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j0,
So an update for me would be as follows:
One door opens, and another one flattens my heart.
Good news: I had a job offer for $55,000/yr which I used as leverage at my current position to negotiate a salary change. I talked to my HR manager and mentioned that I would hate the 55k job but needed to know if my position was being appreciated enough to try to keep me. Within 2 days (the day of my interview), he came to me with an offer for a $10,000 / yr raise!! A pleasantly sizable chunk of money to negotiate in my shoes. I took into account that I love my job and don't want to leave high and dry without the fruits of my labor realized and benefiting them. The difference is $15,000 but I am more happy doing what I do than to do the other job. I could've performed those duties, its a DBA position, but I would've hated it. I like my work to get ooh's and aaah's ... a dba doesnt get that. He's a background person. I also got my title officially changed to "Web Application Developer" and I've got the salary now that at least comes close to appreciating that title.
Bad News: Angel and I have been having a few issues lately. A spark has been missing for a while and some circumstances have caused us to be less than romantic lately. I've turned into a bit of an ass in retaliation to some of the things that are changing about her, and we also have a pretty big issue thats keeping us from marrying and having kids. So we're "taking a break" which at this point has been defined as "She's mostly ignoring any attempt at making things work at this point and is having the time of her life with lots of college friends" while for me it means "time to clean my house and take out the trash and get back to the gym". Thats not the greatest situation for me, so i'm coping. I have some good friends that keep me goin. And i've gone through all this before so i'm doin ok. She and I speak nightly on the phone still, and we're quite nice to eachother (which is a change over previous month or so). I spent last weekend at her place in BLoomington and things got 'complicated' sunday night, but the whole weekend was a blast... ... all of which adds to my confusion and how annoying this whole thing is.
So yeah. Other than that things are great. My mom is doin good, Grandparents are healthy-ish and work is going smoothly. I've got alot of deadlines in the next weeks so its a bit stressfull, which I like cuz it lets me focus on that instead of allowing myself to get depressed.
Later y0'z
So an update for me would be as follows:
One door opens, and another one flattens my heart.
Good news: I had a job offer for $55,000/yr which I used as leverage at my current position to negotiate a salary change. I talked to my HR manager and mentioned that I would hate the 55k job but needed to know if my position was being appreciated enough to try to keep me. Within 2 days (the day of my interview), he came to me with an offer for a $10,000 / yr raise!! A pleasantly sizable chunk of money to negotiate in my shoes. I took into account that I love my job and don't want to leave high and dry without the fruits of my labor realized and benefiting them. The difference is $15,000 but I am more happy doing what I do than to do the other job. I could've performed those duties, its a DBA position, but I would've hated it. I like my work to get ooh's and aaah's ... a dba doesnt get that. He's a background person. I also got my title officially changed to "Web Application Developer" and I've got the salary now that at least comes close to appreciating that title.
Bad News: Angel and I have been having a few issues lately. A spark has been missing for a while and some circumstances have caused us to be less than romantic lately. I've turned into a bit of an ass in retaliation to some of the things that are changing about her, and we also have a pretty big issue thats keeping us from marrying and having kids. So we're "taking a break" which at this point has been defined as "She's mostly ignoring any attempt at making things work at this point and is having the time of her life with lots of college friends" while for me it means "time to clean my house and take out the trash and get back to the gym". Thats not the greatest situation for me, so i'm coping. I have some good friends that keep me goin. And i've gone through all this before so i'm doin ok. She and I speak nightly on the phone still, and we're quite nice to eachother (which is a change over previous month or so). I spent last weekend at her place in BLoomington and things got 'complicated' sunday night, but the whole weekend was a blast... ... all of which adds to my confusion and how annoying this whole thing is.
So yeah. Other than that things are great. My mom is doin good, Grandparents are healthy-ish and work is going smoothly. I've got alot of deadlines in the next weeks so its a bit stressfull, which I like cuz it lets me focus on that instead of allowing myself to get depressed.
Later y0'z