Posted Monday, October 12, 2009 at 4:19 pm | Comments Off
Tomorrow will be 2 months since my last day of work on my last contract job (the one that the company ended early [for financial reasons]). As I mentioned a few days ago, there haven’t been all that many opportunities around the Fargo area … at least not opportunities that have peaked my interest. A couple of hours after I posted that entry I received an email from a company that I had applied […]
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Posted Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 1:30 pm | Comments Off
Some time during junior high and high school (I believe it was when I was in the 7th grade) I made a choice to pursue a career in weather. I honestly don’t remember what spawned that choice. It might have been a family trip to southern Minnesota where we were chased by tornadoes almost the entire way down. I remember tornado sirens going off as we would pass through towns, and when we made a […]
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Posted Friday, May 15, 2009 at 7:04 pm | Comments Off
… at my new job. Well, it was only 3 days, but
So far so good. And I like it. It’s a small office, I think there are 9 of us total, including me (the IT department is only 3, including me). The company has offices in other locations, so it’s not a small company.
I’ve even gotten to do actual work already. I’ve made some updates to the websites and put together an email […]
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Posted Thursday, April 9, 2009 at 9:47 am | Comments Off
Wow. It’s been a while since I blogged, hasn’t it. No posts in February or March. I guess I haven’t been doing anything blogworthy for the past couple months. LOL
What have I been doing for the past couple months? I was working and looking for a job. Huh? Well, I was working a contract job. It was supposed to be a 3 month contract with the option to make it permanent. It ended […]
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Posted Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 8:34 pm | Comments Off
I did something tonite that I haven’t done since the end of September of last year. I transferred money into my 2 savings accounts ($200 into each). It felt soooo good. Right now I’m getting paid just slightly more than I did at my last job. So I should be able to go back on my savings plan. I might cut back just a little though. I was aggressively saving for closing costs so I […]
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