Digital Dave

So I have been incredibly busy recently.  Not only with school projects, but with this daunting challenge of finding a job.  The process is not only time consuming, but mentally draining (much more so if it’s a programming related interview, for obvious reasons).  The build-up toward an interview, and the come-down after the interview wears me out, and in the past few weeks I had 4 companies interviewing me, sometimes on the same day.

One of the companies spoke with me for nearly 2 hours and I just realized I wasn’t going to be able to fit the position.  They really needed an experienced candidate, not an entry-level candidate.  Or, they needed a super-genius-magical-abnormal-code-monkey entry level candidate, that, I am not.  So I turned down their second interview request.

Another company ran me through the grinder in two on-site interviews to end up telling me that they are not in a position to hire anybody right now.  Ok, fair enough, the economy sucks and I couldn’t imagine that consulting isn’t getting hit hard by it.

A small company in southern cal interviewed me a couple times, and really liked me, but decided to go with somebody else.  This one was a bummer, but I understand the crutch that small businesses have.   I’m sure I left a great impression on them, and we’ll see if something can happen in the future.

The final company in the Kansas City region interviewed me a couple of times, and offered me a position.

Now, part of me feels like I’m crazy.

But the other part feels like I really had little choice.   Financially, it wouldn’t have made any sense for me to take it, and for Megan to move up there, jobless, in an area that is not hiring in her discipline.  We would essentially reverse positions, I would have a job, and she wouldn’t.  The job didn’t pay very much more than hers.  I applied to a different position with the company back in August, so it’s not like I knowingly applied this month and got the interview.  A lot has changed in these 3 months.

So I’m just going to go on with my plan to move out to California.  I’ve applied to a lot of places in California, with little bites.  So far in Kansas, I’ve interviewed with everybody I applied to, and have been approached by companies.  Obviously, having your feet on the ground helps.  Luckily, I have the luxury of having someone to fall back on if things don’t work out.