Job Hunting Part 2

After the cross country trip and several weeks of job hunting my funds were running low and I was feeling pretty desperate about earning a pay check. So I started to focus my job hunting on my marketable skills even though I didn't really want to be working in any of those fields. I submitted my resume to any opening that looked even vaguely similar to any of the following: sales, electro-mechanical assembly, quality inspection, internal auditor, CMM operator / programer, technical writing / illustration, and photography. I lost track of the number of resumes that I sent out and in my desperation I took the first position that was offered at a decent wage that had medical benefits.

That rash decision landed me a job at Sun Country Industries as a Quality Inspector and CMM operator / programmer. The shop was a filthy whole in the wall that produced aircraft parts for primarily GE and Eclipse. Some of the parts were technically interesting and others were on a completely different scale of size than what I had worked with at Hypertherm.

About a week after I accepted the job I received three more offers from other companies that looked much more promising but I felt that I had made a commitment and should see where it goes. My gut reaction is telling me that I just made a big mistake. I guess only time will tell.

Ventilating the Convertible

I can't believe what someone did to my poor car. It looks like some one threw a chunk of concrete out of a moving car and they were aiming for my rear window. Instead they missed the glass and the chunk of concrete ripped through the canvas top, hit the roll bar, and shattered through out the interior of the car. It made a total mess and a surprisingly larger bill. There was over $3,500 dollars worth of damage and a long lead time to get the replacement parts from Japan. This is sad because I hadn't even gotten the chance to have the rocker panel repaired (dent caused by avoiding the ice machine) before I have to file another insurance claim.