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"DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully" (danceswithrotors) 05/21/2014 at 02:09 • Filed to: Life stuff.

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I'm having to make a very tough decision. I have three options:

A: Stay where I am, even though I'm not terribly happy, and the Federal contract I'm on may not be renewed. (I'll know, within the next two weeks..)

B: Move to Michigan, where I have a job offer in hand, albeit for $0.16/hour less than I'm making now, job security through 2018 (Federal contract, as well), but with no chance for promotion, but a lovely redhead to keep me company. OTOH, said redhead has a daughter, so I'll have to learn how to parent, fast.

C: I've been speaking to a recruiter at a very large, well-known Federal contractor about an OCONUS position on Gitmo. They're supposed to let me know within the next couple of weeks if they've got the contract, and if so, I'll have to hang tight until August, then have a flurry of activity, since I'd need to be on-base 1 September. However, with this, I could only take one car, and I'm thinking it'll be the Fiat.

Do I stay with what I know, even though it'll make me unhappy, do I go with the position where my personal life will be more fulfilled, at the expense of my career, or do I take the jump, go OCONUS at the expense of a budding relationship, and then try to make up the lost time, later? Right now, I'm thinking I'd be better off going OCONUS, but...

Have an Abarth for your trouble.

Your boy, BJR > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 05/21/2014 at 02:20

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Guantanamo, because CUBA CUBA CUBA!!!!

CUBA LIBRE!

VIVA LA REVELUCION!

LIFT THE EMBARGO!

Also, think of how tool it will be to get an inside look, watch the inmates day by day, see, like, how the accused terrorists live, and stuff, man!

Jeremy H formerly Kalakaboooom > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 05/21/2014 at 02:23

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Go to Gitmo man, get some change up in your life for a bit, and then come back and try your hand.

Where have all the lightweights gone? > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 05/21/2014 at 02:45

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A 16 cent/hour pay cut? That sounds pretty insignificant. Besides, I can't imagine the cost of living being any more expensive than where you are now.

Barbarian772 > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 05/21/2014 at 06:16

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Not sure about B or C, but A should be out immediately. If you're not happy, move on!

Jeff-God-of-Biscuits > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 05/21/2014 at 07:09

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Take the Redhead. Always chose the Redhead. You can always find a "job," how often do you find happy?

yamahog > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 05/21/2014 at 07:48

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$0.16/hour less than I'm making now

I took a $5k salary cut when I moved to Michigan from LA. Between taxes and cost of living, I'm actually bringing home way more now, so I don't think the difference will hurt at all. Remember, you can rent a house in a nice neighborhood out here for under $1000/mo. Also if you don't think they'll give you at least a cost of living raise at any point in that contract you can always start shopping around and either negotiate with the new offers or take them.

Also also, don't feel like you need to "parent" the kid unless you're planning on adopting her. My dad's girlfriends would try to jump into that role and it was super irritating to have someone we barely knew talking to us in a parenting capacity, especially if they weren't even living together yet.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > yamahog 05/21/2014 at 11:48

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To be fair... The fathering example I have is my dad, who would give me all the rope I needed to hang myself, get the cat tangled up in it, and then ask, "Okay, now that it's broken, how are you going to fix it?"

As for cost-of-living, it's going to be slightly less, but I'd be going from having no state income tax to having one, as well.