Am I a bad person?
So, my previous post said I was hired by New Horizons. Now, 3 weeks later, I write here as a Joe without a job at New Horizons. That's right. After months of job searching, I finally got a job and quit 3 weeks after being hired. But, I do have a few reasons. First is because I was offered a job here in Burlington doing web programming for a small company. Pay is comparable and I don't think I'm going to wake up feeling sick everyday. While I don't think I totally botched anything at New Horizons (hey, they didn't fire me), I just never really felt comfortable there, especially in a teaching environment. There's a reason I wasn't anywhere near being an education major. I'm not that kind of person (meaning I can't ever really see myself talking to groups of people all day pretty much every day). Way too intraverted for that.
It was a real tough decision for me to quit working at New Horizons. It seems like my job offer timings were just terrible. As soon as I got hired, I had two other companies looking at hiring me, and one extended the invite. I still actually feel a little bad about it. I didn't even work at New Horizons for a month so I don't think I really contributed that much. I'm sure that they'll be just as fine without me though.
Apart from being offered a job 1)closer to home and 2)in my field of study, I also feel that I can perform this new job much better than being an instructor at New Horizons. I don't think I'd ever truly show my true potential there because of the teaching environment I'd be in most of the time. And if I don't feel 100%, I know thats going to show in my classes. And if I can't give 100%, I don't think I should risk potentially losing customers of a company. At least in programming, I'm not directly responsible if things really go bad (as long as I get my programming done).
So, this coming Monday, I begin my 2nd "real" job with the ECA Group here in Burlington. Maybe I'll actually be able to write more in the blog (I don't think I did for the past few weeks because I didn't want to just totally rip on how I felt about my job with New Horizons).
It is good to know that if I ever need to take some computer classes or certification tests, I know a great small company in Greensboro that I wouldn't have a problem giving money to.
It was a real tough decision for me to quit working at New Horizons. It seems like my job offer timings were just terrible. As soon as I got hired, I had two other companies looking at hiring me, and one extended the invite. I still actually feel a little bad about it. I didn't even work at New Horizons for a month so I don't think I really contributed that much. I'm sure that they'll be just as fine without me though.
Apart from being offered a job 1)closer to home and 2)in my field of study, I also feel that I can perform this new job much better than being an instructor at New Horizons. I don't think I'd ever truly show my true potential there because of the teaching environment I'd be in most of the time. And if I don't feel 100%, I know thats going to show in my classes. And if I can't give 100%, I don't think I should risk potentially losing customers of a company. At least in programming, I'm not directly responsible if things really go bad (as long as I get my programming done).
So, this coming Monday, I begin my 2nd "real" job with the ECA Group here in Burlington. Maybe I'll actually be able to write more in the blog (I don't think I did for the past few weeks because I didn't want to just totally rip on how I felt about my job with New Horizons).
It is good to know that if I ever need to take some computer classes or certification tests, I know a great small company in Greensboro that I wouldn't have a problem giving money to.
posted by Joe Magyar at 10:16 PM
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