Red Mosquito

tree_ wrote:Sounds good, dad. I hope it works out well for you. Change can be scary.

Monkey_Driven wrote:Applied for a job and I know that two of my colleagues also applied. Going to be pretty awkward as I think we will all three be interviewed/considered.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Monkey_Driven wrote:Applied for a job and I know that two of my colleagues also applied. Going to be pretty awkward as I think we will all three be interviewed/considered.

tragabigzanda wrote:way to go dad!

Good luck MD.

Monkey_Driven wrote:congrats dad, you were always my hero

tree_ wrote:everyone is so nice today

dad wrote:

tree_ wrote:everyone is so nice today

when have we not played nice?

tree_ wrote:

dad wrote:

tree_ wrote:everyone is so nice today

when have we not played nice?

people around here are usually much more aloof and ambivalent, unless discussing media or describing their feces of course

spike wrote:

tree_ wrote:

dad wrote:

tree_ wrote:everyone is so nice today

when have we not played nice?

people around here are usually much more aloof and ambivalent, unless discussing media or describing their feces of course

Bonding over our BMs has brought us all closer.

dad wrote:As of this morning, I've been offered the position I interviewed for last week, and have formally accepted.

It could be a while before I start. It's another federal job, but a different agency so not a direct transfer.

My neighbor, who also works at the same agency as I do now, just got offered a job with this same gov entity--he's the one who told me about the job. He heard from a guy there that said the fed is getting ready to sign a bill that would give them a good bump in pay...somewhere in the 20k range, likely to take effect over this summer. If true, it's likely they're trying to keep their people from going to the private sector where they could earn more.

Anyway, the wheels are in motion. Hope this is the much-needed change I've been looking for.

Peeps wrote:

dad wrote:As of this morning, I've been offered the position I interviewed for last week, and have formally accepted.

It could be a while before I start. It's another federal job, but a different agency so not a direct transfer.

My neighbor, who also works at the same agency as I do now, just got offered a job with this same gov entity--he's the one who told me about the job. He heard from a guy there that said the fed is getting ready to sign a bill that would give them a good bump in pay...somewhere in the 20k range, likely to take effect over this summer. If true, it's likely they're trying to keep their people from going to the private sector where they could earn more.

Anyway, the wheels are in motion. Hope this is the much-needed change I've been looking for.

congrats dad. i was 2 weeks shy of my 50th when i took this current job. went from a 3.6 mile round trip drive to 40 mile round trip drive and other than that it is the best decision i have ever made even though that bar is set very very low