{"id":49,"date":"2004-04-19T17:16:59","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T01:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=49"},"modified":"2009-12-05T03:55:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T11:55:41","slug":"my-right-brain-will-hate-me-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/04\/19\/my-right-brain-will-hate-me-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"My right-brain will hate me forever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I officially have accepted the <acronym title=\"user interface\">UI<\/acronym> Engineer position at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/\" class=\"unemphasized\">VMware<\/a>.  I still feel lousy about declining the Application Engineer job from the Palm OS startup Tapwave.<\/p>\n<p>All of the logical arguments favored VMware&#8212;better compensation at a more stable, well-known, and proven company that would give me more marketable skills.  On the other hand, I&#8217;ve wanted and waited to work at Tapwave for months; I was a very good fit for their job, it was familiar territory for me, I had much more confidence that I could do it, and it seemed like a fun company.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, I focused on the logical arguments to make my decision, ultimately trading short-term happiness for long-term benefits.  Now that I&#8217;ve decided and am about to start work next week, the anxiety of entering totally new territory at VMware is kicking the right-side of my brain into high gear.  I&#8217;m second-guessing myself.  I feel like I&#8217;m throwing away the months of waiting and what knowledge I gleaned from the past three years at Sony.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also going to miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/images\/Misha.jpg\">Tapwave&#8217;s dog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sigh.  Jennifer Feng thinks I&#8217;m a hopeless romantic, longing for things that might have been.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I&#8217;ll just see how everything turns out when I actually start work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I officially have accepted the UI Engineer position at VMware. I still feel lousy about declining the Application Engineer job from the Palm OS startup Tapwave. All of the logical arguments favored VMware&#8212;better compensation at a more stable, well-known, and proven company that would give me more marketable skills. On the other hand, I&#8217;ve [&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-49","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\/49","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=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}