Don't be an ass, the job market sucks everywhere. DFW is probably better than most.

I need to spend some time thinking on my own professional path. Uhrg.

Don't be an ass, the job market sucks everywhere.

I'm not being an ass. I just don't think msbelle is finding work worthy of her talents.

Good lord, having just moved, I know what you mean.

I think I might have mentioned that when we moved here, we found a box in the Columbus house that we hadn't touched for the entire 9 years we lived in the house. We tossed it out, unopened before we moved. We figured if we didn't need anything in it in 9 years, we never would. It was sort of liberating.

She'd filling in, trying to buy mental space. I'm pro no-drama-or-stress. Also, why were emergency vehicles going the wrong way down my street? Um, should go gawk and find out.

She'd filling in, trying to buy mental space.

It was not a critique of her. In my mind, msbelle is such an exemplary employee, hard working, smart, pleasant and conscientious, that if she is not weighing her offer letters by the pound then it is entirely the fault of the market.

Is that more clear?

Anyway, it was a joke. A throwaway joke.

Thanks for the updates, everyone. I"m so glad Sass has been spotted and tracked.

Because the job market is so good down there?

David, I am going to apologize in advance because I can't remember, are you working now or looking for work? I ask because the job market in California blows. I have spent the last 3 months looking for a new gig and my friends who have been laid off or displaced are finding it equally grim. Maybe you don't know how bad it is HERE if you aren't looking?

I could understand a jab at DFW if California were thriving (or on 1,000 other issues) but that's certainly not the case.

I would consider DFW, except the only grandparent it gets us closer to is the craziest one. She, a retired teacher, found a job in pretty short order in Dallas. But she wasn't looking for something that would allow her flexibility to raise a kid.

We tossed it out, unopened before we moved. We figured if we didn't need anything in it in 9 years, we never would. It was sort of liberating.

I've been doing that with the old files I've been going through the last few weeks. If nobody's needed the stuff in these folders in the fifteen years since the project was done, probably we don't need to save it, right?

This morning I shared a lane with P, a guy I see swimming all the time. Well, he's there when I am there. He's also there when I bring Noah to lessons.

I asked him if he swims every day. He said, yes sort of. On Tues/Thurs, he said, he only swims for an hour with the masters group. But on Mon/Wed/Fri/Sat/Sun, he swims for 2 hours and 30 minutes following this long, but slow workout. Said it kept his cholesterol down and was better than meds. GOOD ON HIM I say! Amazing.

I am not much of a tchochke person, so I don't have trouble with that, but paperwork is my bane. I did a few purges at points, and now I'm wishing I'd kept a few of the (work-related) things so that I could say what exactly I worked on--stupid porous memory! (I had an interview at a place I've worked before and they went "what is this on your resume about xyz?" and I ...couldn't remember. I wrote that right after I left!)