When It Rains It Pours
As everyone knows my job ended in June. I have been looking since then, actually hoping to get back to Wachovia since it is close to the house and doing a bunch of merger work. For those of you unfamiliar, if you are a Project Manager in this town you pretty much work at Wachovia or Bank of America – sure their are smaller places too but in this economy those are scarce and frankly bad news creates jobs in my line of work just like good news.
So on Thursday I get a call from a head hunter about some positions, they sound interesting then he quotes me a figure – uh I don’t think so. I tell him, sorry too low. He is taken aback because there are a lot of people out of work and willing to sacrafice a bit. Okay in some cases $10,000-30,000 – I am not one of them because the minute you sell yourself cheap you NEVER get it back (I learned that early on)
Back to the story, guy asks me what is my minimum and I give him a figure, he says how about we meet halfway, I tell him minimum is minimum sorry. He tells me economy bad blah blah blah. I tell HIM that my minimum is the LEAST that I am worth and that I will wait for the right job. And end the call.
An hour later he found a way to meet my minimum…I swear some head hunters are like bad used car salesman.
Two hours later he has an interview for me. Cool.
Three hours later a gal I used to work with has an opening on her team and wants me to apply for it. Cool! so I apply.
I call my friend who I used to work with to tell her and her boss hears us talking and takes the phone from her and wants to know if I would come work on their team if he can get funding. I tell him I have a few irons in the fire but sure. He is a great guy.
Have the phone interview with job one and it seems to go well. Two hours later they offer me the job. I tell them I need to talk to the other two and see what is up before taking it. Head Hunter says they loved me (DUH! I am of course ME!)
So I have at least one offer and two potentials. None from Wachovia lol. Guess it always happens that way.