HXBC.us - 竹難月金

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> Options are strange things.
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> Back when I was graduating from college, when I suddenly realized I was graduating that semester, there was a little bit of panic about what I was going to do after. So I sent out a few copies of my resume, went to a couple career fairs, and before I graduated only one place offered me an interview and subsequently, an offer. The choice was fairly simple: take the offer and go travel for 2 months, or turn down the offer and figure out something else. Not having much savings the decision was relatively simple to make.
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> Fast forward more than 6 years, I was having the urge to leave and join a startup. Since I have a tendency to be lazy and stay comfortable, I wanted to make a decision quickly while I still felt the rush. Plus taking days off to interview was getting tiring. In the end I took an offer out of two from the three places I interviewed at. It was not a difficult choice either: one place was doing something I can easily relate to and has an proven business model. It doesn't hurt that the offer was also superior in just about every way, at least on paper.
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> As the offers started to roll in, I am having to choose between different options again. The difference is that this time around none of the options is significantly better than the others. The difference is this time around I have a new option that I never (thought I) had: the option to not make a decision. Which makes everything so much harder, because of the vast number of (theoretical) future options. Of course, choosing "none of the above" is difficult, because it feels so irresponsible.