More job hopping

Hello All!

It seems like there is never a dull moment around here. The last time I was able to post anything, I told you that Susan had taken a new job at ASCG as a project accountant. I said at the time that it was "a bit of a stretch" for her. She had encouraged me to stop by the new jobsite and meet everyone, but I demurred, mumbling some remark about 'not wanting to get emotionally attached.' I think that I was applying a little foresight there. After one month on the job she decided that it was just not for her, and has already found another!

She has an amazing ability that way. Finding work for me is this painful process of searching for just the right sounding opening, imagining the politics of it and what it would be like to work there, how it would change things for the family, then agonizing over the resume, the interview, etc. Not Susan. She flips through the paper and circles three or four likely-sounding candidates, makes a few phone calls, and has interviews lined up and knocked out within a week or two. She is always so poised and charming that invariably they seem to like her, and she ends up with the enviable dilemma of having more than one job to choose from.

So after two weeks as an accountant she realized that it was slow death on a hot spit, and went looking for something else. She didn't have far to go. She was picked up to be a project assistant by an international environmental engineering firm by the name of The Shaw Group. They have locations all over the world and recently opened a new office here.

I have to admit that I think this is a better fit for her. She will be doing the usual admin assistant stuff, but will also get to do some writing and editing. I feel a lot better about it than the accounting grunt work she was faced with at ASCG.

I am still 7 papers away from finishing this semester's school, so as usual I am pressed for time. It is also the holiday party season. Since I have both skills with sound reinforcement (as it is called) as well as the church's audio equipment in my garage, I am now being called on to run out and set up for an event today.

I hope I can post some pictures next time. Love to you all.

Jed