Escape From The Death Ship

This last couple days has been quite unreal. It started with a call on Friday asking if I still wanted a job at the university. I went to the interview on Monday. It went well and I was anxiously awaiting the “you’re hired” call when I received a call about another job. I accepted that interview as well. I figured, might as well keep my options open. And then I got the callback from the first interview saying they wanted me to come in for a follow up.

Today, I went to the second interview and then the follow up of the first interview. By some miracle, both jobs seem perfect for me and are way better than my current job. Both jobs want to pay me more than I’m making now and give me a schedule that doesn’t conflict with my studies in any way.

The first one offered me the position today, whereas the second one said they had to interview another person and they would let me know on Thursday. I decided to accept the first one and not wait for the possible Thursday call. There were numerous reasons why I chose the first one, and it was by far one of the toughest decisions I’ve had to make.

After the papers are filed and my resignation letter turned in in a couple days, I will have a better paying with better hours job that I don’t hate and actually want to go to. This has been a great day.

This whole process has been very interesting for me, because I’ve never had to pick between two outstanding job opportunities before. Granted, these are just part time student positions, but my current death ship position has made me realize just how important it is to pursue the things you want to do and not just take what is handed to you. It’s really difficult to market yourself and get people to see that you are worth something, and had the death ship not motivated me to find something better, I probably would have remained lazy about it.