My very own Relocation Consultant
This is definately a first. I received an e-mail introducing me to my relocation consultant. First my own employee consultant from Global Employment and now a get-you-there expert. As it stands today, I haven't completed the contingent portion of my hiring. Until the pee is analyzed, the pre-employment health assessment is assessed and the background check is checked, I'm not hired. All this gives me the false impression that I have a lot of time to get my affairs in order. I don't
Friday I returned a call from the Everett plant engineering manager and he offered me a structured interview. "A week too late", I told him. He then said regretfully that it was for a grade 2 position anyhow. That's for someone with 3 years experience. Fate's message is clear go to Portland and here's some more money to convince you. I also got a letter from a headhunter informing me that I was just what they were looking for. I was a generic letter referring to a range of generic jobs and postmarked from Denver. Once a person gets on a mailing list it just never stops.
The longer I mull over a decision the better it seems to turn out. Maybe it is more correct to say that the path to take is more obvious. How things turn out can be a long turn exercise in patience. That's what happened last night. I finally resolved the driveway decision. I'm going to blacktop it. If I had the time I would have used paving stones. The key is "if I had the time". The driveway is 80 feet long and opens up to 16 feet across. That's a lot of pavers to set. Not to mention sand to pour and level. It's over 1000 square feet (or 5000 pavers) big. And it also has a complicated transition that needs to be made at the city street. So the first thing I do Monday is look for asphalt paving companies a estimates.
And now the last feature of today's post is the new feature - the morning work list. This is the way it was in the merchant marine. Asea the first thing in the morning after breakfast was meeting with the B'osn mate and a briefing of the work for the day. It worked well. A simple focusing tool on the jobs that needed doing. So in that spirit, Monday's list includes; a phone call to my relocation specialist to touch base, several phone calls to pavers to find the most eager of them, a drive up to the Ford dealership for the 40,000 servicing, then off to the doctor for my 12:00 appointment to find out how to transfer records among other things and lastly faxing the inventory questionaire to the relocation person. If I can find time I need to check kennels for animal boarding and visit the vet for the dog's rabies shot. If I have the energy I can finish the upstairs bathroom (the door latch sticks and the trim needs to be installed around the toilet. That will also be Tuesday's project, except that I need to deal with the vent and fan. The work is lining itself up quite nicely. It will be a relief to start the first day of work, that's for sure.
This is definately a first. I received an e-mail introducing me to my relocation consultant. First my own employee consultant from Global Employment and now a get-you-there expert. As it stands today, I haven't completed the contingent portion of my hiring. Until the pee is analyzed, the pre-employment health assessment is assessed and the background check is checked, I'm not hired. All this gives me the false impression that I have a lot of time to get my affairs in order. I don't
Friday I returned a call from the Everett plant engineering manager and he offered me a structured interview. "A week too late", I told him. He then said regretfully that it was for a grade 2 position anyhow. That's for someone with 3 years experience. Fate's message is clear go to Portland and here's some more money to convince you. I also got a letter from a headhunter informing me that I was just what they were looking for. I was a generic letter referring to a range of generic jobs and postmarked from Denver. Once a person gets on a mailing list it just never stops.
The longer I mull over a decision the better it seems to turn out. Maybe it is more correct to say that the path to take is more obvious. How things turn out can be a long turn exercise in patience. That's what happened last night. I finally resolved the driveway decision. I'm going to blacktop it. If I had the time I would have used paving stones. The key is "if I had the time". The driveway is 80 feet long and opens up to 16 feet across. That's a lot of pavers to set. Not to mention sand to pour and level. It's over 1000 square feet (or 5000 pavers) big. And it also has a complicated transition that needs to be made at the city street. So the first thing I do Monday is look for asphalt paving companies a estimates.
And now the last feature of today's post is the new feature - the morning work list. This is the way it was in the merchant marine. Asea the first thing in the morning after breakfast was meeting with the B'osn mate and a briefing of the work for the day. It worked well. A simple focusing tool on the jobs that needed doing. So in that spirit, Monday's list includes; a phone call to my relocation specialist to touch base, several phone calls to pavers to find the most eager of them, a drive up to the Ford dealership for the 40,000 servicing, then off to the doctor for my 12:00 appointment to find out how to transfer records among other things and lastly faxing the inventory questionaire to the relocation person. If I can find time I need to check kennels for animal boarding and visit the vet for the dog's rabies shot. If I have the energy I can finish the upstairs bathroom (the door latch sticks and the trim needs to be installed around the toilet. That will also be Tuesday's project, except that I need to deal with the vent and fan. The work is lining itself up quite nicely. It will be a relief to start the first day of work, that's for sure.
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