James's Weblog

After six months of relaxation, unemployment, and waiting for a job offer, I now have two in the pipeline.

I should be excited. Instead, the ordeal of choosing is putting me through agony.

They’re both good jobs. Had I received either offer a few weeks ago, I would have accepted it in an instant. With two simultaneous offers, though, I’m completely bewildered. I didn’t interview at both companies at the same time either; I interviewed at one in January, but it’s a startup and didn’t have the funding to hire me at the time. Even stranger, I sent both companies my résumé last year, and they both promptly ignored it. Things have a funny way of coalescing.

I feel bad because I don’t want to reject either one. I feel even worse because these days, there are plenty of people who would sell their mother to have one job offer, let alone two.

Stupid conscience.