As I mentioned previously, I left my job at Swan Labs last Friday without any real job plans and ended up at the end of my first day of unemployment with two job offers. I didn't really mean to get the job offers that quickly as I thought I might take a bit of time off first, but it's nice to be wanted and nice to know that you actually do have a job to go to eventually. I'm going to take a week off and start the following week at a company called Seven Networks.
Choosing between both of my offers was one of the most difficult job decisions I have ever made. The offer I didn't take was at a great and growing company with a great product and great team that is doing very well financially and is a place that I would have been virtually guaranteed to make a very significant amount of money in a very short period of time through options, etc. I chose not to join the company because what it does is very similar to what I've been doing for a while now and I really felt that it was time for a change. However, the money I'm most likely leaving behind could have been quite a nice boost to the bank account and probably covered a cash home purchase in this very overpriced Bay Area.
In the end I chose Seven and there is of course always the potential to make money there, but it is nowhere near as emminent and nowhere near as guaranteed. I probably changed my mind a dozen times over the course of the week and talked to quite a few folks at each of the companies trying to gain better insight into their companies and what working there would be like.
