Follow The Bouncing BCCI -

Follow The Bouncing BCCI - The Berg Consumer Confidence Index took a quick tumble yesterday on news that the interview last Friday had come a cropper.

Although things were still basically healthy (on the strength of two current contracting jobs), the BCCI (like the stock market itself) is all about psychology. So while I headed to yet another interview yesterday, all the ingredients were there for a major drop:

• The position had been sold to me as being not quite what I want to do - more like what I did seven or eight years ago.
• The money, while not bad (especially after nine months of un/underemployment, isn't stellar.
• I got to the interview realizing I had no money for parking, and had to wing it in the middle of the Warehouse District.
• It was explained to me as a "part-time" gig - paying enough to keep me off enemployment and giving me time to work other gigs, which is fine, but tiring.
• I was very tired, having been up working most of the previous night on one of my other projects.

So it didn't seem all that promising.

Boy, was I wrong. Cool interview, great time, and it could turn into an amazingly cool job - one of those "Jack of all trades" things I love so much. And it's in the Warehouse District of downtown Minnepolis, which after nearly ten years of almost invariably commuting to Eden Prairie or Chanhassen or Minnetonka or Maple Grove (from my place in St. Paul), is almost dreamy.

So the BCCI could spike one way or the other fairly shortly here.

Posted by Mitch at October 10, 2003 05:59 AM