The new job?

I hate LinkedIn. Its such a corporate place to be. I am inherently not a corporate person. I am not someone who likes to answer questions without answering questions. I don't like to misguide people. I also don't like to brag. LinkedIn is all of these things. I tried to follow the rules that my career counselor told me. I "friended" lots of people. I reached out to people who might know hiring managers. I put in lots of resumes. I chose a cover photo. I put in all kinds of "skills" and I got "comments" from people I had worked with. I was contacted by several recruiters. I did talk to some people. At one place, I gave a talk over zoom. It was a weird talk. Then this one company got in touch. I remember their ad because it was the most basic thing I could have written. And the salary was pretty low, but I figured that was negotiable. The job involved something called "spatial" which was something I could do, so I applied. 

I heard back and I talked to HR for a bit. Then I talked to another person. Then they asked me to give a talk on zoom. At this point, I talked to a friend of mine who had also applied and interviewed, but the company would not budge on the salary. I figured a job was better than nothing. I had to think of my family. And my mental health. Being unemployed is not good for me. So I went ahead with the interview.

I couldn't tell what the job was. I didn't really understand, and there was not much description of what I would be doing. It seemed like a new team? That they were hiring? Or maybe I was starting a team? It was all unclear. It took forever to get the offer. Then I rejected it. Then I had to talk to someone else. Then they made me another offer. I could tell HR was not happy to present me the offer. They seemed entirely reticent to tell me about the salary because it was so low. The salary was almost a full $20K less than I had been making before, even though I now had a "higher" title. But it was a job offer and it fulfilled some of the things that I needed - not a long commute, a job, a salary, etc. I started early November, 2023. Here I am. At a new job....