August 4, 2011
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Job interview!
Although I like the job I now have, and it pays me VERY WELL and I can work from home 99% of the time, I still have to commute to Chicago occasionally and I’m getting tired of it. I bought my car less than two years ago and already have 40,000 miles on it.
I updated my resume on Monster.com a couple days ago and have been getting mostly recruiter calls. Today a local business called me and talked to me about a position they had open for a programmer and database administrator. I passed the first interview (HR/phone) and will be meeting with the HR person and the Director of I.T. tomorrow at 1:30 pm.
I have mixed feelings. I love working from home but lack the self-discipline to actually put in the amount of hours I’m ‘clocking’ on my time sheet. (I do not overstate billable hours, just non-billable to pad my time out to 35-40 hours a week.)
This will be in the corporate office of a federal credit union. I’m wondering if my neighbor had anything to do with this (I don’t remember sending them my resume.) All I know is that he heads up the department that includes I.T. in the corporate office of a local credit union.
I’ll post my impressions tomorrow.
Comments (5)
Oh, that is exciting! I don’t have the self-discipline to work from home at all. Fingers crossed for you. And I’ll be watching for your post tomorrow.
Good luck tomorrow! It would be interesting to ask where that particular credit union is, in terms of keeping pace with technologies offered by commercial banks (like BofA or Chase). Are they moving toward developing mobile apps, better online commerce apps? (on the down-low…the “bank” where I work? Is a credit union.
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Good luck! I love working from home, when I can (even though the dogs don’t quite understand the concept). I find when I work from home the hours I work probably don’t add up to the hours I would spend in the office, but the amount of work that I get done is so much higher – I can get a lot more done in a shorter period of time when I’m here. Plus, I like the flexibility of being able to take the dogs for a walk or throw a load of laundry in the washer while I’m listening to painful conference calls
I don’t know if I would want a job where I work from home all the time, though. I think I’d miss the face to face interaction with people.
@ExLibris - They talked a little about it in the interview today. They use a program called Scimitar (?) and they are working on mobile apps but in a very limited capacity. I am likely not going to accept an offer there. I doubt they would match my current salary anyway.
@Tyche - That’s exactly why I like working from home. I don’t much miss the interaction with people – besides, there are only 6 other people there and they are all male. Kind of like my living environment lol