So to say...

It was brought to my attention by <lj user="fringefaan"> at The Pike Place Pub and Brewery last night that I was looking tired.  This is true.  It was also brought to my attention by <lj uder="libertango"> that he was deeply confused about what I was actually now doing in my life.  This is also true.  In the words of Basil Fawlty... let me explain...

Tired:  I am tired at the moment.  Every time I think I've reached a new level for workload, there just seems to be more and more of it.  The next few weeks are insane on that score and then, hopefully, I'll have more support.

Job/Life: Ok, so this is complicated, and I'm pretty deeply confused about things.  Here's a run down:

1. A few months ago I was made a job offer in Seattle by our US company.  It happened about the time there was a new CEO and a huge re-org.  The offer wasn't fantastic and had a lot of blank, "we'll figure this bit out later" areas.
   
2. My job is kinda complicated.  I effectively look after all work relating to a large software company in the Pacific Northwest.  They spend a lot of money with us, but more importantly they enable us, as a business to work their customers - of which there are lots.  I spend a lot of my time not just selling work to them in Seattle but also support our global sales effort towards their license holders around the world.
3. Under the current organisation, I work for a business unit and get paid and rewarded based on how sucessful that unit it.  Under the new org, the idea will be to have people undertaking global roles and supporting activity around the world. 
   
4. If I move to Seattle, most of the work I do will be outside of the US region, supporting sales in Taiwan, Korea etc...  so, while the relationship here is part of my job, I cannot rely on a bonus stream from locally sold work.  At the end of the day, with the payment and reward structure an unknown I turned that offer down.
5. The company responded by saying that the new CEO wanted to create some new global roles and that I was a perfect candidate.  So last week I had a day of interviews in Sweden, a personality test and was given an overview of the new role
6. The new role would be a promotion and would be offered in conjunction with career development and support to allow me to formally move into a senior management role with people reporting to me.  It would still be based in Seattle and a new offer is likely to be made reflecting the new job and new role.

In conclusion, the tactic of rejecting the offer seems to have worked and hopefully I'll be made a new improved offer which is better for me and also for the company.  In terms of timescale, we'll probably move sometime in the early part of the new year.

In other news: tomorrow, as some well wishers have pointed out, is my birthday.  I'm going out for beers and food tonight in Belltown, then tomorrow I'll fly down to San Francisco for the weekend.  Then back here for the week, and then over to NYC for next week end.