Life decision making time! There’s a lot of back-story on this, and I don’t know how much I want to get into, but basically I had agreed to take this position working with my old Tech Lead and my old cube mate working on new PC GUI development. Those two people are probably my two best friends that I have out here, so as far as who I’d be working with it would be great. Also, the work they are doing is perfect for me. So I had agreed to take this job and then all of these shady shenanigans went down and I ended up not being able to get the job. It was basically a power struggle between my boss and the boss downstairs, with me caught in the middle. So I didn’t get the job. At that point I was just glad to be done with it, because it was getting quite ridiculous. Since that time every person higher than me in management stops by my desk like once a day each to tell me I should stay where I am. My manager has even told me that if I stayed around I could be “a big guy” on an upcoming project. Of course there’s no talk of giving me any more money, even when they were trying to keep me from leaving. Also, whenever I talk to any of the tons of people that I know that work down there, they always tell me disturbing news about budgets running out, lack of direction, etc. The program that I’m on is much more stable. Oh, and just to add one more wrinkle to the whole deal, my manager is leaving to take another position and my other best friend out here has an inside shot at the manager position. Anyway, I was glad that the decision was taken out of my hands and I didn’t have to worry about it anymore…oh wait. 😛 Now they say they have an additional head of funding and they can take me for the job after all. Sooooo…now I’m screwed. On one hand I feel like I had already decided that’s what I wanted to do and it’s the same job with the same people, so I should go do it, right? On the other hand, now that I’ve had a much closer view on the inner workings of things downstairs it seems like maybe I don’t want to go down there after all. They’re so disorganized and unstable…I’d hate to go down there and then have the funding be taken away for the project or something, and then I’m sunk. Also, the manager downstairs has apparently been fighting to get funding for me for months, so I’d kind of feel bad if I was just like, “Nevermind!” I know that shouldn’t matter in my decision, but still. For the record, I love the job I have now and the people I work with, but I just don’t know how much upcoming work there is going to be.

So anyway…I’ve got to come up with an answer by Thursday. I know both jobs would be a good fit for me and I know they both are tugging hardcore on me to go to their respective positions. ::sigh:: I just wish I didn’t have to make a decision this week, with my big presentation for class tomorrow and my final on Thursday and then driving to NC on Friday!

I’ll keep you posted. (Get it? POSTED! 😛 )