Sometimes life tries to test you by sending bad circumstances on your way. But there are times when life humors itself by giving you one too many good things to handle. Things that rifts the road in front of you into one major fork.

The grapevine of authority in the firm has given me the opportunity to go to the U.S. To a lot of other people this is something that is a chance worth grabbing. But there is always a fine print, and in this case it’s more than one thing: Firstly, I will have to stay there for a whole year and secondly, I will be binded into a contract (again!) for another year when I return. So basically I will be forced to stay with the firm for two whole years.

As if to toss gasoline into the fire, a new firm has called me last Friday to schedule a meeting on Monday to talk about me moving with them. This new firm works practically the same way as where I am at, but a little better with the travelling. Suffice it to say I am a bit confused right now. How do you choose between Family, The Firm, and the New Firm?

My monday afternoon schedule looks like this: I’m having my meeting with the new firm, then I’ll drop off my U.S. Visa requirements with my present one. Talk about juggling…