A Change is Coming

 After a long week of deciding, I signed my contract yesterday to become the new Sales and Marketing Operations Manager at a fraud company. It was especially tough because my boss (who I love) and his boss both tried to convince me to stay this week, offering to match and also change up my role. But I think I was already set on leaving. 

I had been feeling bored lately and not so impactful. That, combined with the layoffs we had a few weeks ago, made me decide to start looking for a new position. Also, there were meetings and topics that I would have wanted to be on, and I wanted to be much closer to the actual data itself. It was tough for me to grow at Pano, because we are a huge ops team. And also, I started looking in June, got 3 offers, and decided to stay - so I knew this time it wouldn't be long until the next time I realized it was time to leave. So when this opportunity came around, it was very tempting. It is the first time they've had this position, and it is a new and exciting company. 

I get to build it up from nothing, with systems I know. I get to manage events, and even fly to a couple a year (hello baseball games). I get to grow both on the ops side and also the marketing side. An I get to be a trusted partner of the leadership team. And I get to bring home another 5k a month (before taxes), which will be extremely helpful right now.

The four reasons why it was so hard to leave were: 1, I will probably never have as good of a manager as I have now. We are so close, best friends, and work amazing together. 2, I will probably never have this good of a team, where we are friends and enjoy coming to work. 3, finally, marketing leadership is the best I have ever been working alongside, and it was tough to leave that. 4, my work-life balance was incredible. I tried to ensure it would be the same here, but you just never know.

BUt I used my decision making excel and also asked myself if I would be excited to come into work on Monday if I decided to stay, and the answer was no.

Now I have to tell everyone which I am not excited for. But once I get through that, I will be extremely excited, especially to be on top of chicken station.