Now That It's Public

Now that it appears to be public at work, I can finally say something here. As of the end of the month, I'll no longer be working where I presently work. I received a job offer, basically out of the blue, from a company much closer to home that I simply couldn't refuse.

You know how when you go to interviews and they ask you that "where do you want to be in five years?" interview question... well, what I described, and what they then told me the job description was, had such a neat meshing (which is to say, "they were identical") that I knew right then that I had to take the position, so long as the financials could be made to line up, and they did that quite easily.

It'll be a bit of a switch for me actually having to get up and go to work each day, but I think I can manage. It's about a 45-50 minute drive for me (versus the 95-100 minute drive on the rare days I could commute down to White Plains).

It's a much smaller company (40 people), generating just obscene quantities of cash for its size (the phrase "hand over fist" comes to mind). I'm really excited to be getting involved with this organization.

The current place was always envisioned (for me anyway) as a stopping ground... it was the place I went after the Yahoo layoff, because finding a job in 2001-2002 wasn't all that easy. I had a lot of job offers along the way, but didn't take them, because I couldn't find the "right fit at the right time" the way this place seems right to me.