ONE MORE MOVE FOR SURE

As mentioned in my previous blog (ANOTHER MOVE?), rumors continued to circulate in the rumor mill re changes on the horizon. Armed with this information, dear wife and I talked again. This time I was more positive that my job situation could change, thus making the Washington offer more attractive.

The new job would be a major change for me in that I would no longer be in a line position but have a staff job, which would be somewhat of a relief. No more quotas to make, no need for the right people to hire, no worries about the people I occasionally had to fire (always a gut-wrenching decision for me), and so on.

Armed with all of these points, "we" decided that NOW was the time to move, so I called my manager with my decision. He called Washington and the deed was done. I then made a two-hour trip to Washington, met with my new bosses (2), and went over what they expected of me. I discovered that this was a brand new job, which meant to me that there was the opportunity to make a real "go" of it. I signed off and floated home on Cloud Nine as it were. Whoopie!

There was a small snag in moving quickly into the job. Dear wife and I had bought tickets for our first-ever trip to Europe. No problem, said my new bosses, go and enjoy, and we will see you when you return.

Soooooo, off to Europe we went, enjoyed it fully, and then came home to a new job, another house move and new friends.

More, later.