{"id":490,"date":"2008-08-09T23:10:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T04:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=490"},"modified":"2009-01-26T22:46:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T03:46:36","slug":"giving-up-a-sure-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Giving up a sure thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my job situation just keeps getting interesting.<\/p>\n<p>In my last article, I talked about stepping out on faith and getting a job by when I said I would. Since that contract offer, I&#8217;ve interviewed at two companies, and my experience with the second company has led me to do something I&#8217;ve never done before, and that&#8217;s turn down work.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, Andrew Wireless wanted me to start this upcoming Monday on the contract. My interview with Advanced Neuromuscular Systems went really well on Friday, and they said they&#8217;d have a decision on me by Monday. Based on my gut feeling, I turned down the contract so I could be in a position to accept an offer from ANS. Doing that before Monday may have been crazy, but I gave my word to Andrew that I&#8217;d let them know by Friday whether I was showing up or not, and I didn&#8217;t want to lead them down any more primrose paths by stalling them. That&#8217;s not fair or right, and I&#8217;d rather be as gracious as possible under the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s pretty much shutting the door on any future employment at Andrew. Can I live with that? Yes. I&#8217;m not happy to have caused a headache on their end, but they&#8217;ll find another good person.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll talk more about ANS once I know if that&#8217;s my future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my job situation just keeps getting interesting. In my last article, I talked about stepping out on faith and getting a job by when I said I would. Since that contract offer, I&#8217;ve interviewed at two companies, and my experience with the second company has led me to do something I&#8217;ve never done before, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/?p=490\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giving up a sure thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perspectives","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lopeyland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}