Extended is the Offer
So Profunksticated logs into the back end of his blog early Wednesday a.m. and finds eight, count ‘em, eight comments in moderation! You guys are da bomb!
The offer has come. An IT consulting firm in Rockville has extended me a proposal specialist job offer, which I accepted over the phone this afternoon while vacationing with the fam in the OC of MD. This came right after I got off the phone with another firm, with which I set up an interview on Thursday. I just sent an email to that firm suggesting we cancel since I have an offer.
I had to drive back Tuesday evening from the OC of MD back to the NOVA area to prepare for an interview later today that I set up two weeks ago with an NJ-based engineering firm with an office in downtown Alexandria, which is really close to my spot. I told the human resources rep of my Rockville offer, but she advised me to go ahead with the meeting with the hiring manager since she made travel arrangements to meet me in the DC area.
While en route from the OC of MD to NOVA, I was rudely reminded that the Delmarva Peninsula serves as one long speed trap. I was busted in the LaSabre doing 70 mph in a 55 mph zone by a Maryland trooper along westbound U.S. 50 in Worcester County, MD. The fine: $90. I’ve been flagged twice before on the Peninsula, both times on U.S. 13 in Delaware.
Profunksticated will say once again that God is good. He helped me back in May come into a bunch of perfectly good Xerox printer cartridges that the firm I just left was going to throw away. You see, the company sold the building we were in and I was helping to clean out the production supply closet. So I threw away 11 of these cartridges since the firm was gonna use a different brand of printers, e.g., not Xerox, at the new location.
It was after I went back for more for the cartridges that the production guy said, “Someone could get paid from these.” The light bulb went off over my head. I backed my minivan to the building and began gathering all the cartridges I could. I even walked into the open end of the dumpster to see if I could salvage the cartridges I just threw in there, but I saw some were broken, so I left ‘em.
But I ended up with about a total of about 25 cartridges, some of which retail for between $100 and $200, along with developer and fuser oil. Guess where they ended up? EEEE-Baaaaaay, babeeeee! Suffice it to say your man Pro made enough cash, ends, dinero, to carry him through this short period of unemployment. The printing stuff cost me nothing. Pure profit! I couldn’t believe the production guy didn’t keep ‘em. He instead salvaged one of those large plotters that make large prints, like engineering drawings.
Anyone who knows of any businesses closing and getting rid of stuff please let Pro know! This eBay bug has bitten!
Congrats! Does this mean the fam will be moving?
That question comes up a lot, K. At this point, no, only because selling our house in NJ would be kinda tough. We’ll see where we are in 18 to 24 months, though. Thanks.
Comment by K. — July 2, 2008 @ 9:51 am
Oh congrats man!!!!!! God is good. God set you up to get that stuff to sell. Then you took the ball and ran with it–straight to eBay!
Is it s perm position?
Thanks, Hostess. It is a perm position. And thank God for eBay, theirs and Paypal’s fees notwithstanding. LOL!
Comment by Hostess — July 2, 2008 @ 10:23 am
I’d say that was a pretty nice hook-up there God gave you. He rocks! Completely.
Congrats on your cup being so full you don’t have room enough to receive. It feels great to be wanted in the employment arena. Knock em out on the next interview. You may get a better offer than the one you just got! Way to go, man!!!
That last interview was done yesterday Wednesday, 7/2. They seem interested too. I was honest with them and told them I’d verbally accepted an offer. The woman asks, “what are they offering besides salary? Sign on bonus?” I said, no. I’m thinking, OK what are these folks gonna offer, if they offer anything? Thanks much, A.
Comment by A — July 2, 2008 @ 8:47 pm
YAY!!!! get it! bless the Lord, oh my soul. and i love rockville - nice place to work (and eat, shop and live).
congrats man - if we listen carefully, we juuuust may be able to hear you breathing sighs of relief and hear the sound of your face cheesing from ear to ear.
i’m soliciting advice here: if you get multiple offers from respectable organizations, all offering the salary you desire (or more), how do you go about choosing which to accept?
get it with your ebay hustle! that’s what i’m talking about. i seriously need something like that to help cushion my pockets. i’m about to go through my pad and find something to sell, LOL. i’ve never done Ebay before - i went to the website one time and it scared me :-S
Yes, Dragonfly, I am relieved. I’ll be even moreso once I pass the dreaded 90-day probation period. Multiple offers? You’ve gotta weigh salaries, the commutes, the type of work and the people you will be working with and for. And of course, you know that you gotta bring God into the mix by asking Him what His will would be as far as employment, ‘cause after all, you’ll be His ambassador in the workplace.
And do that eBay thing, my sister. One woman’s trash is another’s treasure!!!
Comment by dragonflysoul — July 3, 2008 @ 10:53 am