Too Much Good Luck

Life’s full of ironies. Two days ago I was unemployed with no immediate prospects. Most of the promising interviews I did a month ago had fallen through, leaving me back at square one. Then, out of nowhere, I get two job offers only hours apart. Comedy, they say, is all in the timing.

So here I was with two jobs to choose between when I’d been unemployed only hours before. Did I praise my good fortune and cavort merrily about the house? No, I decided it would be a better idea to ponder and pace about neurotically, worrying over the decision.

In retrospect, it was a pretty straightforward choice. One job was a web development contract deal until the end of the month. It paid better in the short term, but the project was a tangled mess and there was no prospect for continued employment. In other words, I would’ve ended up pulling my hair out for two weeks only to go back on the job hunt next month.

The other was a contract-to-perm offer with a local web development company. Honestly, this is the sort of work I’ve been aching to get back into for the past year, a steady stream of interesting and challenging web development projects for me to flex and build my expertise. What more could a web geek ask for?

I’ve still got my concerns, but I’m hoping this will spell a decisive end to my most recent bout of unemployment. Only time will tell.

Hey man! Glad to hear you’ve got a solid gig now. Keep in touch.