Current Events

[eurydicebound]

Through an odd whim of fate and my checking account not forbidding it, I'm going to A-Kon this year. It's next weekend, and I'll be working a bit during the con and possibly sitting on a couple of panels. Not sure yet how that'll work out, but we'll see. If anyone's in the area and wants to come, let me know and we could hang out or something. :)

Second, we've had an unexpected local job possibility come up. It seems that the local military base, Fort Sill, wants to hire a couple of programmers in Fire Control and called the university for names. The head of the department gave them David and one other guy. They were originally looking to make them paid internships, but since David isn't a student, they'll see about just hiring him. Dr. T isn't going to be recommending anyone else; as he told David on the phone, "you're the best student in the department." So basically there's no competition for the position, it's entry-level, it's a government job, it's local, he already has a friend who works there that he gets along well with, and it pays 50K a year. Friday we got his transcript and stuff ready, and Tuesday he takes it in and maybe talks to someone.

The downside is that he's already been warned that the government can take a while to move on these things, so even after we turn stuff in, even if it's a done deal, it could still take a month or two before anything's firmly decided one way or the other. I can't drop everything and count on it, regardless of how much I'd like to. It's not that I'd mind moving somewhere further afield, I'd just like to do it in a year or two, when I've got some savings to do it with, most of my small debts are paid off, and when a company will pay for relocation.

Ah well. We'll just have to see.

Comments

[trollbabe.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Good luck on the job!! (Well, I suppose that's to David, but you know what I mean.) That would be really great if he could get in some job experience there, so that when you do decide to move, you've got a better chance of having someone else pay for the moving. That's be sweet! :)

[tfbretz.livejournal.com]

Well, poop. Wish we could make A-Kon now, just so we could visit for a bit.

Best of luck to David on the job front. Being stuck in OK would be sucky, but a lot less sucky with a real and steady income.

[anaka.livejournal.com]

I wish you could too. It'd be nice to see you and Jane, especially since Origins isn't going to happen.

And actually, we'd be moving to the other side of the border in Texas. It's a commute for him, but a much better school for the kiddos. And with him working in a military job, with some form of security clearance for a couple of years, he'll come out able to make half-again his salary somewhere else, if not more. At that point we could go anywhere we chose, basically. And we'd have time to finish giong through counseling and such, and I could maybe finish my degree... there would just be a lot of positives to staying around here for just a little while longer, only this time in a place of our own and a steady, sizable income.

[thatcash.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the new job opportunity. So, are you guys going to be making GenCon?

[anaka.livejournal.com]

Regrettably, no. Even if finances weren't an issue, David's got a month-long training thing with the Army reserve that will keep him away all through August. The kids will start school at the end of the month, and I've got no one I can have them stay with during that time. And while I could theoretically bring them, assuming I could afford the airfare... well, it's just beyond the realms of possibility, really.

And it sucks, too, because I've got 2 or 3 books coming out then.

[anidada.livejournal.com]

*crosses fingers*

[mercuryeric.livejournal.com]

Keeping my fingers crossed. :)

-E