Tsunayoshi's Journal: Life changing event (not another kid luckily)

Was going to post this earlier but after reading one of Ethelred's recent journals it didn't quite feel right shouting out good news.

I farmed out my resume right before I went on my long ass trip and while I was out got a message from the wife about someone calling with a job in the DC area. Called the guy back, passed the pre-screening phone interview (fire off 10 *nix commands and what they do, whoopie) and they set me up with a face-face interview with the government leads for the project. I get back, drive up the the DC area for the interview. I meet the company recruiter (for a government contracting company), get escorted down to the government offices and get grilled for two hours on my *nix experience, everything from automated installs to firewalls, dns, locking down systems, etc. The two guys interviewing me are the lead on the sysad team and his boss, who is also the webmaster lead. We shake hands, I get passed off back to the contractor guy and spend 20 minutes getting a brief on the contract from the company program manager, then we sit down to talk about benefits, pay, etc. By this time both my interviewers had already emailed back and to the company that they were to pursue and hire me.

We finish up the rest of the company piece for the interview, they say they'll get back to me either way probably the next day. I drive back down to Richmon, have lunch with my friend at his workplace, and then go to finish the drive back home. Get a call on the cell phone, it is the regional recruiter giving me a verbal offer of exactly what I was asking for, PLUS a signing bonus to cover my relocation expenses (they don't officially pay for relocating). Basically, from meet to hire was less than 6 hours.

Now I am going back to the area this weekend to meet some people whom I found on roommates.com who are renting out basements so I have some short term place to live while the wife clears up some stuff back in Chesapeake and then the family will come up and join me. In the meantime I will be commuting back and forth every weekend unless I am on shift or something.

Basically I am extremely upbeat, although I really like the people I currently work with (they are not why I left) so is kind of depressing along with the stress of having to move and almost restart all over again in a new city. At least I know some people in the new area so I have an "in" with the place.

I will of course still be on /., so you are all still stuck with me :-)

P.S. To preempt the same question I have already gotten 15 times in real life, even counting the cost of living difference between DC and here, it is still a very good pay raise, plus only ONE job so no part time like I have now. I may finally get out of debt.