....so... may be making a few changes soon.
The woman wants to leave SF... she's hated it on the west coast within about a year of getting here, but only put up with it so I could be close to my mom.
Of course, that patience ended about 24 hours after her death, and the question of when we're leaving SF and where we're going popped up right away.
I've been working with a friend who's chinese company was bought and folded into a larger company out in Missouri... he wants me to go work for the division he's in, but his thoughts on what I would do are pretty vague.... we've been working it out a little... discussing the sort of products they are developing and how I could get involved, but nothing specific other than he wants me to go over there. Much of what I would do would be outside of the industry knowledge I've been developing for years.
Then today, an old coworker on the east coast just called and offered me his job. Flat out it's mine if I want it. He's taking his boss's job and he gets to hire his replacement.... same company I used to work for as a contractor 4 years ago, they'll offer me a 2 year contract as a contractor or a full time position, my choice.
But then... the contract work I've been doing in SF just started getting interesting. We picked up a small company in the city here, who probably won't sustain me long but is a nice change of pace... and I managed to wedge my way into a project with an extraordinarily large company because their client in the bay area actually had them stop using two other guys in favor of me. Hugely satisfying to know they liked my work so much more, but also really good for the contracting company, because that puts us on a short list for any GxP work their project manager is going to be doing in the bay area. Horribly boring work, but the client doesn't bat an eye at pretty large purchase orders ....
I get about 1 month to decide at most.... coincidentally, it all hits when my lease expires... it'd be nice to stop paying 4k/mo.