Career Decisions

Just when I was starting to think I made the wrong choice when I decided to leave Dynamic Graphics almost 2 years ago, I get word that there are talks progressing to sell them to Getty Images. I don't know all the details, but the rumors I've heard are that Getty has a reputation of buying companies only to close them down. I'd hate for that to happen to the people in the Peoria office, but I could see the writing on the wall years ago; so I can't get myself to feel too sorry for them. The previous owner, David Moffley, really seamed like he wanted to build something with Dynamic Graphics. He made it a point to tell us that he had been approached many times by Getty to sell, but he wanted to protect the company and the people. (I guess I wasn't there so maybe they just didn't offer him enough) Either way, he ended up selling to a company that convinced him that they were building something great. What I saw after Jupiter Media purchased Dynamic Graphics was a company that wanted to grow without regard to product or the people working there. That was enough for me to believe that Allen Meckler was in it for the money and not the business. I am at the point in my career that I either need to go to a small company like what Dynamic Graphics was pre-Jupiter Media (that was a job I could feel passionate about and really wanted to work hard), or go to a large fortune 500 company where I can get lost in the shuffle and finish out my last 30 years of the daily grind.