Today I accepted a new position at my job. I start it on Oct. 17th.
It all started during my semi-annual review a few months ago. My boss asked me if I'd be interested in a position in another group at my company. Now this scared me because it felt like he was asking me to leave.
One thing about the job is that it's very similar to my current job except instead of the technology department it's part of the risk department.
One weakness of my companies interview process was that they didn't ask me any technical questions. Part of the reason was due to the interviewer knowing me from previous encounters at work.
Another strange thing is that I didn't meet the boss in person, but I was interviewed by my new boss and his boss, both over the phone.
Early in the interview process I was asked how much money was I looking for so I blirted out a roundish number that was $15,000 more than my current salary.
One of the key reasons I got the job is due to my Excel/VBA skills. The risk department needs help in automation of report creation for various parts of my company.
One thing that came out of the new job was that I got a promotion because the salary I was asking for was too high for my current level.
I've been reluctant to tell people that I'm getting a promotion, especially one of my co-workers. He will go ballistic when he finds out that I'm at a higher level than him.
There were a lot of things I liked about my old job that I will miss. The clinching point was the promotion. I don't know how I could turn one down and stay where I am.
One wrinkle for me is getting access to my current machine when I move to my new department. I've been at this job for 9 years and over that time I have an enormous amount of useful tech that I would hate to have to develop again.
Now one of things I believed helped me was Scott Adams' the creator of Dilbert and his book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. In this book he talks about persuasion techniques that appeared to work.
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