May be getting an interesting job offer.
I went out to dinner with my dad a few weeks ago. My step-mom was out of town, and he had just got back from a Jazz Festival. He said some of his friends would be meeting him up there.
I met my dad, we had a few drinks, and then his friends started showing up. The guy that sits next to me is the husband of a good friend of my step-mom's. I had a huge crush on the guy's daughter in high school. And ironically, I saw her at a big business convention the week before, the first time I saw her in almost 10 years.
Anyway, we start talking and the guy asks me what I do. I tell him I currently did sales for a webhosting company, but previously I was a data center tech. I told him some other experiences I had too and what my interests were. I really want to get into facility management, since on my days as a tech I worked solo looking over an entire datacenter and had to not only deal with servers, but networking, hvac, etc.
He goes on to tell me that he recently took a job as a Senior VP of datacenter operations for a huge corporation, and he was going to need to hire some people. And that it is going to be management level positions. He even want as far to say "can i hire you now? i dread the interviewing process and you are more than qualified and I trust your dad."
I currently make $30,000 per year salary, plus about $500-$1,500 per month in commissions (some month's can be up to $8,000 in coms, but not usually). All in all, job nets about $55k per year, and it's easy to me. Stress free. However, I do have some debts with my parents totally about $20k, plus I have about $6,000 in debt.
Two of the jobs he knows he has to hire for are
1. Managing a datacenter in Atlanta. It's a small, 12,000 square foot datacenter. Has tech support staff, I have access to engineers, etc. He said he needs someone comfortable with datacenters, not necessarily a know it all. Pay would be about $78,000 per year, plus benefits. I live in St. Louis and would have to move there, and he said they would buy me out of my apartment lease and pay moving costs.
2. Inspecting datacenters around the globe. They have about 20 site's around the world, from Hong Kong to London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Paris, etc. I would be based out of St. Louis and would essentially be gone for 2 weeks, back for 1, gone for 2 weeks, back for 1, etc.. Job would pay about $65,000 per year, and would pay for all travel costs, food, etc. I would just show up to these datacenters, and essentially go over policy, procedure, and the state of operations.
This is what was discussed at dinner. He didn't have any cards, nor did I, and he said as soon as he was ready to discuss something he would just call my dad and give him his info. Well yesterday, my dad called, gave me this guy's email address, and said he wanted to sit down and talk. I emailed him today, and we've since setup a lunch meeting for tomorrow.
Which job would you be most interested in? I kind of like the idea of traveling and keeping my home town as home base (being back for 2 weeks at a time), but I could also use the extra $10k per month salary. I do think I would spend less living if I took the traveling job, since food and such would be covered for those times.
I went out to dinner with my dad a few weeks ago. My step-mom was out of town, and he had just got back from a Jazz Festival. He said some of his friends would be meeting him up there.
I met my dad, we had a few drinks, and then his friends started showing up. The guy that sits next to me is the husband of a good friend of my step-mom's. I had a huge crush on the guy's daughter in high school. And ironically, I saw her at a big business convention the week before, the first time I saw her in almost 10 years.
Anyway, we start talking and the guy asks me what I do. I tell him I currently did sales for a webhosting company, but previously I was a data center tech. I told him some other experiences I had too and what my interests were. I really want to get into facility management, since on my days as a tech I worked solo looking over an entire datacenter and had to not only deal with servers, but networking, hvac, etc.
He goes on to tell me that he recently took a job as a Senior VP of datacenter operations for a huge corporation, and he was going to need to hire some people. And that it is going to be management level positions. He even want as far to say "can i hire you now? i dread the interviewing process and you are more than qualified and I trust your dad."
I currently make $30,000 per year salary, plus about $500-$1,500 per month in commissions (some month's can be up to $8,000 in coms, but not usually). All in all, job nets about $55k per year, and it's easy to me. Stress free. However, I do have some debts with my parents totally about $20k, plus I have about $6,000 in debt.
Two of the jobs he knows he has to hire for are
1. Managing a datacenter in Atlanta. It's a small, 12,000 square foot datacenter. Has tech support staff, I have access to engineers, etc. He said he needs someone comfortable with datacenters, not necessarily a know it all. Pay would be about $78,000 per year, plus benefits. I live in St. Louis and would have to move there, and he said they would buy me out of my apartment lease and pay moving costs.
2. Inspecting datacenters around the globe. They have about 20 site's around the world, from Hong Kong to London, Amsterdam, Singapore, Paris, etc. I would be based out of St. Louis and would essentially be gone for 2 weeks, back for 1, gone for 2 weeks, back for 1, etc.. Job would pay about $65,000 per year, and would pay for all travel costs, food, etc. I would just show up to these datacenters, and essentially go over policy, procedure, and the state of operations.
This is what was discussed at dinner. He didn't have any cards, nor did I, and he said as soon as he was ready to discuss something he would just call my dad and give him his info. Well yesterday, my dad called, gave me this guy's email address, and said he wanted to sit down and talk. I emailed him today, and we've since setup a lunch meeting for tomorrow.
Which job would you be most interested in? I kind of like the idea of traveling and keeping my home town as home base (being back for 2 weeks at a time), but I could also use the extra $10k per month salary. I do think I would spend less living if I took the traveling job, since food and such would be covered for those times.
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