Continuing the story from part I…
AWS gave me a four year offer as they do everyone. My original goal was to use the four years to:
- Pay off all of our debts
- Save money
- Put ourselves in a position where my wife wouldn’t have to work even if my next job was paying less.
- Learn what I could and improve on my weaknesses.
- Be able to put I worked for Amazon on my resume and make my resume more competitive.
- Build my network.
Notice that “sell everything we own, move to Florida and travel half the year was never one of my goals”.
I have to say that while I left a year early, all of my goals were met.
This is a tough market for people working in technology and I was worried that it would take me longer to find a job than usually did with all of the people looking for fewer roles…
To be continued…
