About My Old Job

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My dad and I were talking recently when we were camping, and somewhere in that conversation my old job came up. "Would you ever go back?" he asked me. I hesitated. As a general rule, I never go back to a former employer. And there were circumstances that didn't feel good at all when I decided to pack it up and hand in my resignation. There are even some fairly deep wounds still there. But I did finally say, "Maybe. If he called me, I might consider it." At the same time, the conditions upon which I'd return would have to be considerably different, mostly regarding compensation. I have different goals and different plans, of course, and at the same time I know things after the fact that I didn't know then. I also think a new pay structure, while it would probably be a bit of a pay cut for me, might be more conducive to the office's success overall. At the end of our conversation, I generally concluded, "I'd be open to having a discussion with him." But I did also tell him that I was doubtful that 1) that phone call would ever come, 2) that too many egos were clashing and 3) that my former employer has ever once even considered it.