Rethinking Monday. Finished Thinking Thursday.

As I wrote two days ago, my directory came to visit us this past Wednesday. Bright and early yesterday morning, he and I had an hour long chat, 1-on-1. Besides the various queries I had on the future of our design team, our product roadmap, and corproate initiatives, I also made what I consider to be a definitive statement. It may yet turn out to be the turning point in my career, but that's still too early to say. In short, I indicated that I'd like to be considered for a manager position should one open up in the future.

Just this past Monday, I was still rethinking whether I really wanted to be a manager. Yesterday, I was done thinking. But even while I was saying this to my director, I was thinking about something else in the back of my mind. The hedge, if you will. The backup plan. The job opportunity presented by a recruiter two Mondays ago. I'm still unsure what to do with that one. Interview just to see what's there? My only concern is that they'll offer me $$$ I can't refuse, but will feel like crap taking it because I'll be leaving a great job with great colleagues all for some dirty corporate dollars. Ugh...I feel dirty already.

Right now, my feeling is that I'll most likely stay at FluxCorp. I may still yet go for the interview, but since I know a couple of people that work there, I'll need to do a bit of espionage first. In the meantime, I'm going to kick back and enjoy reading some of my fellow bloggers over at my favourite engineering blog. This week's theme is all about engineering education.