MNXMFan's Blog

So, it has been a while since my last post, and I thought I’d pop in and give an update.

The job is going very well.  Its been close to three weeks now, and I am finally getting used to the different schedule, although I am not up as late as I used to be even on the weekends.  I finally have the drive down to the right route.

Other than that, I am keeping a very low profile.  I am trying to save money for the move which will likely happen in July now.  I really wanted to move out in May, then the length of the hunt pushed it back to June, and now its really starting to look like July is going to make more sense.  By then, the temp in my temp to hire title will be gone, I will have insurance benefits and all the other benefits that come with having a permanent position.  And most importantly, I won’t have to pay for COBRA, which is about half of what my rent will be.

In other news, my computer’s power supply died this week.  I replaced it and had to rebuild the operating system from scratch, thankfully I did not lose any data!

So, for those of you keeping track, last Thursday I started what I deemed to be the job that I wanted since the first interview.

Its going absolutely great so far.  I spend about half the day at my desk, and the other half doing face to face help desk support type stuff for the company I work for.  So far, everyone is very nice, and they have all welcomed me with open arms. 

Some of my schooling is coming in handy, while some stuff I was taught isn’t really practiced anymore.  Overall though, I’m still learning the ropes, and most of all the floorplan!  And getting used to this 8-5 thing is kinda crazy so far too, I mean I haven’t done it for so long now.  The worst thing about my job is the commute, but thats only on days like today when the weather isn’t the greatest.  Tomorrow is going to be just as bad weather wise, so I better sign off and get to bed so I can prepare for what might very well be an hour commute tomorrow.  On dry days, its about a 25 minute commute which is totally doable. 

I will likely be moving out sometime from May to July, depending on how this all shakes out, but that will only trim about 5 minutes off my commute (and likely that 5 minutes will be replaced waiting for an elevator and navigating the garage LOL).

Still, anything less than a half an hour, by my book, is OK with me.  Especially since I will have neighbors who are friends of mine, and a location that is close to things yet far away at the same time.

Why do I still care?  Why do you enter my thoughts and my dreams?  Why do I keep dreaming that we have reconciled our differences?

But most of all, why do I feel as if I should try for that?  Is it all the good times we have had?  Just because someone has a bad period of time, even and especially if they cannot be 100% in control of the issues surrounding it, why must things come to a complete end and cutoff?  Didn’t we both think at one time we were better friends than that?  What happened to that, and is it worth the time to question?

To the person this post is directed at, wherever you might be, I hope you are acheiving all you thought you couldn’t with me in your life.  I honestly wish you the best, because, despite the bad waters under the bridge, I still care about you and hope you have a good life.

I still miss you.  Maybe one day I will have the courage and ability to stop missing you, or the understanding to know how to fix it.  Until then, I can do nothing more than try to forget you, and continue to move on as I have these past months.  As I have said before, life is good, it would just be a little better if you were there to share it with me.

So, after two and a half years of schoool and two months of looking, I go back to work full time tomorrow.

I couldn’t be more excited.  Like I have said before, perfect company, perfect location, perfect pay.  The opprotunity for advancement and mental growth is also very big, which is very important to me as well.

After nearly two months of looking daily, and three months of unemployment, today I recieved, and accepted, a job offer.  The job is for a TERRIFIC company, pay is perfect, location is perfect, and the opprotunity for growth is literally unlimited.

Tomorrow, I have to go fill out paperwork, and then once the paperwork comes back, I should start the next day.  Paperwork should take approximately two days, so I should start work as soon as next Wednesday.  I am absolutely thrilled about this opprotunity, as it will allow me to move to the apartment building I want to move to, and since the pay is a little higher than I was expecting, I should be able to still accomplish that goal by May or June.

So, I had a second interview with a company in Eden Praire that I really liked (location, people, pay everything).  The interview was with the IT director, and it seemed to go very well, so I am thinking that a job offer is right around the corner from them.

But, here’s the problem, I had a second interview with a company in Brooklyn Center that has stated they will give me an answer either way in the next 24 hours.  The pay on this one starts out a little lower, but within a year it ends out much higher.  Money is not the deciding factor for me, but getting a job sometime in the next few weeks most certainly IS.  I can tell I would be much happier at the job that pays less, but if this other job makes me an offer first, I most certainily don’t want to turn it down and risk another two months searching.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m nowhere near desperate, but after 15 or so interviews, it starts to get a little exhausting, not to mention the sooner I get a job the sooner I can move out on my own, and the sooner I can start moving forward again.

So, I called the other company to let them know of this other impending offer, politely told them that I am not trying to put any un-needed pressure on them, but that I would much rather work for them, and asked them to give me a call back to discuss how likely I am to actually get the job.

Not only does sitting around all day get boring, but driving all over the metro for interview after interview gets tiresome, and I want to start moving my career forward, know what I mean?

So tonight was basically world war two.  I’m extremely frustrated with a friend of mine who, as of right now has decided to “sever” contact with me.

We have been friends for 7 years now, and honestly I think the reason he is upset with me is bogus.  But yet, he has no idea why I was upset with him in the first place.  Anyways, I don’t really have the energy to explain it all or hash through it right now, so I’ll probably update you all more on this later today when I wake up.

Regardless its not cool, and I’m not happy about it.