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Posting from Safari sucks. Nothing works in here. :P

So yes, I talked with my boss (and the other guys that are sort of over me) and I told them about the job and then I cried like a dumbass. I don't know, it doesn't bother me that much - I mean, whatever. But they didn't try to murder me and they were nice, and they tried to make me a very very very tempting counteroffer, which ultimately wasn't tempting enough. ;)

And then the next day I talked to my boss some more, and he wanted to talk me out of it, and said that he just wanted to make sure I was looking at this the right way, and so we talked and he asked me a bunch of questions about informatics, which was cool and nice of him, and as we were talking he sort of started to get less convincing, and by the end of it he basically said that he thought i was thinking about it in the right way, and he really wanted to stay, and he thought that staying in Pittsburgh might limit me, and that it gets harder to move around as you get older, and he wanted me to think about it more and tell him later, like on Thursday, what I thought for sure.

So I think I am going to tell him today, because I don't see any point in waiting. I think I am sure.

Agata had an interesting point. If what I want to do is be in the burgh, then going there isn't exactly a limit, it's what i want. It's a self-imposed limit, in the very least. And I have to admit there's an arrogant voice in my head that just laughs at the idea of any limit at all. I'd be embarrassed and tell it to shut up, if it hadn't gotten me so far already. ;)

One of the things my boss talked about was the different career paths one could take, and if you wanted to become a design manager, then this is the perfect place to do it. This only helped convince me more, because there's no companies like this one in Pittsburgh that would then allow me to be a design manager back at home. And he also said that if what I wanted to do was become a freelancer or eventually have my own firm, then somewhere like Informatics might be better.

Which is what I was thinking all along, but never told him.

Anyway, I'm feeling pretty good about this, so I'm glad. It will definitely be my decision this time. Now if only I could get some dates set in stone (or even clay!) I'd be happy. (Excuse the geekiness.) Yeah, yeah, who knows. Thank God this will all be over soon.