Found out why I got a raise so easily last time.  A couple of weeks after the raise, we were surprised with the news that we were acquired by a much larger company.  New company is part of the global fortune 500.  Since then I've been going mad with the M&A activities.  Their people do not know what sleep is!!!!  Holy moly.

My vacation that I booked a couple months ago turned into a working vacation.  My whole family and I caught Covid during this time, so I ended up working with my head in the cloud most of the time.  Thank goodness we finally finished with the bulk of it.  Now it's time to slowly transition the work over. 

The good news is that this company has a high percentage of employees who have been with them for 10, 20, 30+ years and the various people I've spoken with seem very nice.  The bad news is most of the work I've been handling will be gone.  They have multiple teams, one to handle each of my current tasks.  We're 1/10 the size of the division that bought us, and they don't have enough bandwidth to fully absorb all of our works, so some of us will definitely be staying.  However, there's a very high chance the ones staying will be assigned to one of the teams and end up doing repetitive work in a very niche area.  Which is not at all appealing.

Now on to the difficult choices.  Two of my old colleagues recently reach out to inquired if I'm interested in joining their companies. 

One works as a chief growth officer at a small but rapidly growing company and asked if I would be interested in a manager position.  Their HR however, sent out an invitation to interview for a controller position!!! What kind of bait and switch is this?  I did a bit of research as well as review the job posting and while I can handle most of the responsibilities, some will be a bit of a stretch and I'll have to go above and beyond to get them done satisfactorily.  Another issue is every single controller I've know has not been able to take a single week vacation in multiple years.

The other is my former director, currently works as a controller at a non profit organization.  She's been trying to convince me to join her company and will be creating a position tailored to my needs if I'm interested.  Although if I join, there is an extremely high chance she'll try to push me to take on the responsibilities of a director because in her opinion, I can do it.  Urgh!

Both have been bugging me non-stop.  What's the deal with people keep trying to get me to take on so much responsibilities?  I just want a highly paid position where I can just work my 8 hours and shut my brain off afterward.