, I may hate it at the mine, or they may not think I'm a good fit, and after a couple months, the consulting place will know if they can/want to hire me, and I'll know more about what I want to do.
SO YAY! I FINALLY GOT A JOB OFFER FOR A GOOD JOB! :D
My M.Sc. supervisor and a former prof were in town for meetings with an environmental consulting company, and arranged for me to meet one of the people there. I went down for a 'chat' and had a 2.5 hour interview. The company, my god, I think that it'd be perfect as a consulting company. They do the kind of work that I thought I'd be doing, but learned that most places don't. They were excited by my thesis research because they use a lot of the (non-standard) methods I used and they emphasize passive and in-situ remediation methods, which I'm passionate about. They seem really eager to hire me too...but they won't even know if they have the budget until January, and admitted that they take a long time to hire.
I don't have the time for that. My EI ran out last month, and I'm running on financial fumes right now. I wasn't even sure how I'd pay for Jan rent.
And then there's all the reasons I didn't want to take a consulting company that's only now starting to come back to me (everything got blown away by the awesomeness of the work). There's the fact that I want to be able to leave my work at work (although I should say that I'm fine with some overlap), that I think 2 week rotational shifts would be great for my lifestyle right now (allow me to get home to visit family on my time out, have guilt-free sewing days, and not to mention allowing D and I time apart to work on our communication skills, etc), and the exercise that will come with the underground portion of the job, instead of a lot of sitting at a computer.
So I'm taking the mine job, but I'm going to keep in touch with the consulting company. Because who knows, I may hate it at the mine, or they may not think I'm a good fit, and after a couple months, the consulting place will know if they can/want to hire me, and I'll know more about what I want to do.
SO YAY! I FINALLY GOT A JOB OFFER FOR A GOOD JOB! :D
