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The news percolates quickly but LECO got back to me already about the Field Engineer position. My application was one of those selected to move ahead with the process, and a letter was sent out with a pretty big list of cautions kind of intended to scare some folks away. To wit; it's not an IT position (no sweat), it requires travel up to 4 nights a week (no sweat), the starting salary was under 50K (no sweat, we can live comfortably on insuranceless 30K), and it required 6-12 months of training and ridealongs in Michigan (super no sweat, it's about 90 miles from my folks in Grand Rapids and about 30 minutes out of Chicago, can we say blues weekends?). I wrote a--somewhat longer--response to these, further detailing my background and commitments, and received a personalized response from the hiring manager about 20 minutes later that read:
"Very well written! I will be in touch with you either later this week or early next week. Again, very well written reply. We will definitely talk soon. Thank you very much!"
Following that, we took a trip to the mall and local goodwill stores, where we ended up hearing 'every little thing is going to be all right' both when entering and leaving the parking garage and where I acquired a silk shirt, Roundtree & Yorke dress slacks, and an active subwoofer for about what I was going to pay for cheap new Ebay slacks. It's not quite the score from a couple weeks back of a $500 suit coat (with the tag still on it) that fits me like it was tailored for me and matching $200 pants for $24.99 for the pair, but I can FIT into these pants because I've not been a 36 for, uh, a few years.
So yeah, Skype interview coming up, possibly in-person interview after that, I am VERY VERY hopeful. It's been a good day!
(Also I relaced my shoes in a different, much more comfortable, pattern and swapped out laces for neon orange R and neon green L. Hell, I'm a child of the 80s, I rock the mullet and will always be a metalhead, why not embrace it?)
Now to hook up the sub, swap dead mouse for new live one, find out why the new car radio no longer works, and in general have something to look forward to. Man it's been a LONG time since I felt good, and that's not even mentioning the tea sampling. I like it. This is what I used to feel like just about all the time. Time to recapture that.
"Very well written! I will be in touch with you either later this week or early next week. Again, very well written reply. We will definitely talk soon. Thank you very much!"
Following that, we took a trip to the mall and local goodwill stores, where we ended up hearing 'every little thing is going to be all right' both when entering and leaving the parking garage and where I acquired a silk shirt, Roundtree & Yorke dress slacks, and an active subwoofer for about what I was going to pay for cheap new Ebay slacks. It's not quite the score from a couple weeks back of a $500 suit coat (with the tag still on it) that fits me like it was tailored for me and matching $200 pants for $24.99 for the pair, but I can FIT into these pants because I've not been a 36 for, uh, a few years.
So yeah, Skype interview coming up, possibly in-person interview after that, I am VERY VERY hopeful. It's been a good day!
(Also I relaced my shoes in a different, much more comfortable, pattern and swapped out laces for neon orange R and neon green L. Hell, I'm a child of the 80s, I rock the mullet and will always be a metalhead, why not embrace it?)
Now to hook up the sub, swap dead mouse for new live one, find out why the new car radio no longer works, and in general have something to look forward to. Man it's been a LONG time since I felt good, and that's not even mentioning the tea sampling. I like it. This is what I used to feel like just about all the time. Time to recapture that.