So a few days ago I was contacted by an old Wink coworker of mine. He left me a message asking me to give him a call when I had some free time. It turns out he just joined a new company that is starting to rapidly expand and they had a position that he thought screamed my name. It turns out they are building their IT infrastructure and want someone to take the lead on that project. Now this strongly coincides with my current goals of starting a business that builds SMB infrastructures.
BUT, my initial reaction was to possibly decline based on two reasons:
1) I may have to quit in Dec 2005 because of possible plans to travel outside the US. This is a very strong reality for me and I don’t want to put a new business in an awkward position of starting to build everything and then take off. 2) At first, I wasn’t sure I had the skill set to design/build the IT infrastructure yet. That is why I’m currently studying at Berkeley, and working on my RHCE, to fill in any of the holes on system/server design / best practices. But I took another look at the job posting and all of the points they are looking for I have (except for the “OpenExchange” experience). And looking back at the job posting, I think I may have read more into the scope of the position than what is actually needed. (but I’m not sure)
So even after I gave them two wide berth warnings, they still want me to send them a resume and come in. They said I was well spoken of. (always a nice thing to hear 🙂 )
Now I need to update a resume that I haven’t touched in over 5 years….ack. Wish me luck.