Thursday, October 06, 2005

Decisions, decisions

I haven't posted much this week. I've thought about it but I really haven't done anything exciting in my life to warrant posting about. I've just been enjoying my freedom from work and actually being able to spend time at home. It's amazing to me how just being able to cook dinner can be so relaxing and pleasurable. I've missed that tremendously!

And now I have a dilemma. They want to extend me for another 6 months (minimum) to do another project with the company from hell. It would be the same kind of work with a similar team and I have lots of experience with it. My other option, is to leave at the end of the month, go to a new client and work on multiple projects with technologies I haven't used in years, and technologies I don't enjoy as much, but with an open-ended opportunity in front of me. If I stay in hell, there's a good chance they'll send me to Connecticut for a week or more, which means being closer to Fenway. If I go to the new client, I'll have less overtime and more normal working conditions...or at least that's what they want me to believe. And then there's my boss who wants to keep a working relationship with hell and I'm the only one who can do that right now, and it's highly unlikely they would be willing to transition someone else into my role here.

What do I do?? I know it should be an easy decision, but there's something about being the one person on the project that knows the ins and outs of everything. I won't be second guessing myself or having doubts about my abilities. Maybe staying is the easy road but moving on is scary - that unknown element that makes me panic and run away. Another 6 months would take me to May 1st. I could do that, it won't kill another summer.

But do I want to?

Posted by Maple :: 10:17 AM :: 3 Comments:

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