Making hard choices
From time to time, we all have to make some hard choices in life. Recently I went through just such a time, when I found myself with 3 different job-offers, that I had to act on relatively swiftly. Now admittedly, this situation belongs to the luxury category of problems, but none the less, it represented a serious decision making challenge to me. None of the jobs were perfect in all aspects (I don't believe such a job exist), so depending of the time of day, I would lean towards one of them, only to change my mind later on that very same day. Clearly, I was in need of a more objective and systematic way of analyzing my options. Prioritization and rating A simple pro-con list did not do much for such a complex scenario, and neither Google nor any of my "self-help literature" had any obvious tools. However, by attacking the problem in a divide-and-conquer fashion, realizing one can't compare apples to oranges, things started to look a bit more clear to me. Aspects