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Hey everyone, it's American ██████████ Day!

 

Got in the office today....HR wants to talk (same issue every month - don't know why they don't realize I don't know the information they don't tell me), and Houston is calling asking for some stuff....I REALLY hope this day gets better because it couldn't start any worse.

 

Got blind-sided last night...maybe that's a bit of hyperbole, or exaggeration, maybe exaggerated hyperbole, or just hyperbolic exaggerate....anyway:
Had to take my daughter to her school's admin building last night, the kids in her class were singing there Veteran's Day songs for the school board (why they couldn't/didn't just go when the kids did it Friday at school is beyond me...), then had to quickly get my son back to his school for a presentation his class was doing for their history/social studies work (why they scheduled events on the same night for students of the same campus is beyond me...besides the fact that there would be parents with kids in both....grrrr) (my wife was still doing after school stuff and bus duty, so she couldn't help at the time).
Okay, anyway part the II: was at the admin building waiting for the thing to get started, chatting around a little bit, had a tap on the shoulder, turned and saw my old supervisor asking if he could talk with me for a second. Yeup, I already know where this is going. He came just shy of begging me to consider applying for the position that just came open (not begging in the 'we need you' sense, but that they really want me back there).

Not the first time this has happened. My interest has always been to someday be working back at my old school, but when the timing is right. Been extremely pleased and happy and content and comfortable where I'm at, and each time he's asked I've kinda shrug it off. But when he asked last night, it was different. Dunno why, can't explain it. Pay would be comparable, though fuel costs would go waaay down.
Dunno what's going on in my head, am I really considering this?

Need some time to think.....any thoughts?

 

I've got some thoughts on the subject...

 

yeah, exactly...exactly why I've shrugged it off every time, and exactly why I can't explain my thoughts right now.

maybe it's because my givadam is still FUBAR?

I'll be thinking long and hard on this one, before when I would think about the possibility (after shrugging it off), I couldn't come up with more than a couple of pros, and many cons of going back.

It seems the pros list has grown in my mind somewhat. And before the thoughts of familial influence come into mind, no one has any idea besides my mom, and that's only because he mentioned to her that he was going to call me yesterday.

Like I said...weird

 

I, unsurprisingly, have not been approached.

I'm okay with this.

But dude, you gotta do what's right for you.

I know that commute is a killer in more ways than one. Things you have to consider are room for advancement, whether you're even interested in advancement (take my advice, think long/hard on this one), managerial style. I've not worked for either your current boss or your former one, so I can't speak to how they like to run things or if their philosophy of "how things should be done" jeehaws with your current view or not, but I have my suspicions. Something else to consider is job stability. How likely is one employer to yank your job out from under you verses the other?

My advice? Talk to our former cohort in crime, "T", about it. She might have some insight on the current situation at Hell, ISD. I know there's been a lot of turnover in some departments there, and the leadership seems to have some issues, but things might be stabilizing for all I know. Too, the department you'd be working for is a different animal, entirely.

I do know this: Before I went back, I'd need a strong incentive--pay raise, better benefits, more vacation, or some other perk.

 

Yeup, all those things are bouncing around in my head.
I used to think advancement was a big deal, but right about now, I can deal with just being a monkey.
And the way financials are right now here...there's just not much telling. But it could be the same there, gonna have to hash that one out.
Commute isn't too bad, it's a nice transition time from home to work, then work to home...but fuel prices aren't going lower, and taxes and other things have cut into that even more.
"T" is quite happy, believe it or not. They all seem to be pretty content there when I stopped by a couple weeks ago...of course, a snapshot of a scene a movie does not make...or something like that.
The whole district does seem to have stabilized quite a bit from the "hurricanes *ale".

Like I said, dunno. I can think of compelling reasons on both sides.
But, here's one of the big ones this time around...I'll have a child in Jr High next year (Oh. My. Gosh. I'm getting ooooolllldddd...), extra-curriculars are already piling up, and will definitely be ramped up in the coming years, it would be nice to be 'local' to events and stuff.

Yeah, it's all mind-numbing right now. I'd be trading in slow, comfortable pace for higher-paced. Not that that's a bad thing, but it's a thing.
Just too many things in my head right now, I need some time to digest it all.

But I just can't shake why I'm actually considering it right now, of all times. Nothing has changed in my opinions really, but....just don't know.
Then again, when I came here I was kinda at this same point...comfortable and a bit content, had negative feelings on the management side still, but that changed almost right after I left, and has been improving.

I just can't help but wonder if Someone is indicating this is my next move (notice the capital "S"), and making me be at peace with it, despite my concerns. If that's the case, I just gotta faith this through, I reckon, and give it proper thought, and not just shrug it off based on my personal opinions at this point.

That's the part that's blind-siding me...not that he approached me (I'd already had rumor that he would awhile back), but that I was actually open to the thought. Could be a power higher than my brain flipping switches in my head....
...or it could just be stress, lack of sleep, lack of givadam, etc....

 

The day is going SO much better now! Issues solved!

 

Groovy!

 

I feel for ya, guy. These sorts of decisions are never easy. I'll be praying for you.

 

It's like thinkgeek and sharper image had a love child.

 

We watched one of the Doctor Who specials, Planet of the Dead, last night. I don't know if it was because I was watching it on DVD and not streaming it, or what, but it looked... different. Everything was so crisp and clean. It had that "I'm watching a recording of a stage play" quality to it. Did they use a different kind of camera or do less processing to the image than usual? It almost felt like watching a live performance. It was kind of off-putting. Are the remainder of the Tenant episodes like that?

 

now that's a blog fulla awesome. My wife and I especially like the parody kid's book. The one with the Not-Safe-for-TSD title.

 

BGDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Set my tablet down on a (I thought) stable stack of boxes. One crash later and now I have a $200 brick.

Call to customer service yields, "It would cost more to fix it... you could try a warranty appeal, but I wouldn't hold out much hope."

Ugh.

 

Ho.Ly.Carp. That sucks a bunch.

One option is on Woot today (if it's not sold out). Too bad that's not a deal after payday, I could see a couple of those under the tree for the kids next month

 

I think IF I replace it, I'll go with another just like it. Played around for a minute with a Kindle Fire ($20 more), and I was stellarly unimpressed. The capacitive screen is, believe it or not, kind of off-putting. Played with a cruz in the store before I bought the nova... bought the nova.

Not to mention, my dad's first hot-rod was a Nova, so it's sort of a kindred spirit kind of thing.

 

Sorry to hear that!

Was messing around with my Atrix last night and couldn't do what I wanted to do . Maybe I'll have more luck tonight?

 

Hopefully!

 

This. This is absolutely true. I can't count how many times I've had this issue....twice this week alone.

 

Daily.