Well, here I am, 7 months since I have worked... Having been mostly ignored by every resume/application I have sent out there into the void. Now, 7 months later, I have three prospects looming head-to-head. Well, I would really have to say two are leading, but there are three possibilities facing me at the moment for possible employment. One would be for a CLEC in Miami. I interviewed down there for what looks to be a very promising position. However, there is that daily drive off the end of I-95 through Miami traffic. Besides, I have not heard back from them in over a week despite their telling me I would hear from them one way or another in a few days. Maybe the phones are not working, I am subscribed to their CLEC. :) Next, is a Jr. Systems Administrator position for a large webhosting company in Boca Raton. Much closer. Junior position though, but in exactly what I am good at. Also, this company would be a great way to get into the door where opportunities open up to those on the inside. It's been a while since I had my 2nd interview, and have not yet heard back. Lastly, there is the internet billing company right down the street from me. I would have not worked so close to home since Publix. This position is a sales support engineer, and it sounds like it would be very promising. Very exciting. I just had my telephone interview with another SSE in CA, and that went well. I am scheduled for my on-site interview tomorrow at 2pm. So, decisions, decisions. Which to take? I don't know. Given the way things have gone in the past, I do not want to tell anyone "NO" until I have an offer of solid employment, that's for sure. So, I will just have to continue to collect information and weigh my options, but I know that the time is coming soon where I will have to decide who I want to work for so I can say "yes" or "no" when they make an offer. And furthermore, who will make the offer first? I cannot afford to decline one to have the other not make an offer. We'll see...

   Basically, I am pinning the Boca and Deerfield jobs up against each other. They both look like very lucrative positions which I would be very good at, and both seem to be very stable, reliable companies. The jobs are a little different from each other, and the shifts would be different also. So, there are a lot of factors to work out. As far as compensation goes, I do not know what either place would offer me yet. Advancement is a definite possibility in each case. One of them has offices all over the world, making relocation a possiblity with internal transfers. But lets face it, am I leaving South Florida anytime soon? I doubt it. Anyway, it is a consideration. All I can do at this point is wait and see what is offered. I really do not have a decision as of yet, because I have had no offers made just yet - only the promising prospect of it. Should both of these fall through, and also the distant Miami post, then that's it. I am out of this state. I cannot afford to scrape around here looking for work in a dead market in a dying economy that will fit my skills and not consider other locations. Perhaps it is time for me to make a move, and if I cannot find work around here, it may be a necessity. Over half a year is long enough to say "it's not going to happen - not like this". So, again, I wait to see. I feel like a speedy processor in a computer running windows idle. Nothing important to do but wait for an interrupt, yet kept busy enough doing absolutely nothing - maintaining the surrounding OS. It's takes so much to do absolutely nothing! :)