Sticks and Stars

I just officially accepted the new position.

I talked to both the person currently doing the job (who is, perhaps, the prettiest boy alive. I am so sad that I will no longer have opportunity to gaze at his slightly scruffy visage) as well as the person who previously held the position and they both gave me interesting, although quite divergent, information that really helped make up my mind (or cement my decision rather, since my mind was pretty much made up from the moment the IS director told me that Pretty Boy was leaving).

Pretty Boy is not at all geeky and has no desire to be (blasphemy!). He liked the position in the beginning but then once he’d mastered SQL, he became bored and felt like there was really nowhere to go. The thing he liked most about the position was that he got to work with people from all over our agency (I could absolutely care less about that).

Techie Boy (who held the position previously) is geeky and ultimately gave up the position because he wanted something geekier. He too got bored once he mastered the SQL, but when he heard that I was ultimately interested in programming, his eyes lit up and he said he thought this position was an excellent place to start with much opportunity to head in that direction.

I’m so glad I talked to both of them. I was originally going to talk only to Pretty Boy (because I didn’t know that Techie Boy had also held the position) and after I was done talking to him I was worried about my future, that I’d be entertained for three months and then stuck in absolute boredom (much like my current job but with lower pay). But Techie Boy reassured me. Indeed, I might be bored after three months, but it sounds like opportunities for expansion will abound.

My supervisor will be pissed when she gets back from vacation on Monday. She’s been joking about IS stealing me away from her, but I don’t think she really thought it would happen.

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