So just a few days later since my gloomy prediction I am about to pull the plug on my current job. After almost three years it feels pretty weird to think that I could move somewhere else in two weeks. I got quite used to the team and the code base although I am also a little tired of both :)
And I am pretty scared to be honest. I will lose all kinds of nice things such as matched 401K, HSA, 3 weeks of vacation, a very relaxed environment, and a 30-minute door-to-door commute I spend reading blogs. And all this for only a base salary (+10K which after taxes at best will be the same; though they promised to improve benefits late next year) and minimalistic health insurance.
But it will be in Silicon Valley (for the first time!), in a startup (but this time with very cool VCs and experiences founders who sold companies before), working on a platform in areas related to cloud and analytics and joining early enough that they have only a prototype in progress and a few technologies still not chosen.
In the nearest future my commute will amount to 90 miles a day which is as awful as it sounds - and more so because of heavy traffic so wasted time will by no means be 90M / 70MPH :( Some telecommute will be possible later but short of actually moving to SV there is no cure. The funny thing is I moved into my current apartment (which I like very much) just a month ago after a long time looking for a decent place in the area ..
But I feel so excited about this opportunity that I could probably accept it just for sheer fun of having engineering challenges with a few cool technologies in a green-field development.
Fasten your seat belts, it is going to be one helluva ride!
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