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comment by blackbootz
blackbootz  ·  2940 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: April 6, 2016

I really appreciate the feedback, and the encouragement. About the money, I had a few back-and-forths about it, but he's pretty firm on the figure. Which he, by the way, thinks is slightly above market value for me. I'm gonna put it to him that we review my value and my compensation by the end of the calendar year. So I'm not as excited about the money piece. But when I think about the sum of the opportunity, I feel like I'm getting 85% of what I reasonably could expect, and there's a lot of perks and future good experiences built into the deal.

It's important to me start this thing as excited as I can be. Not a fake enthusiasm, but from a place where I'm not focusing on what I didn't get but all the good things. Because while I could walk away and stew about how my first interesting non-restaurant non-volunteer job should pay higher, I don't know if I'll be better off by, say, the end of this year. Whereas if I do this, I'm sure I'll be better off for it.