Close Race for two employers

I’ve never felt so wanted — and confused at the same time! My current employer did a counter-offer. While I can’t say specifics about the numbers, I will say he included an offer to work on a cutting-edge project that’s being done from the ground up. By cutting-edge, I mean Oracle + JSF + AJAX. [...]

Resignation still stands

Yup, I got to talk to this managing consultant yesterday. He described some of the projects their teams are working on. They all sound good. I’m not really picky with whatever projects I’m given to work on.
But.
I’m still standing with my resignation.
Why? It’s a job. Java, J2EE (or Java EE nowadays), technology in general, [...]

Resignation blues: offer and counter-offer

I filed my resignation last Friday. I stated that I was given a chance to work with really technical and challenging projects, and that I’d accepted this offer. My boss was caught off-guard. He asked me to see him anytime at his office, and I did so late afternoon yesterday.
He was really grasping for the [...]

Disturbance in the (work) force

Well now, I haven’t been able to blog as much as I want to lately. The reason being, I’m about to change jobs and I needed to tie up some loose ends before moving on.
It’s still a Java dev job, but the projects sound lots more interesting than what I’m working on now (or not [...]

Headbanging

I always was a headbanger, what with my taste in punk and indie rock, but I never thought I’d ever bang my head literally!
Yesterday on the way out of an office, while looking down to my shirt pocket and reaching for my ID tag, I ran headlong into a freakin’ glass wall. I banged my [...]