HR @ RC: Everyone okayed it. The salary is the same as original, but I can offer you a signing bonus of [4.5% of salary].Done deal! Got to love corporate America. Finally, the rollercoaster is taking a break. Tentative start date at Rocket Central is mid-October. Need to get confirmation, and the signed, sealed offer on paper delivered (FedEx, hopefully arriving tomorrow). Then I can call our landlord and give our notice. Meantime, the purging and cleaning continues. Next it's finding a place to live in Rocket City, and possibly an office or studio space for me to rent outside the house, for working in earnest.
Rocket Scientist: Uh... sure, okay, we'll take it.
This life is a genuine adventure. Don't blink or you might miss something great.
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Finally, the rollercoaster is taking a break.
Ha! (you've moved before, right?)
Seriously, though, it's good to know where you're headed, anyway. Congrats to R.S. on her negotiating skills, as well as well-propelled career trajectory!
Whew! Tentative congrats, although nothing is final until the ink is dry on the signatures, right? Best of luck. I've been there, having been number one in a search and ending up having them take... no one.
I still want to throw up just remembering those days.
That's great--congratulatons.
Goodness! Congrats on having some certainty after all the ups and downs and "where will we be in two months" business, which is exhausting, I know. Good luck with all the moving stuff.
hey! you've got a job! congrats! it's good to hear that at some point, one can get a position!
Thanks for all your comments and well-wishing. Nice thing about the move is that it's covered by the hire package, and since it's only a few hours down the road, it shouldn't be too big a deal. The plan is to purge as much as possible in the meantime, so we'll only be taking what we really want to keep. The problem will be finding a place. I think we're still (mostly) committed to renting for the short-term, as buying in today's market is risky enough, but buying without a solid idea that we'll stay put for more than a year or so is rather too risky.
Wanna Be, I only wish I had a job. But I'm pleased with my wife's success. And, the good thing is that I don't have a job which prevents me from pursuing the work I'm dedicated to. That, I suppose, would be far worse. Meantime, the Rocket Scientist and I remain a team, of which, at the moment, she is the captain.
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