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I got a new job! I'll be starting at PayPal Boston on June 4th. I'll be joining their web team, doing mostly Ruby on Rails and Javascript. The Boston office is basically Where.com, which PayPal bought last year, so it's still somewhat of a startup environment, but with the resources of a large company (PayPal is owned by eBay). They are doing some interesting things, and it seems like a great team. I'm pretty excited.
I have one more week working at my current company, MCNA Dental. There had been many ups and downs since I started working there in December, but eventually it became clear to me that the reasons to leave were starting to outweigh the reasons to stay, and I started accepting calls from recruiters. At first I was just looking around to see what my options were, and there were several false starts, but after a couple months of "stealth" job search, I was lucky enough to get a few offers. It was a tough choice, but in the end the PayPal Boston opportunity felt like the best move for me.
They say that it's easier to find a job when you have a job, and I can see some reasons for that, but personally I found it very stressful. The tech job market is pretty hot right now, so I probably could have been more open about the fact that I was looking (or just outright quit), but I wanted to play it safe, which basically everyone I asked advised me to. I'm not sure I would advise the same.
I have one more week working at my current company, MCNA Dental. There had been many ups and downs since I started working there in December, but eventually it became clear to me that the reasons to leave were starting to outweigh the reasons to stay, and I started accepting calls from recruiters. At first I was just looking around to see what my options were, and there were several false starts, but after a couple months of "stealth" job search, I was lucky enough to get a few offers. It was a tough choice, but in the end the PayPal Boston opportunity felt like the best move for me.
They say that it's easier to find a job when you have a job, and I can see some reasons for that, but personally I found it very stressful. The tech job market is pretty hot right now, so I probably could have been more open about the fact that I was looking (or just outright quit), but I wanted to play it safe, which basically everyone I asked advised me to. I'm not sure I would advise the same.