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How long since the last "looking for a new job" thread? Start the clock again. I haven't quit yet, but if I don't have a new job by May 17, I'm giving notice that day and my last day will be May 31.
I can't abide my boss anymore. A good friend at work told me I act and sound just like a battered wife. I resisted this at first, but in thinking about it, and watching myself for several weeks, I'm embarrassed to say I agree. Anyone who's read my work rants probably would agree, I guess. I haven't read over them with this perspective.
The other day on the way to work, Mrs. V. and I talked about whether we could afford for me to quit before I find a new job. When she abruptly told me I should make May 31 my last day, I was so shocked I cried. I don't know why but I didn't expect her answer to come that easily. I knew she would support my decision to quit. After all, she is the one who has to live with the daily tales of my boss.
I have one headhunter working for me so far, and I have two interviews in the next couple of weeks. I wanted to work nearer to home, but down here in BFE I can't make anywhere near the money I can in DC. I don't really care about making a lot of money. But there is this lifestyle-to-which-we've-become-accustomed thing to deal with. Plus we want to be help financially when friends & family need it, to get home to CA & TN now & then, etc.
The best part of this -- besides that I am dropping a house on the Wicked Witch of the East (back off, gay brothers, my best friend gets the shoes) -- is that I will be FREE when my best friend & nephew are in town in June! Even if I have a new job by then, everyone who interviews me more than once will hear that I have a two-week vacation planned in June and I can't alter the dates.
That's my news. What's yours?
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