Sunday, August 26, 2007

Doubleshot of the blog tonight. Some updates on the job & home front this week. Had a phone call with someone from GE this week, a job I was hoping would work out. But they wouldn't pursue it further unless I agreed to move to Schenectady, NY. No way. Then the recruiter tries to sell me on Schenectady by saying "well, we don't get near as much snow as you did in Michigan, but it does get pretty cold." OK, first off it's not the snow I don't like, it's the cold that goes with it. Going through a winter of teen-degree cold for four months and having it only snow like 3 times sounds absolutely depressing. At least if it's going to be cold, yeah, it better frigging snow.

A couple of other job things are in the works. I have been extremely interested in a company called Hewitt Associates, and I finally got a call from them last week. I hope that works out, or something else in their company. They do HR outsourcing (mainly benefits, although apparently some payroll, both of which are my specialty), but more important than that a lot of their employees work from home. That'd be awesome. For this particular gig, I might have to travel one week out of every month, but I can cope with that.

Ash spent the week packing and getting us ready to "move" up to the farm this weekend. Our plan is to sell the house in Columbus, but because we have three dogs, that would be a pain to try and sell the house, what with all the loose hair and general stank. So we're staying up at "the farm", my FIL's place where we got married. I got back from ATL Thursday night, did some packing, moved our stuff into storage all day Friday and Saturday, and then packed our essentials up and convoyed up to the farm Sunday. I spent much of the day getting the Tivo up and running, and hooking up our computers. I finally got some consistent internet here now that I brought up my own router.

Hopefully this move was temporary. Best case scenario, we'll be here until I find a job hopefully in the next month or two. Worst case, we have to stay here until the baby is born. Absolutely awful case, I don't find a job and we get evicted because technically the farm is up for sale. Knock on wood that it doesn't sell anytime soon, no offense to my father-in-law but I hope nobody likes the place. We love it though. I just don't want anyone else to.

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