Good call!

Sales engineering is a great fit for people who have analytical and people skills but who don’t necessarily want to skew too hard in either direction (I.e., hunting leads or building product).

At my $2b tech company these folks are very well regarded, well paid and very busy.

I don’t know the day and time I was expecting, but Sunday at 4pm was not it.

My team, the Suburban Trivia Dads (STDs) plays at Big Spring Spirits in Seven Fields on Wednesdays at 7. They have it every week through Trivia Jockeys and draws a 30s-40s crowd.

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1. Pick the car you want.
2. Contact dealer 1 and ask for best price out the door
3. Contact dealer 2 and say “I want this car. Dealer 1 quoted me $X out the door. Can you beat it?”
4. Contact dealers 3/4/5 and repeat. Go back to Dealer 1 and repeat.
5. Arrange financing from bank/credit union, and buy from whoever gave you the best price.

Contacts can be done entirely by email.

Sugar plum fairy n’at ‘ll be dancin’ dahn there at Benedum don’t yinz worry.

I like going to Apple Castle, getting a gallon and heating it with mulling spices, and adding rum as appropriate.

My wife, a high performer with a good motor, did this after we had twins - 3 days a week working from 600-230 as an engineer.

This lasted 3 months before we figured that the difference between what she earned and what we paid the nanny wasn’t worth it.

This was 7.5 years ago, and she hasn’t worked since.

I think much of the success of this plan depends on the individual’s role. In my wife’s case, she was very much client-facing, and they didn’t care about regular days off.

Asking questions will not hurt her career, by the way. Things have really improved in many organizations for new parents in the last decade.

Good luck to you both!

I love to see the labor market efficiently sorting people.

Move on, but be gratuitous and professional on the way out. Leave a big sappy farewell LinkedIn post and tag your boss. One month into your new job, send your boss an email about how what you learned helped prepare you so well for this bigger role.

Then, if your new job sucks, you can ask for your old one back. Lots of people boomerang.