Sacrelicious
Shared on Thu, 08/16/2007 - 09:41The short version: My wife and I are moving to CT, after living in the same apt and doing the same jobs for 3.5yrs since we got married, we don't really know where we are going to live, and are pretty much freaking out.
The longer version: I have hated my current job for quite a while now, but haven't done anything about it. Over the summer I started talking to one of my friends from college about moving up to Hartford, CT (he already lives there and has a steady job) to start our own web-design/advertising company. (BTW, I grew up just outside Boston, so moving back to New England is a pretty big draw for me.) Anyway, we didn't really think it would work, but I asked my wife to take a look at jobs in CT she was qualified for, and she found a couple open positions that paid enough more than her current position to make up for the increased cost of living. Now my wife is a teacher, so as you can imagine, things start to happen around the beginning of Sept., and she only got around to applying last week (she has instructed me to clarify: not because she is lazy, we just didn't get serious until Aug, and we had multiple weddings that put stuff off too.), so we figured if nothing happened by this Monday, it would be too late for her to give two weeks notice at her current school. Monday came and went without hearing anything, so we resigned ourselves to another year in Shits---I mean Pittsburgh. Tuesday morning, she gets a call from the place with the best salary/benefits and they want to interview her Friday (tomorrow) to start training on Monday. So we are driving up at 5am tomorrow morning, then if she gets the job (it seems pretty definite at this point), she will stay with some friends up there for 2 weeks, while I fly back, and work/pack the house for 2 weeks until the end of Aug. I have most likely acquired a part time job, which will leave me set time during the week to work on websites/find clients, which I think will be awesome, cause that is what I really want to do with my life. (If you or someone you know needs a kick-ass website, holler at me!)
So, things seem to be aligning themselves for us (or perhaps I should say God is aligning them for us), but we don't really know where we are going to live yet... we are super poor right now, so we have to find a place that doesn't require 1st/last month's rent up front, we do have all weekend to find a place, and also if Kim (that would be my wife) gets this job, she will be up there for 2 weeks working and looking for a place. (If you live in CT and haven't read my thread in Off-Topic, this is where you come in!
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I think that about sums it up, Kim is being great about moving somewhat blind, and we are both apprehensive but excited about this change, and really think it will really work out for the best! Thanks in advance for your prayers (if you lean that way) and support, and maybe this year I can come to the East-Coast LAN!
The longer version: I have hated my current job for quite a while now, but haven't done anything about it. Over the summer I started talking to one of my friends from college about moving up to Hartford, CT (he already lives there and has a steady job) to start our own web-design/advertising company. (BTW, I grew up just outside Boston, so moving back to New England is a pretty big draw for me.) Anyway, we didn't really think it would work, but I asked my wife to take a look at jobs in CT she was qualified for, and she found a couple open positions that paid enough more than her current position to make up for the increased cost of living. Now my wife is a teacher, so as you can imagine, things start to happen around the beginning of Sept., and she only got around to applying last week (she has instructed me to clarify: not because she is lazy, we just didn't get serious until Aug, and we had multiple weddings that put stuff off too.), so we figured if nothing happened by this Monday, it would be too late for her to give two weeks notice at her current school. Monday came and went without hearing anything, so we resigned ourselves to another year in Shits---I mean Pittsburgh. Tuesday morning, she gets a call from the place with the best salary/benefits and they want to interview her Friday (tomorrow) to start training on Monday. So we are driving up at 5am tomorrow morning, then if she gets the job (it seems pretty definite at this point), she will stay with some friends up there for 2 weeks, while I fly back, and work/pack the house for 2 weeks until the end of Aug. I have most likely acquired a part time job, which will leave me set time during the week to work on websites/find clients, which I think will be awesome, cause that is what I really want to do with my life. (If you or someone you know needs a kick-ass website, holler at me!)
So, things seem to be aligning themselves for us (or perhaps I should say God is aligning them for us), but we don't really know where we are going to live yet... we are super poor right now, so we have to find a place that doesn't require 1st/last month's rent up front, we do have all weekend to find a place, and also if Kim (that would be my wife) gets this job, she will be up there for 2 weeks working and looking for a place. (If you live in CT and haven't read my thread in Off-Topic, this is where you come in!
)I think that about sums it up, Kim is being great about moving somewhat blind, and we are both apprehensive but excited about this change, and really think it will really work out for the best! Thanks in advance for your prayers (if you lean that way
) and support, and maybe this year I can come to the East-Coast LAN!- Sacrelicious's blog
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