tbergeron

Yesterday something funky happened to me. I received yet another job offer, but this time for a very well known UK company. A dream opportunity.

Basically they'd love it if I would move away from my home and family in Canada to join them there. They're inviting/paying me to meet the team for one day to see if I like it and if I like the project/team/etc.

Following that request, a bit dizzy with the "holy crap is this really happening?!" feeling, I talked about it with my family to see all their faces going pale with fear of losing me forever.

I'm used to traveling, I've spent several months away from Canada for various reasons such as working (not it-related at the time though). They know I always come back home, I love it here but I feel like I'd me missing something huge that could totally redefine my life even if I don't speak a word of that country's main language.

I'm currently 25 years old, I've been working for a startup for the last year and a half and have received a partnership request from my client which is great but sometimes I feel like the project is slowly drifting apart, my client has a job, kids, a wife and way more priorities than I personally do. It's a lot on his shoulders with the investors pushing in his back.

I have also a girlfriend of a few years, animals, a big and full apartment, etc.

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So the reasons I'm asking this here are: - Anyone lived the same? What was your decision and how it ended up? - Did/Do you like the experience of working abroad? - Considering the wall of text I just wrote ^^ what do you think I should do? - How did your family/peers reacted? Are they mad or something?

Thanks to whoever takes the time to reply, this is very important for me.

Have a nice day.

All of this is very frustrating with only a little panel to see my email list. This whole "view" is flawed IMO.

I believe email clients should have something more of a "file browser" view with medium/large icons (enough to content from/title/date/etc) and easy way to put emails to different folders. So you can have a peek at the whole inbox at once and quickly eliminate non important emails.

Also I think email clients are in great need of a very good filter system with easy access. Gmail filters are amazing but I'm having a lot of trouble using Gmail on a daily basis I just don't know why. I think filters should be more easily reachable. So I'd make a "Contains pictures" filter, a "Contains text document" filter and a "VIP" filter for very specific person that I know sends me email only on a very important basis.

All in all, I don't have a clue about how it should look. Every last attempts at email clients I saw were in my opinion disastrous. There's still a few projects ongoing but I still doubt any of these will change this fundamental problem.

It's not about the protocol, emails are fine I don't want another Google Wave I just need a better way to manage these messages. Sparrow is nice, I use it daily even if it's not in development anymore but it's not enough powerful, it has a lot of wasted potential (since development stopped).

One last thing: I tried several other email clients with power features but all of them have crippled UIs and almost no development updates anymore.

So let's discuss, what do you think? How do you manage these tons of emails? What do you use? Any suggestion for me about how I handle them and what I should use?

Thanks and have a nice day!