Vicissitudes

It’s been about two months since I was sacked. Several resumes, calls, interviews and so on later I have accepted a one month contract offer. I can’t say much about the companies involved because of some confidentiality issue they have going on. But the job involved setting up a new LAN/WAN to several hundred sites with one headquarters. I won’t be doing all of the hand-on work but what I can do I will. I already need to hire one or two people to do most of the work. This is a step up for me. I am required to wear a suit everyday and meet with top executives of two very large companies. This is NOT a sales position, I am there as the end all technology consultant. If I perform as I normally do this could lead to a much bigger position at the facilitating company, VP of Information Technology. I sent in my resume for that position before this position was available. So in true Trump style I have a month interview with that company. 

There is one big difference (well many differences) between this job and my old job. Even before I accepted I said I would need to hire some people and they said no problem. At my old job if I wanted to buy anything over $25 I needed to get approval, and that usually never came due to cash issues.

I have a few things I need to do before my first day on Tuesday; get my car fixed and inspected, buy a few suits, new glasses some more shirts. I should have done that yesterday but just no time. Oh well, I have today and tomorrow.

I’m excited about this next month. Not only do I have this position but Praxair wants to interview me for a Lead Project Manager. I don’t know which I like better and I don’t know what the outcome of the contract will give. They might just say “thanks, see ya later”. Or they might make that golden offer. I guess that’s what makes life exciting but with the family to take care of, sometimes one can’t afford to be excited.