Today I received a call from the place that I went last week, they wanted to interview me TODAY, I said yes, and told my supervisor that I forgot to tell her that I had yet another date to the Doctor, those people must think I have AIDS or Cancer or something like that.  The interview was at 4:00pm, so at noon I rushed to my house and since I was near where my BF works asked him to have lunch with me.

After lunch I went home, took a bath, changed clothes and ran to the meeting.  When I get there they let me waiting for like 45 minutes because no one knew I was coming, strike one.  Someone comes and takes me to the MIS office, we stay there for like half an hour in an unofficial meeting, there was the guy that interviewed me last time, plus the MIS Director plus some other guy, all of us standing, they were telling me about the position and stuff.  Then they take me out of the office and they stay inside talking.

After that “Douglas” takes me to another office to meet his manager.  There “The Manager” told me that I would be working with a new system that they need to implement and that it was required for me to work after hours and weekends (strike two), and that it took a year for the other sites to implement the system, but that “we” had to do it in a month, 30 days.  My thoughts at that moment were to start running from that place and never come back again, but I stayed to hear what they had to offer. 

Shortly after that Douglas came and took me to meet some salesman and another American lady, I don’t know why, but I feel more comfortable speaking with “Gringos” that with locals, I can express my thoughts better, even though I can’t write shit!.  Douglas came again and took me to his manager’s office, again, and there they offered me a job.  They offered me $25,000 a year, I didn’t knew what to say, is that too much?, is that too low?, at that moment I didn’t knew what to respond.  They also wanted me to start immediately, at what I responded that I had to give my current employers two weeks, I mean, I hate the job, but I have to be fair.  They tried to pressure me to quit immediately (strike three), to which I responded that I needed to think things, they are taking this too fast for me to swallow, that I would ask in my current job if they could release me ASAP, but that I didn’t wanted to burn any bridges, but I told them that I accept the job, that I needed two weeks to leave things working at my current job, and they were all right. 

I did not signed any contract whatsoever because at that moment the human resources personnel had left the building, they told me that they would send a letter to my email stating that I have a job offer and that I would sign the contract once I finish with my current job.  And that was it.

So now I am having second thoughts, the pay is not what I wanted, and for the kind of work that I will be doing, and the extra hours, it’s just not worth it.  The pay is a whole lot better than what I have right now, but damn, when I think about my free time something tells me that it’s not worth it.  The other thing that bugs me is the responsibility issue.  They left me waiting for 45 fucking minutes for god’s sake!, and is not just that, I could feel in the air the ambience of irresponsibility, from what I could get from the conversations around me there was suppose to be a training on the week of April 4^th, they were arguing because now it was suppose to be two weeks of training instead of one, but the manager didn’t told anyone.  Another thing is that I told them that I am studying and they didn’t cared much about that, they just limited themselves to tell me that work is a priority and that I my work time would not be from 8 to 5 but more likely from 8 to 9 or 10, they even asked me if I had a girlfriend of family, so this time issue is pretty serious.  

Bottom line, I won’t accept this job, my studies are a priority, if they can’t respect that, fuck them.  Another important thing is the stress, they are practically squeezing a year of development into a month, fuck, that’s impossible for one person to finish, hell, even for four persons, which is the body count of the department.  But most important of all, I do have a girlfriend, well, a boyfriend for that matter, and this job would kill this relationship faster than any of us cheating on each other.   I have little to gain from this and a lot to loose, there is no business there for me, which is sad because I really clicked with a lot of people there, but fuck it, if I could impress five gringos, I can impress the locals, so, keep the interviews coming.  This is not about getting the first job that appears, this is about getting the right job for me.

So, what do you think?, am I doing the right thing, or am I making a mistake?, well, like everything in life, I might regret it later, but I can live with that.

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