Excited!

As weird as it sounds to call a (rather flegmatic) person 'excited' ;-)), today I actually AM EXCITED!

The past months I spent hunting for a job. I spent over two and half months only applying for jobs in the UK and Ireland (kinda difficult when you're based in Czech Republic :), without much success and actually not even an interview. It was in the end of october, that I started looking for a job in the Czech Republic. And 4 weeks down the line, I'm finished. The czech experience was exactly the opposite to the UK and Ireland. For every job I applied for, I ended up with an offer. I avoided the mistake (or perhaps more precisely a not-so-well-thought-out step) of taking the first or the second offer I get - as I did the last year.

Last friday I ended up with a kick-ass offer from a czech company. Took 4 days to decide. In the meantime got from a first contact to a second stage with another company. The ONE. After the second interview I knew I really wanted this job, over the kick-ass offer, - this one was uber-kick-ass. But there was one catch.

Actually quite a big one: I needed to turn down the first offer, without knowing the result with the ONE company. - possibly ending up with nothing.

Decided to take the risk, and - suffered quite bad through the last two sleepless nights. :)

In the end, - it paid. I GOT IT.

YEEEEEEEYYYY!!!

Honestly speaking, I think I got the best what I could (while keeping both feet firmly on the ground).

Learnings?
- You need to make it through the swamp, before you reach the land.
- Fairies won't help you from hunger, they're not made out of real flesh.
- The more times you escape fairies, the better chances you get out of the swamp.
- However, escaping the fairies is not your ultimate goal.
;-)