Some guilt feelings about new job and a potentially better one...sigh [View All]

[The Straight Story]

So for many many months I was out of work. I took the first job in the tech field I could get at really crap wages and a loser for a boss.

So then I get in with a new company with a really cool guy for a boss and a job I love, and I have helped it out a ton in the last 3 days (he was a paramedic and got thrust into the computer role years ago, and my skills have helped him get things going better already).

So within the last three days I have had 2 more companies express great interest in me. One I told to take a flying hike, the other one though is more money, free cable/internet/phone, etc and when they emailed me back (after 1st interview) asking me to call them I didn't. But they called again today and spoke with the wife and asked her to please have me call them as they don't want me to get away.

I called them and told them I would talk with them next week.

But I feel really bad about it all - I got this new job, just two of us in the tech department, and they took a chance on me. But on the other hand I could have a much better career with the larger company and better future and benefits.

For about 8 months, no calls. Now I am bombarded with them it seems. And this latest opportunity is a step up. There are other factors (the company I am with is privately owned, and if the owner croaks etc, do I have a future?).

I dunno, I try to be as loyal as I can when someone gives me a job and a chance, but on the other hand I have family to worry about.

Damn.