Hurry up and wait....

Out of no where yet another "opportunity" has arisen. Of course, nothing is concrete, nothing has been offered, YET. I haven't even talked to the hiring manager yet. But hope springs eternal in the optimist.

So for those keeping score, I now have two permanent positions in less than optimum locations "simmering" on the back burner. And this new contract possibility that came out of nowhere already on the verge of boiling that is dead center in the middle of a "target rich environment". If I were there, I think that it would be much easier to work the connections to find that elusive permanent position. And, besides, six months from now who knows what the economy will be like but I am betting that the companies will have figured out how to deal with it by then. But, alas, no boiling yet.

I am finding (or reaffirming) that I am NOT a very patient person.

Happy 82nd (a few weeks late)

A couple of weeks ago we went up to see Pop and take him and Loretta out to eat to celebrate his birthday. The next morning we took a couple of pictures before we left. Happy 82nd Pop!

A rose between two thorns for sure!

Weekly update...

Okay, so another week has gone by. I got my hopes up when I found not one but two new job listings to apply for and a phone call from a head hunter with an interesting sounding job and since then.......nothing. No feedback. Just silence. I tried to call the headhunter back and first she was at lunch and then when I tried the second time she had 'left for the day'. So the receptionist put me through to her voice mail. Hopefully, she will call back tomorrow. I also called the guy that "interviewed" me at the Raytheon Job Fair a couple of weeks ago. Of course, it really shouldn't have been his job to get back to me (he is the manager that I would have been working for) but he gave me the 'uhhhh, we've already made all of the offers that we are going to make at this time....if you haven't heard from us......' You could tell he was REALLY uncomfortable but I would have been too in his place. Just another reason to be disgusted with HR people the world around. There were probably 150-200 people that showed up at that job fair and each of us had to fill out a "questionnaire" to get in the door. Why didn't some HR flunky take that stack of papers and cross check it against the list of people that had been made offers and send out "ding" letters? Because HR people just can't be bothered with doing their jobs I guess. End of today's rant.

Like some other people I try not to discuss politics but just can't stand to let the opportunity by to say, like the old saying, be careful what you ask for. I heard the word "change" bandied about a lot over the past few months. That is a lot different than "improve". I guess it just depends on your point of view. I hope that the changes lead to improvements for all of us but I fear that somebody is going to end up footing the bill for all of those changes and for them the change might simply be that they get to pay higher taxes. It is just not clear to me who that somebody is but I have a sneaking suspicion that I know who....end of that rant, too. :-)