I recently turned down an opportunity to be a DBA at a successful business. It was not for lack of purposed future salary or benefits. The job description looks like it would be fun and exciting. The job has more professional and monetary growth than my current position.
Someday
The opportunity was a contract-to-hire; I cannot afford to
take that chance, not now, not with a mortgage, bills, and most importantly, my
year and a half old son. The 45-minute commute, while trivial to some, was daunting
to me, that is an extra hour and a half a day that I do not get to see my son.
Someday
The deal breaker was the contract-to-hire. I am happy where
I am, I like my Somedays as they are now. I would give up everything to spend
more time with my son, any Someday that has him in it, is worth whatever the
cost. Two years ago, I would have taken the leap and gone after this job. That,
that goes to show how much my Somedays have changed in the past two years.
Someday
My current job still has a metric tonne of interesting and
fun stuffs to do. There is no want of projects to fill my workday. I am getting
more in to report writing and giving users access to their data, so they can
form their own spreadsheets, reports, and other business intelligence items. It
seems like I have another Someday staring me in the face.
Thomas
LaRock (w|t) gave a presentation about “Someday”, http://thomaslarock.com/someday/. I
fully blame him for me declining. No, not really, his Someday speech was just a
reaffirmation of my beliefs. I wanted to say “thank you”, most people my age,
are about the drive to attain a goal(money, power, what have you), they miss
the Somedays along the way.
