Over the last few months, I've felt a little stuck at work. As if I really wasn't going to be able to accomplish the things I'd like to see happen technologically. And that would be because of the inertia from above — if someone higher up the food chain had the will, then they could find the money to make it happen.
But, we're the red-headed step-children of the whole bunch, so don't look for it to happen anytime soon.
A while back – long enough that I had forgotten about it – I had dropped an application at another nearby state agency on a tech Support Analyst job. When their office called me yesterday for a phone interview, I had absolutely no idea what the woman was talking about for the first five minutes, & just played it off the cuff until I was able to figure out what was going on.
I must have talked a good game, because she called again today to ask me to come in for a sit-down with the other people there.
I'm not sure how I would feel about leaving my current cohort shorthanded, which they would be for a while if I left, but there is a little more money involved, & would be working closer to the dojo, which has its perks.
I've been here for five years, which is forever in the technology world, but barely a flicker in the state employee world.
As the wife & I were talking about the possibility last night, & little details that would go along with it, I commented that it would be great to have a doggy day care somewhere to make it easier to exercise the boys — which would be harder if I were to have an offer on the job, just because of the location.
I realized later in the shower — where all great thoughts are born — that maybe the answer was for the two of us to open our own doggy day care for others to employ!
So I'm spending a little time today researching that idea, & actually have found an affiliate program that we can use as springboard to get going… .
A job where we could both work with dogs all day long?? Hmm… .
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