So two of my friends lost their jobs in the last week. One was laid off two days before the company laid off everyone else and closed its doors, making severance that much harder to get ("HR department? They went home for the day. Err, I mean forever. Try back later?"). The other, after pulling so many 12 hour days to support thousands of users, picking up the slack of her coworkers, closing trouble tickets at twice the rate of her three coworkers combined, was informed that she wouldn't be getting one of the spots available once the current project finished. Reason? Not a team player. Makes me sick...

Anyhow, today another friend of mine is interviewing for a spot in my department at Yahoo!. I really hope he gets it (and not (just) for the referral bonus). Ernie's been doing this kind of work for so long, and has such a passion for it, that if anyone has the spirit to bring more to the job than is just required, it's Ernie. After whoring himself out to one flailing dotcom after another, he deserves it. Heh; he also feels guilty for interviewing at the 'hoo 12 days after starting a contracting position at the largest US office building after the Pentagon. Well, we'll wait and see.

Like one of you said after my 'middle' post a couple days ago, there's good-good decisions, good-bad, and bad-bad decisions. Sometimes the thing to be most thankful is that you have a choice in the first place. I shouldn't take it for granted that two choices is infinitely better than no choices.

I may be in the middle, but only for as long as I choose to be. I wonder if it's the security blanket of alternatives that's so hard to cast aside and make a choice.