Hey Stillhope - Yeah I'm thinking I may take it regardless. It would put me to work while I wait for a potential spot at a local university. A good friend of mine works in the IT dept. there and they are looking to hire another install guy. Good pay and great benefits, including 4 years of free tuition for our D16. This is actually what we are most worried about right now, the financing of my D's college education. It'd be really great to get that one as the tuition there is worth about $250,000 for four years (private university)!!!
I had been at my last job 19 years and knew guys that had 20-23 years. It was in telecommunications engineering and over the last 12 years I've known literally hundreds of people personally that got the ax (also lots of job outsourcing, software went to India). The whole industry has gone down about 75%. I was actually one of the lucky few that got to hang on for so long. A stupid merger finally did us in, and I mean do stupid, very poor decision. Once they merged I knew we only had about a year left and that was a pretty accurate prediction.
Healing ok still, although my mother-in-law's dachshund stepping all over my package all day today didn't help much.
Not much to report on the romance front as I'm still not quite up to ML. At least my timing was good as it's "that time" for W right now.
