Time for a Third Career in 2018

2017 is at an end, 2018 is a couple of days old I am still not gainfully employed full time.

All I can do is bitch, bitch, bitch.

Lots of shit has happened in 2017.

In March, I landed a full time job as a contractor on the US Army installation Fort Hood in the Public Works Directorate under the Chenega Facilities Management contract.  It was a shaweet job ... back in the GIS field where I had made my overall contributions within my career.

Chenega had good bennies.  Nice work place vibe.  Not so much vertical opportunity,but as a contractor, that is a given.  Working under this company, on this contract, would have been a nice finish to my working life.  I took a lot of good things away from that job when I quit.

The Chenega opportunity came knocking at the wrong time in my life.  The constant travelling every weekend reminded me that this was NOT the place for me at the time.  It was a hard lesson to learn and it taught me that taking a position so far from home without dragging my family along with me would bankrupt me if I kept working at it.

So, in September, after a long talk with my Wife, I resigned.  No warning, no two week notice.  I just quit.

I never did anything that abrupt in my life.  Ever.

Dad died in December.  I was glad I was already back home for those eventful few weeks.  Living four hours away would have been a real pain in the ass to travel to my hometown in support of my Mother during this stressful time.

We stayed relatively afloat after I quit the contracting job. I managed to stay in with the ISD as a Sub and work at the bike shop my brother-in-law owns.  Then I got a seasonal position that lasted two months in wholesale during the Christmas shopping season.  I thought this would be as good a place to shelter than any, but even that thought would be pushed out in the cold of unemployment.

So, today, I focus on finishing my pedagogy licensing and put in for a Teaching position locally.

Who knows, maybe a local contract will manifest itself and I can muddle through the next seven months making a feeble living before I can become a full-fledged Teacher and get on with a district nearby.

More at a later time.

Ciao,
Darrell