The decision

Ok here's what went down.

Last Wednesday Bo's Coffee guy met with me to "give me an offer". We met up at Galleria and he let me know how I would be placed into their company. Well things look great with them, they're growing, adding more branches and looking to make their team bigger for the coming year. Pretty aggressive which is good. I would be handling the opening of a new branch in Quezon City and improve on three branches in the Ateneo area. That would be my starting point and from there I'd grow with their boom.

One bad point though is that Bo's Coffee guy said that my asking price was too high. He told me to give him a number I'm comfortable with that was below what I was asking, and let him know if I'm game. So to recap that, good opportunity, a chance to learn new things, interesting business but slightly low offer.

Then I went over to Wideout, which is where I worked before. Company's been doing fine, also growing, also aggressive. New management too so I was curious how it was. Basically my job there would have less scope than before but more focused on making a system happen. It would be less lax than before and more intense since everyone I know who's still there has picked up their game. Good thing, salary was higher than what I was getting before.

Bad points? It would be the same environment and might be considered a step back since the work has diminished a bit. Working hours would be at night to coincide with my new boss, hopefully it gets more flexible. And I guess I would be dealing with the same people, which isn't really bad but somehow people value more and more contacts. I don't understand it but I guess it might be true. 

So what did I choose? After thinking it out for a day and consulting my parents (painful but useful), I made a decision to come back to Wideout.

Well it can be viewed in a lot of ways but I guess my decision was based on these major thoughts:

1. Although the coffee place sounds like a good place to learn and experience new things, it will be worth it only if I stick it out for 3-4 years (when the work/pay ratio will be awesome). I'm considering working for one year then ship myself to MBA school. 

2. Traveling to QC and back will take crazy amounts of travel time. Wideout is conveniently 20 mins away. If you're thinking I should get out of my comfort zone, try sticking it out on EDSA traffic on a rush hour.

3. There's almost no transition stage for Wideout since I worked there for nearly 3 years. That against proving myself for a year in a new company, then ditching.

4. I believe there's a version of me who'd take a risk in a new company and do something great there but I'd leave that guy in the dark for now. I'd like to think that there's more of a challenge in doing something more in an old company.

5. I won't lie, I'm a sellout. I also want to buy a lot of stuff.

Sometimes I feel bad about the Bo's Coffee people, growing company and good people. I'll have to support them another way. Probably buy more coffee from them, Starbucks can suck it.

So I guess that's one problem down, unless this brings up newer problems. But good problems nonetheless.