Important decisions in life...
So, job opportunity landed in my lap today. If you happen to be reading this, Colleen, I could probably use your input. You likely know this area better than I do.
Cons:
1 - Leave my home, and everything I'm doing now for awhile.
2 - Give up dreams of house, etc, etc, for a while.
3 - The place is incredibly remote.
4 - I'd be leaving doing something now that I love.
Pros:
1 - Very, very good coin. Much more money than I could make in Nova Scotia.
2 - House and such out there given to me, so expenses are minimal.
3 - Place is very remote. Lots of natural sights, etc.
4 - Chance to do something different for awhile, make a ton of money then come back home.
Basically, I have a very high chance of getting a job if I want it (Read, mine if I want it), of working for an ISP of sorts in -very- Northern Alberta, right up against the border of the rockies. By very northern, I mean farther north than Fort Vermillion. Almost to the Northwest Territories.
The place is a Cree Village, way up in the middle of nowhere. Accessable via barge in the summer, down the peace river and by ice-road in the winter once it freezes over. Internet is brought in there via microwave radio, and I'd be in charge of maintaining that as well as pretty much being the tech guy in the village.
I'd be responsible for the local school, health center, RCMP, etc, etc. Everything in the town that is connected, or electronic would go through me.
It's an incredibly attractive prospect. The money is also, well, pretty out there. But it's interesting work. Important too, really. Since I keep the village communicating and running.
Isolation does not bother me. Nor does living on a reservation. It's a chance to learn about other people. But, to drop everything and move halfway across the country -- well, all of it really -- and give up what I've been working for here?
I have to make a decision -fast- on it though.
Augh. Don't know. Don't know. Don't know.
Cons:
1 - Leave my home, and everything I'm doing now for awhile.
2 - Give up dreams of house, etc, etc, for a while.
3 - The place is incredibly remote.
4 - I'd be leaving doing something now that I love.
Pros:
1 - Very, very good coin. Much more money than I could make in Nova Scotia.
2 - House and such out there given to me, so expenses are minimal.
3 - Place is very remote. Lots of natural sights, etc.
4 - Chance to do something different for awhile, make a ton of money then come back home.
Basically, I have a very high chance of getting a job if I want it (Read, mine if I want it), of working for an ISP of sorts in -very- Northern Alberta, right up against the border of the rockies. By very northern, I mean farther north than Fort Vermillion. Almost to the Northwest Territories.
The place is a Cree Village, way up in the middle of nowhere. Accessable via barge in the summer, down the peace river and by ice-road in the winter once it freezes over. Internet is brought in there via microwave radio, and I'd be in charge of maintaining that as well as pretty much being the tech guy in the village.
I'd be responsible for the local school, health center, RCMP, etc, etc. Everything in the town that is connected, or electronic would go through me.
It's an incredibly attractive prospect. The money is also, well, pretty out there. But it's interesting work. Important too, really. Since I keep the village communicating and running.
Isolation does not bother me. Nor does living on a reservation. It's a chance to learn about other people. But, to drop everything and move halfway across the country -- well, all of it really -- and give up what I've been working for here?
I have to make a decision -fast- on it though.
Augh. Don't know. Don't know. Don't know.