o f f e r e d

 The decision has finally been made.



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I took up the offer.
 

 
 
And they invited me to go over for medical check-up this coming Friday, and then to sign and take up the offer letter.


Ohh, how things fly, ehh? It has been less than a month since I last joked with my ex-boss regarding this opening in her department, and now I'm right in the beginning of the road to continue working with my ex-boss in a new environment. Sounds weird? Kind of. Sounds foolish? Not. Sounds cliche? Hell yeah.


Now that I can finally make up my mind on this complicated matter, what's next is to deal with the excessive "sudden surge" of emotions running up my head. It's just . . . . . just this weird feeling I felt, right after the new company's HR people called me up earlier this noon to confirm on my medical check-up appointment. I felt a sense of . . . . . sorrow. In fact, this is the 1st time, ever, that I feel this way before changing jobs. Every time before I change jobs, I felt ridiculously overjoyed. Happy. Exaggerated joy. Tears of joy flowing on and on. But this time . . . . . . there was no such feeling. No sense of happiness. Joy. No tears, not even a single tear of joy shed. Even with the 30% salary increment perception up my head, the sense of accomplishment, the sense of joy in improving my current salary, my feelings deep inside never cease to come up with a tiny bit of joy. It's just . . . . just like another ordinary day. Just like another Monday up ahead.


Maybe it's because I currently have the best boss . . . . ever. (note the word : EVER). Well, maybe her characteristics and attitude that made her the best boss ever with such a decent physical outlook, a sweet voice, a pleasant and soft attitude, a caring boss, a boss that never scolded me before during my entire tenure with this company, a boss who is more like a friend than a superior when it comes to ordinary chat, and most importantly, a very nice boss to work with. But maybe the one and only one weakness that this boss of mine have, which determines my upcoming, future career path, made me rethink the decision to stay on with my current company and continue to provide my services. Due to her soft attitude, she may be a very pleasant boss to work with, but when it comes to decision making, staff management and issue reporting - in other words, "cruel" corporate management - she is way too far behind as compared to her more aggressive counterparts. Summary wise, it simply means a boss with excellent personality doesn't always play as a productive superior at work. Well, no one is perfect, totally understandable. But for the sake of my future career, I have no choice but to just bid my current boss farewell. Guess both money and opportunity are calling me out from the other side. But still, I'll still remember this boss of mine as a very good friend; in fact, a pleasant person to be friends with.

And not forgetting, the people in this company. Despite me only serving almost a year of service here, I have met, see, talked and known quite a number of people. Tall, short, old, young, friendly, cocky, you name it, we have it. I have seen new guys join the company and left, I have seen long serving staff "forcing" themselves to work happily day by day, I have seen my colleagues ranting about the amount of work they have, I have seen friends grumbling about how unorganized was the whole process in the company, and lots more other things I have never seen in my previous companies. Yes, this company is truly a company comprised of different people with different background working together. In fact, I can say that this company has all the main characteristics of a retiring home. Not to condemn this company of mine, but yes, true enough, this company will be the place I want to be for my last job ever before retiring. Everything seems to be slow and steady here; everyone just mind their own business, life goes on day by day, and before you know it, it's retirement day. Nice to be, nice to have, nice to enjoy. Ask for no more. Who knows, I might return to this place again in the future when all I needed was just a company with all the peace and quiet in one place ? With fingers crossed, who knows ?

As for now, it's best for me to start counting on my official last day in this company, so that I can at least inform the new company on my start date to be typed onto the offer letter.


For my friends who are currently reading this,


Please wish me luck, despite me not believing in luck. I take that as a sign of good omen for better things to come.




I sincerely hope that this decision be the right one.

c l i c h e

Today, I finally opened up a folder from my home PC, which I have long abandoned.

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A folder with the title "Interview Stuffs".

Yes, in case you're wondering . . . . . . I'm in the midst of preparing my resignation letter for my current job. And that's not the best part. When I opened up my previous resignation letter as a template for the current one, I can't help but to notice that the person to address, whom I wrote my resignation letter from my previous job, will again (yes, AGAIN), become my future superior, whom now holds a higher position.

Ohhh, what a cliche.

A brief background on what happened. My ex-supervisor (not BOSS, mind you) from my previous company, changed her job to another company from the same industry. Just several weeks ago, she left me a message in Facebook, asking me to recommend her a few candidates to apply for a job in her new department, as she has been promoted from Assistant Manager from the previous company, to a Manager in this current company, and she's desperately looking for people to increase the headcount. I joked with her, asking whether I myself could apply for the position or not, as a Team Leader. Astonished, she told me that yes, I am more than qualified & can definitely apply for the position, and believe it or not, she was more than delighted when I asked the question in the 1st place ! Well, so it went off with me submitting my resume to her, her HR people called me up for an interview (in which it's not really like a formal interview, with HR asking ALL the questions and my ex-supervisor just sat there, doing nothing), after the interview, I called up her to ask bout the status, and her HR returned call to ask me bout the salary thing, and the next thing I know,  I got the offer. As expected, yes, but . . . . . . .

WOW.

Everything just happened so quick. Not to mention, unexpected.

Frankly speaking, initially I do not have a single intention to quit my current job in the 1st place. But after what happened here and here, I can't help but to start contemplating on my next career move, whether to continue staying here in this peaceful and slow-moving company to rot with my "totally-non-IT-related" job scope, or to just move on to another level in terms of career advancement and personal improvement. Well, definitely the latter sounds more tempting to many, but in reality, everything isn't as simple as it seems. To a fresh graduate who is currently working on his 1st ever job, yes this might be an easy decision. But for someone like me who have been going through numerous job changes in such a short amount of time, it isn't an easy step to take. One wrong plunge and I might either land on Heaven or Hell. Simple as that. And if I really landed in Hell (*touches wood*), well, the road ahead will be much more difficult to move on.

For this new upcoming job offered by my ex-supervisor, well, sad & happy to say that I'm moving back to the banking line. Why both sad & happy? Sad because I'm going to work with the almost same bunch of people whom I worked before (my ex-supervisor and gang) in which might lead to boredom, happy because well, the money ! Do you know that this new company is offering me a tremendous 30% salary increase from my current one? It's definitely not easy to get such a huge leap in salary increment, not even if I get promoted 2 ranks for my current position ! So it all comes back to that ugly piece of rotten paper, destined to either ruin or improve someone's life. And like what most people say, "Never mess with money as you'll be a loser in the end if you do". And that's what I did.

I'm planning to take up the offer.

Not messing with the money. Not messing up my future either. In fact, it's much more easier to work on with my ex-supervisor-cum-future-boss  from now on, as you will basically have a grip on what is the characteristic and personality of the superior. But still . . . . . . . I'm still (yes, still) contemplating on whether am I doing the right thing. I still have the time up to next Monday to give their HR the final answer in salary and confirmation of offer before I finally confirm my move and sign up their offer letter. Which is why I'm taking this weekend to actually sit down quietly and think of where am I heading to.

Guess the benefit of doubt still plays a major part in this decision making nonsense. I guess I already have the final decision. It's just the implementation part which is making everything tougher than it seems.

I shall not burden my head longer with unnecessary stress. Final answer to be up latest by next Monday. Updates to follow up later.

If only I could take the road less taken. Good one, Robert Frost.