{"id":43,"date":"2004-04-14T15:45:40","date_gmt":"2004-04-14T23:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-12-05T03:55:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T11:55:51","slug":"when-it-rains-it-pours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/14\/when-it-rains-it-pours\/","title":{"rendered":"When it rains, it pours."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After six months of relaxation, unemployment, and waiting for a job offer, I now have <em>two<\/em> in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>I should be excited.  Instead, the ordeal of choosing is putting me through agony.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re both good jobs.  Had I received either offer a few weeks ago, I would have accepted it in an instant.  With two simultaneous offers, though, I&#8217;m completely bewildered.  I didn&#8217;t interview at both companies at the same time either; I interviewed at one in January, but it&#8217;s a startup and didn&#8217;t have the funding to hire me at the time.  Even stranger, I sent both companies my r&eacute;sum&eacute; last year, and they both promptly ignored it.  Things have a funny way of coalescing.<\/p>\n<p>I feel bad because I don&#8217;t want to reject either one.  I feel even worse because these days, there are plenty of people who would sell their mother to have one job offer, let alone two.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid conscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six months of relaxation, unemployment, and waiting for a job offer, I now have two in the pipeline. I should be excited. Instead, the ordeal of choosing is putting me through agony. They&#8217;re both good jobs. Had I received either offer a few weeks ago, I would have accepted it in an instant. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}