In Which the Dread Overlord Phoenixes, Like A Boss.
Got the call a few minutes ago; an offer letter will be forthcoming.
Pending, of course, passing drug test, background check, and physical. Drugs, no sweat, I'm down to a cuppa a week. Background, well, the only things on record are two speeding tickets in something like 10 years of record, and one even says that it was 55 in a 45 or something suitably innocuous. The physical, well, I'm going to start a daily fitness regimen. I am in worse shape than I was last year when I took the physical for Schlumberger but I can probably come back up to speed in a week or so.
As I said over on Z's facespaceplace, I don't count my horses before they hatch, but this one's DAMN solid. Only concern the guy's boss had was my job-hopping; I told him I'd only ever quit one temp job because a career-track one was recruiting me. (Technically, I guess I bailed on a contracting company but there wasn't work for me and I still stuck it out for...something like four, five months without a project or a prospect out of loyalty. That's a long time for a voluntary furlough.)
Field service here I come, right back where I started from, but it's no longer in the IT industry. When I initially hoped and dreamed of joining, it wasn't an industry, it was an elite technological priesthood, revered and mystical. You tell me that repairing and installing five or six figure machines, companies paying lawyer rates for the callout, ain't back to the glamor that no longer hangs around commoditized PCs and outsourced remote support.
Oh yeah and it's more than I was making before.
Pending, of course, passing drug test, background check, and physical. Drugs, no sweat, I'm down to a cuppa a week. Background, well, the only things on record are two speeding tickets in something like 10 years of record, and one even says that it was 55 in a 45 or something suitably innocuous. The physical, well, I'm going to start a daily fitness regimen. I am in worse shape than I was last year when I took the physical for Schlumberger but I can probably come back up to speed in a week or so.
As I said over on Z's facespaceplace, I don't count my horses before they hatch, but this one's DAMN solid. Only concern the guy's boss had was my job-hopping; I told him I'd only ever quit one temp job because a career-track one was recruiting me. (Technically, I guess I bailed on a contracting company but there wasn't work for me and I still stuck it out for...something like four, five months without a project or a prospect out of loyalty. That's a long time for a voluntary furlough.)
Field service here I come, right back where I started from, but it's no longer in the IT industry. When I initially hoped and dreamed of joining, it wasn't an industry, it was an elite technological priesthood, revered and mystical. You tell me that repairing and installing five or six figure machines, companies paying lawyer rates for the callout, ain't back to the glamor that no longer hangs around commoditized PCs and outsourced remote support.
Oh yeah and it's more than I was making before.