So, the pressure is finally off
 

After 10 months of working telecommuting jobs, most of which were for cheap assholes who refused to pay, I finally have an onsite job, as well as a from home job that pays.

For the first time in almost 2years, we finally have a feeling of security :)

Well... that deserves a big... WOOHOO!!:)
Congrats and good luck!

Well done, old chap.

I am sure Bree appreciates it a lot...until you turn into Vodwok at nights, that is. ;)

Oh and BTW, I wasn't blowing you off last month when you were asking about NC...I just live in a very FUCKED-UP town and I know everybody and I just didn't even want to get into WHERE I am, you know? Understand?:o

This is a fabulous state though. (except my HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE town)
If anyone so happens to get the good luck to live in central NC:
You have easy access to the beaches and then drive the other way for the breathtaking mountain regions.
There's also alot of people at HDC that live here, which, the cool factor of that alone .....;)

I'm not quite sure what you are referring to, but oddly enough, Bree said one of the things that drew her to me was that I remind her of Adam Sandler... Weird...



Not a problem, If people here dont get back to me on something, I assume they have a life :D

And we are moving to NC in 2 months regardless of our situation, even if we have to take out a loan.

The downside is that this job may go full time very quickly (there was talk yesterday of them skipping the contractor phase with me and going straight to permenant, the CIO was taken with my resume),

SO, it is possible in 2 months, I will be helping bree lily and my mother in law move to NC, then living in the cheapest place i can find up here so i can keep my swanky high paying job with benefits. That is going to be fucking hard.

congrats ... it would be so sweet to work from home ..

there is an upside and a downside, and you definitely have to be organized and able to tell yourself, its not time to play, its time to work.


I have had days of taking care of a sick kid, followed by 9 hours of work starting at 7 pm, so its not all wine and roses. I'm kind of looking forward to talking to other people during the day :)

Southpark and working in my pjs is great, so is $50 an hour, but the high rate means shit when the clients decide they dont want to pay because they are over 1000 miles a way and know you would lose any profit from suing them in the cost to take them to court....

I don't get that one either.

He uses the word "Security" a lot in Wedding Singer.

Are you buying or renting?

My husband is a loan officer with a mortgage co. and his parent company is in Raleigh, NC.
So he knows what's out there, what's affordable, what would be the wrong place to rent/buy etc etc...
I also know a few things if you have some questions ,because as much as I tune him out, oodles of information concerning the house market is just sitting here in my brain...


....anyway...just PM me, I'll give you my email addy and we would be glad to help.....:)

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But seriously. You've mentioned your frustration with your job before, so it's about damn time and Sense of Security is absolutely priceless. Congratulations, Vod. You deserve it. :D

Pressure definitely sucks....Good for you, Vod. :cool:

Thank you everyone. The funny thing is, this means about a $6+ an hour paycut, and i now have to drive 30 minutes to work instead of walk across the room.


And i couldnt be happier :)

the best part is how i NAILED it. I was approached by a recruiter i had spoken to during a dry period back in december. i got a phone interview, but that was as far as it went. this time, he called (last week i think), and he sent my resume in to them.

After seeing my resume, the CIO of the company wanted to screen me. I had/have a big project out on a bid, and i am already working a part time gig from home, so i didnt NEED this job, so when they wanted to talk to me at 4pm on a day I was watching Lily because Bree had work, I said, cant do it.

So, they asked if I could do it the next day; teh CIO said after readin my resume, they needed to give me an opportunity to talk to them. :)

So i do the phone screen, and he wants to meet me for a face to face, THE NEXT DAY.

Anyone who has been through the interview process even once in the corporate world knows what a big deal that is. So i do my interview today, and as far as I was concerned, i nailed it, good.

But I keep calm, i have backup, so if i didnt get it, i blew 90 minutes of my life. We drove down to tewksbury mass to have lunch at IHOP, and it was an awesome lunch. Country fried steak breakfast with sausage on the side and some wheat toast.

The waitress was awesome and completely taken with lily. she got a 25% tip.(would have been higher, but money has been tight)

We get home, bree is getting ready for work, when my phone rings. Its the recruiter's backup, telling me they want to "extend to me the offer of the position", IE, they interviewed you and a bunch of others, and they want you. Same day callback, big fucking deal number 2.

SO, on the 25th, i start my new job as a programmer for these people, and if the rest of the team is like the two who interviewed me, its going to be a good time :)

Well done Vod! Glad things are going well.