After the last marathon of interviews at Huawei Technologies (Ghana) I thought everything was settled. Well not quite, as it turned out later.

I was invited back to their office last Friday, the 18th of July, to meet the Managing Director. Which I did.

After a lengthy conversation, they’re still going to “get back to me”. The issue? They’re not convinced that I’m going to stay for long. And I understand their concern. Many people have been in and out — most from KNUST, the only technological university in Ghana. So why should I be trusted to stay on?

And for my case, two additional issues seem to raise more alarms in their thoughts: a) I’ve flipped jobs a bit since graduating in 2002, and b) they just can’t understand why I left a high-paying job in 2005 to engage in voluntary work. In their minds, there has to be something wrong else which I’m not telling them.

Well, while I cannot say I’ll stay with them forever (who can really say so to an employer and mean it?), I really don’t have any immediate plans for anything else: I just want to settle down. I’m not “shopping” around for jobs, and I’ve already decided to let go of my prior plans for grad school.

And I’m not the fresh college kid I was, back then.

So I’m still here waiting for them. Hopefully I wouldn’t have to wait for long.