Jobs

I verbally accepted a job with AAI corporation (they make UAVs among other things, and are a subsidiary of Textron) a few weeks ago.  Last week I signed all the contract paperwork, I stalled as much as I could for as long as I could, but eventually I had to sign the papers.  

This job pays great money, has great benefits, is in a pretty sweet area, and I found cheap apartments nearby with little trouble.  My specific role at this employer was explained in some detail, but as with any job you've never done before it's kind of hard to get a feel for how working that job everyday will be.  

On monday night at like (4:58pm) I got a call from a company I was applying to four months ago(GeoEye)  requesting I come down and interview with them.  This is the company that does the majority of the picture taking for google earth and pretty much any other service that provides satellite images that is not the military (although the military does contract them frequently).  This is also the same company that took those massive photos of the obama inauguration where you could make out a lot of detail (the pictures were taken by a satellite about 400 miles up and a few hundred miles south).   

I would normally just brush off the offer and ignore them, but this company was one of my top choices to work for.  The job description is one of the coolest I can even imagine (I plan and control the movements of their three imaging satellites to maximize the pictures in critical zones around the globe).  Plus from what I hear in general it is a very awesome company to work for.  

Its not that the job I have already accepted is bad, its just the job with GeoEye seems cooler.  The downsides of trying to drop the other job and snag this new one would be: lower salary, contract problems ditching the first job, the new job is in a much more expensive area to live (Dulles, VA), might have to work odd hours at GeoEye (they operate 24/7), and I might burn bridges with Textron.  

I don't think I'm going to take the job with GeoEye, but if they contacted me earlier I think I would be considering it a lot more seriously.  Seriously who waits 4 months before even so much as emailing back about an application, every decently intelligent person I know who would be qualified for this job has already taken a position elsewhere by this point.