Moving and Job Search
You can all thank Shelly for this. Her email got me thinking that I outta just go ahead and post about this.
As you already know if you've been reading this occasionally, Sharon's accepted a job at Grove City College and we're moving to Grove City, PA in a couple of months. Everybody at Jump Trading where I work that supervises me already knows, so I guess it's safe to blog about. That said, we haven't been able to come up with a solution that allows me to work remotely. I still have hope that we will, but because of tension at the company about my project (and other events that have upped tension at the firm overall) the decision about whether to let me work remote or not has been put on hold.
Obviously this puts Sharon and I in a tough situation. In a couple of weeks we're going to go look for housing, and to get a pre-approval I need to know what we'll be making, and without a commitment from my current high paying company I'll need to estimate what I could make at a job closer to there. There are a few openings that look okay there, and though I don't expect to make what I'm making now, I would be happy with them. The problem is I'm getting very little interest from those employers so far, so I don't really have any idea what to expect.
I really believe this move is God's will, so we are waiting on Him for this, but I felt blogging about it would let you all know what's going on in case you want to pray about it, or if one of you happen to be best friends with somebody out in western PA who needs a senior C++ developer. My resume's on Monster.
Other than that, aside from multiple illnesses (cold and flu season hit the McCathern household pretty hard this year, though Sharon managed to dodge the worst of it) we're all doing pretty well.
As you already know if you've been reading this occasionally, Sharon's accepted a job at Grove City College and we're moving to Grove City, PA in a couple of months. Everybody at Jump Trading where I work that supervises me already knows, so I guess it's safe to blog about. That said, we haven't been able to come up with a solution that allows me to work remotely. I still have hope that we will, but because of tension at the company about my project (and other events that have upped tension at the firm overall) the decision about whether to let me work remote or not has been put on hold.
Obviously this puts Sharon and I in a tough situation. In a couple of weeks we're going to go look for housing, and to get a pre-approval I need to know what we'll be making, and without a commitment from my current high paying company I'll need to estimate what I could make at a job closer to there. There are a few openings that look okay there, and though I don't expect to make what I'm making now, I would be happy with them. The problem is I'm getting very little interest from those employers so far, so I don't really have any idea what to expect.
I really believe this move is God's will, so we are waiting on Him for this, but I felt blogging about it would let you all know what's going on in case you want to pray about it, or if one of you happen to be best friends with somebody out in western PA who needs a senior C++ developer. My resume's on Monster.
Other than that, aside from multiple illnesses (cold and flu season hit the McCathern household pretty hard this year, though Sharon managed to dodge the worst of it) we're all doing pretty well.
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