For the first time ever, the woman from company #2 got back to me when she said she would. I am blown away.

I got the verbal offer last Friday. It will be made official...sometime this week. Sometime. Sounds vague doesn't it? That's because it is. The problem has been this:

The company is American with a Canadian presence across the country. Until two weeks ago, there was a Canadian HR person taking care of Canadian HR stuff. They quit, leaving my boss (who now needs a name...I'll call her Dee Dee, or just Dee) stuck. She doesn't know how to do anything in HR. Furthermore, due to certain changes, she now has to deal with the American HR people who don't know anything about Canadian HR. She is figuring out what to do bit by bit. Oh, her boss went on vacation Friday, so she's on her own for this. Furthermore, she's going on vacation on the week of August 14 for I don't know how long.

Basically I am going to start a new job in a new industry in a new language, and I could be mainly on my own.

On the other hand, I am making progress: it's a job I've had before, but it's a new industry. Hopefully I can get involved with all kinds of projects and handle them, thus driving up my value both from inside the company and from the outside.

I may be faced with a major dilemma, though: if this comes through, I have no choice but to jump. And I would feel like a fucking heel for it. But it's a better problem to have than choosing between drug dealing and prostitution.