So 2019 has not worked out the way I planned in so many ways. To say that the first half of the year was chaotic is an understatement. I can honestly stay that we thrive on the unknown but it’s getting old. I know that if we ever had predictable stability we would get bored with it in about 3 days. The first half of this year has been so ridicules that I started looking for new jobs in the hope that new would be better. After two years with one company it is time to look. Well I looked and I found. Or I guess they found me. After waiting two weeks after the interview to hear if I got it or not I found out I got it. But that was a week ago and I haven’t heard any more details since.
The job would be a two weeks on and two weeks off but it would be an office position. The time off would be great to improve my very skewed work life balance. The down side would be that I would need a place to stay while I was working and a place to park Tank while I was on days off. This new job comes with a pay cut but lots of benefits. Benefits like living in the city with traffic but a regular address, working in an office but with an onsite gym, close to an airport but not a major one. This job would be perfect if my husband was in the states and had been waiting patiently for me to be done working in the field but that’s not my husband. I wouldn’t have wanted him if it was. There is so much more to the world and we only get to be here for a short time so we can’t waist any of it. This job would be perfect if we wanted to live in OKC and come home to our suburbia house and never see each other. So after lots of talk and a huge pros and cons list I think we are both more excited about the idea that I stay working where I am for now and make enough to get me out of this job in the next year instead of taking the pay cut and prolonging the waiting. So with that in mind I have to change the tittle of this blog (not for the first time this year. Oh well!). The original went something like this:
But now it’s called how NOT to get a job. It was exciting and vindicating to be wanted but for me and my lifestyle it’s not right. Some might say its fear of the unknown but I honestly think it’s the opposite. I think it’s the fear of the known. I know OKC I have been there. There is more to see. Sure the field life is very much the same day in and day out and ten years from now it will look very similar today. Every time I go one days off I think there is no way they can get along without me but every time I come back I see they are doing just fine. We are all interchangeable clogs out here but we all play apart none the less. I know a place where I am missed every time I leave the room. And for me that is where the long term future is. and the rig pictures are just something pretty to look at. Enjoy!
