Ouch.

[Peter Korsten]

Op 30-10-2011 12:52, Jay Vaughan schreef:

> Won't be terribly difficult for us, at least until I find something else.  I must avoid startup dilemna, though.

Well, in the late nineties, I used to work at a dot-com. Very exciting 
time, Friday afternoon parties at the office, and the sky seemed to be 
the limit. We got this gorgeous office in Amsterdam, across the road 
(and the water, obviously, this being Amsterdam) from Central Station.

After I left, things went awry a bit, and my former colleagues spent a 
few months without wage, before the whole thing went belly-up.

Where I work now (mobile telephony/total telecom operator), and have 
done so for almost 11 years, is perhaps not the most exciting of places, 
but it's stable and I actually enjoy most of it. It's nice to receive 
your wage before you have to pay the mortgage or the rent, and to be 
sure that you will  actually get paid - something that wasn't the case 
at MagicMinds.

So... if you have the really-exciting-but-could-go-bankrupt-any-day 
start-up on the one extreme of the spectrum, and the 
boring-I-hate-my-job-and-I-want-to-die on the other, you'd have to find 
something you like to do, and still provide a stable income for your 
family. In my as usual frank and blunt opinion, that's the most 
important thing.

In that, I wish you the best of luck. It's a bummer that the thing with 
Spantec didn't work out; you were very excited to go and work there. But 
as others have mentioned, I have absolutely no doubt that somebody with 
your impressive CV will find a great job in no time.

- Peter