Would you take this job?
My first boss (from Fall 2003) asked if I was still interested in a job with his office today. Here’s what’s entitled:
Position: Software Developer.
Pay: ~$55,000
Committment: 3 years.
Hours: ~20 hours/week (until I finish grad school, then 40 hrs/week)
Benefits: Fully paid grad school (probably at Johns Hopkins) to get my CS Masters Degree, 26 days leave/sick days/yr + federal holidays, health care.
So why wouldn’t I (or anyone else) want this job? It’s sorta boring. I’m not designing nukes or viruses, or nanobots that can take over the world. My dad always said to figure out what you’d do for free, then find someone to pay you for it. This isn’t something I’d do for free. My current job on the otherhand . . . I need to talk to them about a job offer.
Going back home put reality back into my eyes in terms of future. Here, we’re all talking about where we want to work and how much we’re gonna get paid after we graduate. We throw around numbers like 10,000-20,000 signing bonuses, 70k starting salaries, and big names like Lockheed, Boeing, and other defense contractors who want people like us. At home, two of my friends are unemployed (one’s collecting unemployment), the others don’t really like their jobs and spend 2+ hrs commuting each day. At school, people graduate not knowing what they’re doing the next year, living at home trying to find work. I’ve become spoiled, taking this incredible opportunity that God’s given me for granted. I find more and more, that I’m lured by the salary to work someplace else. Am I going to sell out the place that I’ve always wanted to work, the possiblity of the job I’ve always wanted, in a place where I’ve become established and have ministry opportunities all for an extra 15 grand a year with a 5 digit signing bonus? My mettle is being put through the test and I hope to come out refined remembering my purpose and calling as a kingdom worker and a sender.