“we want you in house”
“They would probably want you in-house.”, she said. It wasn’t really a big surprise to me at all. But still I had been optimistic about our meeting. She seemed a little off, I couldn’t place what made her off, but she seemed uncharacteristically happy. Happy people make me suspicious, but as we talked I gathered that she just had a good vibe. She knew a bunch of the guys that I’m currently working with and I even shared some funny videos I have of them with her.
I told her how I loved my team at my job and how I respected my boss a lot, but amidst all of that I wanted desperately to leave. I was only half honest with her when I told her that the materials that we produced were both boring and uninspiring. I didn’t go too deeply about how much I hated being in an office, about how it sucked slowly any creativity or any drive that I have to work, I merely told her I preffered something off site.
As a recruiter, it’s her job to get us- developers, in-house at agencies for projects. Flash developers in general have been known to be flaky as it’s pretty easy to break commitments to someone that you only communicate via email if a job starts going out of control, which is normally the case in my field. Most times the people making the scheduling decisions have no real idea what goes into creating what we create and most don’t care enough to ask or listen.
I imaine that the other recruiter will want me somewhere in-house as well. If I can keep the projects short, I can rack up a few before I leave to Brasil and they will most definitely pay more than what I’m making now, and that’s really what I need, more money in less time.
I’ll definitely miss the guys at the job, but it’s almost at the 4 month mark. There’s no time to waste.