Saturday Skype

Normally my Saturday Skype sessions occur fairly early in the morning (before lunch at least) and they are fairly relaxed conversations about nothing much with The High Flyer. That’s how Skype calls should be!

            Over the past few months, with interviews taking place with America, Singapore, Australia and Germany, I have started to use Skype more as the work tool that I know it probably always ought to be, so I’ve become used to having to be a bit more professional and up together on these calls than I have been in the past. However, this weekend was the first time I have had to embrace a work call on a Saturday.

            At half five I had a call scheduled with one of the jobs that I have been interviewing for recently (the more recent one – not the one that has been dragging on for over two months already), so despite the fact that I was still fairly hung-over, and our house was full so I had to take the call from the comfort of my bed, I had to try and get my mind back into super-professional mode (with the inevitable aid of a huge cup of tea).

            I was worried that the call would require my brain to work it’s way through a string of tricky ‘final round’ questions, and that he would expect me to have prepared fabulous questions for him. Thankfully, rather than it being another interview round, this call was a very informal offering of a job, with a quick run through of basic info that he wanted to ensure was factored into the full final offer breakdown that they would be sending me in the next few days.
           Hurray! I’m still yet to hear back from the company that has taken two months to work through the basic interviewing process, but this chap (from a small start up data company that would offer me an impress chunk of equity if I were to go and work for them) has been so keen and efficient that I think I’m currently a lot more tempted to go and work for them. He ran through the work Visa first round checks with me whilst I was on the phone to him, and it sounds like he’s going to go out of his way (even more than he already has done) to make sure that I’m happy with the final offer than he provides me with in the next few days. It’s a shame that I invested two months of work in the other company now, because I have a feeling that this super keen, super smart chap might be the sort of boss that I need in a new market….great times!