I'm Saved

Not to be overly dramatic, but my cousin is saving my life.

He offered me a job yesterday. Here's the details:

Salary - $80k/year + a $20k bonus + benefits (this is almost doubling what I make now)

Location - We're going to try it out for the first 6 weeks or so with me NOT living in Hong Kong. If that goes well, I can live in either NYC or Atlanta. He doesn't care. I'll take extended trips every now and then to Hong Kong when needed. He pays for the flights and I get the miles. If he decides that he needs me to move then I'll go.

Hong Kong - If I move there he'll pay all my expenses (rent, utilities, etc.)

Time Commitment - None. I can quit whenever I want. No hard feelings.

Job duties - Travel arrangements for he and his family. Some financial stuff for his family. Coordinating their big move to London next year. Other small things here and there. That's it. He said, "So you'll have free time to do your photography or whatever you want to do."

London - They're moving there this time next year. He's going to fly me out there a couple times so I can get a feel for what it's like and see if I want to live there. If I do move there he'll pay for my rent and utilities there as well. So even though London is so expensive I'll actually be able to have a life there. A good one.

Start Date - He's flexible.

I'm finding out by the beginning of next week if the site I'm working for is launching on August 20th. If it is then I'm going to stay there for the 1st 2 weeks of the launch to help them work out any kinks and see what the work load is like. If it's a lot of work and I wouldn't be able to do both jobs at the same time then I'll give them my notice 2 weeks after launch.

If the site doesn't take up that much time I'm going to talk with Randy to see if he minds me working at both places for another month or two so I can pay off some debt. I suspect he won't like that though because part of the appeal of hiring me is that I can go to Hong Kong for a month on a moment's notice. If I have another job that's no longer the case. But it won't hurt to ask.

Job Growth Potential - Randy said, "If you do some studying and if you're interested, I'll give you say, $20 million, and ask you to invest it. We'll see how you do. If you do well then I'll give you $200 million to invest and we'll keep going."

I said, "[Siiiiiiiiiilence] Huh. Interesting.
I thought, "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!!! ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?!?!?!

I majored in Finance and although I don't remember ANYTHING from my major at least the aptitude is there. Since I won't be working too hard for him I'll have plenty of free time to read all the finance/business trades and get up to speed with that world. And I'll actually find that section of the paper interesting now that I have a vested interest. Not sure what my cut of that will be but whatever it is I'll take it.

I'M SO FUCKING HAPPY RIGHT NOW I COULD CRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHO DOES THIS HAPPEN TO? WHAT BAD THING IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO ME TO BALANCE IT OUT?

Maybe I'll be all alone in life, but you know what? I'll be rich and I can sleep with a big fat wad of Benjamin's next to me. I'll even give them their own pillow.

So I'll start working for him in mid-September...try it out for awhile and if I don't have to move to Hong Kong then I'll decide if it's worth it to stay in NYC and pay rent or if I should just go ahead and move home to Atlanta and pay off my debt that much sooner by living with Mom & Dad.

I have $23k of debt and I could pay that off in 6 months if I didn't have rent. Maybe I could live at home for awhile and when I get bored move to Hong Kong. Since Randy will pay for my rent there I might as well have the adventure. Travel to places in Asia I haven't been yet.

I don't know what I would've done without this job offer. I've been looking for months for something else but haven't found anything that would pay me well enough. And this site bores the shit out of me even though it would be a dream job for someone else. I just don't care about it. So the thought of working there for a long time depressed the hell out of me.

My dream is to actually do a good job with the investing and make some money so my dad doesn't have to sell office furniture anymore and can go ahead and retire. He just told me yesterday that he's probably going to have to work for another 10 years before he's financially ready. Hopefully I can work hard and shorten that to 3 years for him.

THEN I'll buy a pair of shoes for myself.

LIFE IS GOOD!

And yes...if I ever leave this job I'll be asking my friends if any of them want it :)