I NEED ADVICE!
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- k0na_an0k0
k0na_an0k could you run through your decision in more detail...?
just interested.
de4k
(Nov 30 04, 06:57)
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yeah sure. 4 years ago i was let go from a company for much the same reason. no work... but in reality the management just plain sucked. they bid 12k for a site with absolutely no functionality and for a non for profit organization after i told them to bid 3k. unreal.anyways. they let me go december 1st, 2 months after i had just bought a townhome. i was devastated. after almost going mad and not knowing what to do a gf of mine offered me a job working with her and her dad at his company. i would be a 'manager' for his plastics factory making a wage that would def. keep my head out of water, her dad offered me 60k. which was kinda dumb cause i was def. not management material then. my grandfather pulled me aside and we had a heart to heart. i told him i was scared that if i took this job i'd get stuck in a rut and never come back to design. or, i could scape by for the next few months looking for a design job. he said to me 'do what you love and the money will follow.' he told me that he said the same thing to my uncle matt when he was my age. after he quit his high paying job that he hated, went back to school and barely made ends meet for the next 3 years, he now live very well off with his new career.
so. i didn't take the job. had to sell my $1500 mountian bike for $700 on ebay, my bedroom set, my stereo and had to work weekends at a gym to make ends meet. but eventually they did.
not that i'm making 6 figures, but 4 years later i finally found a job that i'm secure at, and have moved up the corporate ladder enough where my next step will hopefully be at a large ad adgency in the city. i've had to take a lot of chances and sacrifice more than you know, but looking back it was all worth it.
i still have yet to buy a replacement bike but maybe that will be this year.
the end.
doug