This is my last week at my current employer. I’ve been there for ten years and am really looking forward to this new change. But its going to be hard to leave behind my friends and my comfort to take on this new and more risky endeavor.

I saw in the news that the stock price of my new employer sank by 28% in one day because some clinical trials indicated that the dosage of their drug needed to be lowered. To me this seemed like a very small thing, but I guess the analysts know a lot more about this stuff than I do.

Right now they’re focusing on some drugs to treat hepatitis B and C, but they’ll eventually be selling a drug to treat HIV as well.

Then I read this headline:

Gilead AIDS Drugs Show Prevention Promise
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Medical Writer
ATLANTA - Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases jolted the world, scientists think they soon may have a pill that people could take to keep from getting the virus that causes the global killer.
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Now don’t get me wrong, I want a cure as quickly as anyone else, but all this news has introduced more doubt about my new employer’s stability. Its a little unnerving. Nonetheless, I feel confident that if something did go wrong I have skills that would put me in high demand in a lot of places. Additionally, I suspect my current employer would also welcome me back.

So I think I’ll be fine no matter how this shakes out. But this is a move I need to make for my own sanity.

I’ll let you know how the sanity-thing turns out.

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