Cool GTX
  thanks for update

+1 ^^  Sounds like progress buddy!! 

I hate it when a drive takes a dump. At least you were able to deal with it somewhat easily. 

I have a job offer on my plate. Hours after my first interview in the area. And the pay offer is freaking GOOD. I'm baffled, but we all go through a bit of that 'imposter syndrome' from time to time.
 
I'm sleeping on it and will be giving my answer tomorrow, roughly 18 hours from now.
 
On TOP of the bewilderment, my body decided it was also a great time to crash and be sick pretty much as soon as I got home from the interview, so it's been a wild trip all told. *laughs*
 
But, yeah, guys, it's looking much better from the Pimp-lair than it did a few hours ago!
 
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Been following this thread too. Congrats on the job offer! I'm with coolgtx on the pay/vaca, hope you feel better soon
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Great news, congrats.
Rest and recover..

Congrats.

I also got a good laugh out of that. That is indeed great.

I've just ran my monthly cleanup routine (compressing the hourly stats down for storage) for August and realized that it's my first full month of stats, with some minor down time, that I've harvested in Florida. That feels both strange and great.
 
Updates on the job side - I accepted the offer as it was extended. First four months are contract with rollover to perm hire, so long as all parties agree that it's a good match.  This means that I'm not quite sure what the time off offer will end up being, but you better believe I'm going to be negotiating for a good amount when they make the full time offer. 
 
I've also been adding more recruiters/headhunters to my personal network, just in case. I believe firmly in stacking the deck in my favor.
 
So, I'm going to spend the week doing clean up work (finishing the unpacking as much as I can - Still need to get more shelving for books and toy displays) and prepping for the start of the new job.
 
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Take it from some one that just moved . Still figuring out where stuff is 6 months later . And mite have to move in 6 months to a year once more , Right now can not fold got 300 feet of X cord that I get power from .

Hey Droug, I'm sorry to hear job fell through. Maybe this is a good thing, possibly not the right one for you. I do hope they make it up to you and soon!! Sounds like you have plenty of contacts to help you out, that's smart to do. More chances. Keep your head up my friend! 

I myself am a "all things happen for a reason" believer, had a similar situation and behold, a better offer came. It is  a pia waiting out the uncertainty while bills continue to come in. Hang in there  

(You need to change your locale on your profile!)
 
Glad things are going well, drougnor!!! I'll be in Florida in January!
 

Good Luck man!!    I hope this one works out for you! 

I'll be in Orlando...not close..not far...2 hours?
 

Fingerscrossed for you...

Even more finger crossing, folks! Several weeks ago, I was pitched a position at a company that is looking for desktop support with focus on customer side of things, but there's a BIG sticking point with the hiring manager - The support person who is going to be boots on the ground must ALSO be an expert in SCCM and do all kinds of stuff in SCCM at the same time.  SCCM tends to be a time hog, especially if you are taking over the implementation that was done by someone else. It's also a finicky bugger, based on my research, and if you don't set it up 100% golden the first time (Spoiler alert - Almost NO ONE EVER DOES!), you will spend hours a day popping back in to ensure the alerts you are getting aren't actual alerts, because you don't DARE not verify.
 
The people who generally run an SCCM setup are single focus engineers getting the appropriate expert pay.
 
I found all this information out in the initial 10 minute conversation with the recruiter because I like to google what I'm being asked that I can learn just to make sure that it's a true 'Yeah, I can hit the ground running.' situation.  In this case? I need basic guidance and training and I'm off to the races, because that's the kind of tech I am. Give me a bit of guidance and show me how YOU want things run, and I'll be able to take that and run off into the Internet Wilderness to find the rest of my information on my own!
 
BUT, the hiring manager? He wants NOTHING of this. "No, I can't/won't train. I REFUSE."
 
So, the recruiter and I agree to table this for now, and I jokingly say "If the guy realizes what kind of fool he's being, let me know."
 
Fast forward and my phone rings yesterday.  The hiring manager is being enough of a twit about things that the recruiter has decided that he's going to wear his butt down and tell him flat out how stupid he's being.  The person they're trying to replace was an SCCM specialist who is NOT a customer facing tech. Has no idea how to do the boots on the ground customer work. And because this is a mixed position, that just wasn't a good fit. He thinks that he will be able to sell my extensive boots on the ground tech support/fixer work with the promise that I'll be able to pick up the SCCM side as I go, because I freaking well can, or I wouldn't be as good a support/fixer person as I am.

We had a good chat, got a few laughs over the stubborn dude and figured that I can get them to start me off at a GREAT for me pay range and just work my way upwards as I show my commitment to actually keep learning the toolkit.  Especially because I have the last 5 years of working for a company that loved to give wonderful examples of how NOT to run an enterprise. *laughs*
 
I'm hopefull the recruiter will have good news for me tomorrow.  If not, I also have 3 other irons currently in the fire (I've lost a few other opportunities because they went with internal hires vs the outside because it was most likely they were required to list to the outside by contracts) that could use good vibes, wood knocking, fingers crossing and any prayers if they are your thing.  This Pimp needs to get PAID!
 
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