New employment?

I finally took the plunge and started looking for a new job.  Not that my current one is in any way bad compared to most of the world – I’m rather well-paid, I sit in an air-conditioned office on a 750$ chair, I get to do creative work that I enjoy from time to time and most of the time I don’t really have anything to do.  Sounds great on paper.

However, I like to work.  I do the job that I do because I enjoy it – if I wanted to make shit-tons of money I’d go sell my soul and become a salesperson somewhere, or go back to school and pick up an MBA.  Money’s out there for anyone as long as you feel like whoring yourself out, but I’d much rather make my living doing something that I enjoy.

So after a couple of months of having very little work to do, I broke down, cleaned up my resume and sent it out – I applied to three places on Wednesday night around midnight.  Thursday morning around noon I hear back from the job that sounds most promising.  I have an interview Monday.

The job sounds great – it’s a small company, and over the phone the guy was most concerned with “if you fit in with the rest of us here, personality-wise.”  The job description was more like the description for 5 different jobs, which excites the hell out of me.  I miss wearing several hats at work, but I was always afraid that I was going to have to stick at a corporate-style job for at least 3-4 years more before getting back into a small technology company.

I took a half day at work and went to buy a new dressy interview shirt and get a haircut.  Come Monday, I’ll be one swanky-looking motherfucker in my blue-with-white-vertical-stripes dress shirt and my pimp-ass silver and purple tie.  Yeah, so my fashion sense isn’t the best, fuck it.

As I figure it, it’s going to come down to 2 things – if they like me from their side and if they’ll pay me enough from mine.  That’s the problem with these smaller companies, you get perks like “casual atmosphere” and “relaxed workplace”, but “not enough money to pay you for the job you do.”  Here’s hoping things work out from both sides.