While I've been waiting for my background check to finish so I can start my new job, I've gotten about a dozen calls over the past few days about other jobs, and am only pursuing direct hire opportunities. I have an interview today with a company that's literally a 20 minute walk from my house. This would save me from about 4 hours of total daily commute that I'm going to be committing to for the next couple months with the job I've been offered.
There are going to be about 5 executives from this company interviewing me, including the HR manager, CIO, VP of Operations and VP of Project Management. I'm not too nervous about it because the spread of expertise means we won't be discussing my technical clout very much, just putting my personality on display.