Oh and there's that other interview I'm having on Friday but I won't be taking that one if I get offered. This one is for the Diabetes and Glandular Research place here (lotsa big people in Texas...). They decided they wanted to crank it up a notch and do some serious work so they bought a mass spec. Of course none of them wanted to learn how to run the damn thing (smart people) so they started looking for a mass spec operator. And let me tell you there are a ton of us out there. Not. At all. I think I was the only one she interviewed that wasn't by phone. I am so not surprised. We're like jet fighters, our instruments are so damn expensive and persnikity that there are only a few of us who voluntarily beat them into submission for a living. They are such cranky instruments. Regardless, I now have a regular 8-5 full time permanent with bennies job that is only earning $1500 less per yr than what I earned in San Diego. I was floored, I didn't know anyone would come close to my old paycheck. Really the pay out here is utter crap so when the HR dude said fifty three five I had to pause and make sure I heard him right. Utter disbelief.
Now all we have to do is find the dh another job that isn't 80 miles away and life will be good.
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YAY!
80 miles? Surely you jest. I drive 40 miles round trip to work, does that ever get old!
No jest Trailboss, no jest. They car pool but to get there at 5:30 am he has to get up at 2:45am and leave the house at 3am. He then returns home at 8pm. Yes, it does get very old. Our dd doesn't like him having this job. She is very displeased so he is looking for a new job.
What is a dd?
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