Bunny’s TMI

I had to get up early for my neurology appointment, which I still ended up being late to due to getting lost driving… and then getting lost in the building too. I found out my headaches are actually migraines (usually- it depends on the type of pain). The Dr. wants me to keep a headache log, so I’ve decided to try using Twitter via IM as a log since it captures the date/time and I almost always have easy access to IM. More so than a piece of paper I’d have to remember to carry and pull out (and I type faster than I write) or an Excel doc I’d have to email or edit online. I guess I could use google docs, but I think I’m preferring Twitter already.

Going out for $1 sushi tonight with friends, and I need to get back to some lunch time phone calls I need to make.

I’m actually staying at my current job, they were able to match (and actually beat!) the other offer, so the only real worry I had about switching jobs is gone. I don’t have to feel guilty about leaving so soon, I don’t have to deal with the stress from switching jobs and starting new again. And I’m really happy and able to really settle in at work even more now that I know I’ll be here until my fiance graduates and finds work somewhere.

It was a really hard decision to make, the new job sounded really fun, and the people seemed really nice and were so excited, so turning them down was really hard. But leaving would have been even harder. I had to do what was best for me health wise.

Anyway, time to get ready for work!

So the job situation is up in the air somewhat at the moment. Either way I have one, and either way it will be transitioning to an alternate schedule December 2008. Hopefully it gets settled soon so I can put the stress from making these decisions behind me.

I’m looking at redesigning the site with just CSS, so I’m going with the boring default for a bit while I test things out.

I have a backlog of updates to do, but this one can’t wait.

Thursday I interviewed for a 50% time web job on campus. I was supposed to hear back from them next week, but they called today with a job offer. So now I have some decisions to make.

They can’t offer me the max pay for the position. But! They offered to make the position full time for a set number of months (the number of months needed to pay off my debt) before going back to 50% variable. They also sounded ok with the fact that I don’t want the position to go back to 100% after my debt is gone. Temporarily for certain projects sure, but long term? Not so much.

If I do this it would also be only a slight raise compared to what I’m making now. I need to crunch the numbers and be sure that I could still pay all the necessary bills once I go to half time.

Possible downsides: My current bosses and coworkers (except for the token one person of course) are awesome and I love working with them. That might not be true at the new position. But if it is then I can just look for a another new position or see if my current one is still open.

I feel bad leaving my current position after barely six months with the training they invested in me.
On the other hand, I don’t want to let guilt keep me a wage slave.

Also as far as the guilt goes, I also mentioned that I’d like to give a month’s notice instead of two weeks and they were ok with that too. And the temp my current boss has right now might be interested in my position, which would make it easy to train my replacement.

I considered the possibility of working both positions at half time until they find a replacement, but that can take a long time and I don’t know that I could handle the added stress. My therapist already warned me that working two jobs halftime each is more tiring than one full time job. I’d still be available via email/phone/im to answer questions.

So the last question is really can I afford to go half time with the pay they’re offering? Calculator time!