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friday night
Feb. 10th, 2006 11:18 pmM: Wouldn't it be funny if I ended up getting a web design job at [Insert Name of State Agency With Which He Has an Interview Here]?
K: Well, yeah, but then I'd have to kill you.
So, M has an interview scheduled for Wednesday, although not for a web design job (it's just one that is reportedly opening up soon at this agency) but rather, a job for which he is vastly overqualified and would cause a significant pay cut. Yay! However, he's paying $125 a month just in gas, plus it being a state job would have benefits that are costing him money now (like insurance). Also, it would be in Frankfort, which would have him driving across town rather than forty minutes one way, and I don't know if you all actually realize just how much I worry about him driving that far every day, but it drives me crazy. There are other benefits to working for the state (one of which is the retirement benefit, ahem, but that's kind of one that is an anti-benefit until you, you know, retire.) but the possibility of a normal working schedule, with normal holidays off work.. that would be so brilliant. And more than that, they hire internally first and he needs to get in somewhere even if it's at a low level, and they're going to be opening up more positions shortly--which the nice lady said to him on the phone during a discussion of his over-qualification. We'll see how it goes, but it is at least SOME news.
Anyway, the boy and I nixed our original plan of going over to clean our old apartment tonight in favor of date night. We went out to the new Mexican restaurant (good, I think. Better than the one that the folks at work like, in my opinion) and then home to.. well. Home to do some work, and also to watch the local real estate channel for an hour. How's that for stupid? We buy a house, and the first night we watch more than ten minutes of television together, it's a bunch of houses flipping by. It's a strangely addictive channel, even though it sounds frankly awful. I suppose it caters to those of us with short attention spans. We were really just waiting to see if our house was still there, knowing that it probably wasn't. (We were right.)
Now, if only we could get some more unseasonable warm temperatures instead of those pesky snow forecasts. Hard to get stuff done around here for the crappy weather!
K: Well, yeah, but then I'd have to kill you.
So, M has an interview scheduled for Wednesday, although not for a web design job (it's just one that is reportedly opening up soon at this agency) but rather, a job for which he is vastly overqualified and would cause a significant pay cut. Yay! However, he's paying $125 a month just in gas, plus it being a state job would have benefits that are costing him money now (like insurance). Also, it would be in Frankfort, which would have him driving across town rather than forty minutes one way, and I don't know if you all actually realize just how much I worry about him driving that far every day, but it drives me crazy. There are other benefits to working for the state (one of which is the retirement benefit, ahem, but that's kind of one that is an anti-benefit until you, you know, retire.) but the possibility of a normal working schedule, with normal holidays off work.. that would be so brilliant. And more than that, they hire internally first and he needs to get in somewhere even if it's at a low level, and they're going to be opening up more positions shortly--which the nice lady said to him on the phone during a discussion of his over-qualification. We'll see how it goes, but it is at least SOME news.
Anyway, the boy and I nixed our original plan of going over to clean our old apartment tonight in favor of date night. We went out to the new Mexican restaurant (good, I think. Better than the one that the folks at work like, in my opinion) and then home to.. well. Home to do some work, and also to watch the local real estate channel for an hour. How's that for stupid? We buy a house, and the first night we watch more than ten minutes of television together, it's a bunch of houses flipping by. It's a strangely addictive channel, even though it sounds frankly awful. I suppose it caters to those of us with short attention spans. We were really just waiting to see if our house was still there, knowing that it probably wasn't. (We were right.)
Now, if only we could get some more unseasonable warm temperatures instead of those pesky snow forecasts. Hard to get stuff done around here for the crappy weather!
