OK.

Well... we see. I lean Nvidiawards again but I have to see the details of the offer.

Waiting today. Probably getting a book on shell scripting sometime. What's a good one? Is there a definitive animal-on-the-cover, I wonder.

Plus and minus

Nvidia
Opportunity to move (+/--/??)
More interesting job (+)
Hard work to the point that it's a bit intimidating (-)
Better cow orkers (+)
See bay friends from time to time (+)
Telecommute 3 days/week after two months (+)
Two months in the bay (---)
One week in six in the bay (-)
Nvidia stock (+/+++?)
Health insurance (++)
Permanent (+)
401K (+)
PTO (+)


Cirrus
More status quo (+/-)
Less work (+)
See kids and Sherilyn every day (++++)
Clearly some office politics (-)
No telecommute (-)
Contract; no bennies, no stability (--)
Marginally more money (+)
Very little coding (--)


The family is on such a different axis than the rest of this that it's not so simple as adding up the plusses and minuses... but this does clarify my thinking. The only downside to Nvidia -- the only one -- is the family time. If I make them a clear priority for the time I'm not in the bay, and do what I can to get them out to visit me when I *am* in the bay... ingh.

I will cope. But what if after three weeks the kids and the wife are just wrecked?

Then, I guess, we come to the point of either quitting or putting the house up for sale -- neither of which I would particularly want to do when the wife and kids are wiped out... but it would at least be a strategy to move out of a hole.

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