Shoot the Breeze With the Cooler Crew - Peoplesforum Edition

I pretty much echo what Tim said.  I'd take the Centennial Lakes job you interviewed for.  Like Terry said, you were excited when you applied so it must have been something you wanted.  I wouldn't be surprised if they come back and agree to the extra $2.  If not, as mentioned before, hang it out there as something you would earn in 60-90 days.  But in the end, it's your call.  And benefit packages do make a job more or less desirable.

CM - What I've always told my kids is try to find work that you love to do and pays enough to make a decent living

Thanks TV - That's exactly how I'm going to approach this.  I need to weigh the options on both hands.  Money vs Happiness

I think you guys opened up my eyes on the balancing I need to do.  I need to set an hourly wage for the PM job and stick to it or stay where I am.  Thank you very much. Now to come up with that wage. errrrgh!

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do you *know* for a fact that the OM job with the new company would require 70+ hours/week?

No I don't. That's the gamble I would have to take.  And now with the benefits thing tossed in (which I have no idea what the new company has) makes it all the more confusing.  The money would definitely be much better.  But if it turned out that I was making $5.00/hr when figuring in all the extra hours, it definitely wouldn't be worth it.  Thanks MOM for the input.

OT - I'm surprised you remembered where I applied.  You rock!  You don't miss a thing.  You're both right that I was excited to get the interview but I think I might have put it on a pedestal that couldn't support it.  I tend to look at all the hurtles ahead of me and focus on them too much I guess.  But I do need to think about them nonetheless.  One of them being a huge undertaking with the union on changing all the part time employees to full time status by years end.  Or at least 80/20.  That's going to be a huge costly problem that the rest of us addressed 3 years ago.  Anyway, thanks again everyone you've all been a big help.  I let cha know how it turns out.

I'm slogged to current status!!!!!  This is getting crazier and crazier every night.  I'm looking forward to the hunt when mostly one thread will be used.

CM - It's all about balance. 

Alot of good advice for you there CM just go with your gut feeling and you cant go wrong.

I was talking this sign job over with dawg and she has a very good point, the hours are 9 to 6 with about an hour of drive time I would be to tired to look for another job after that let alone work on my Illustrations so I think I am going to pass on that one and hope for the teaching job at Brown. The good thing about the Brown college job is I can work on my illustrations at work and get my Bachelors degree for cheep.

I really like the 90 day option if they don't go for the increase right away.  It kinda puts something in their hands too.

Good idea ESD.  I guess I didn't realize that it was a full time job.  Picking up your Bachelors at the same time as the Brown job would be awesome.

I totally forgot-I am new at this-but Whitney asked me to post this a couple of days ago!   ... she is selling girl scout cookies for the first time. So if anyone is dying for any cookies, I will bring the sheet with on Saturday night. Dont ask me what kinds or when they come-I am a mom, I didnt say I was a good mom! ;)

I havnt slogged through the last 345 posts

-so I apologize if someone elses children posted that they have the cookies available too

I didn't see anyone metion it me2... you seem safe

well if I didnt post it when I thought of it then I am opt to forget it again. My brain is just too full right now.

been turning people down at work left and right....

but if its me2's girls....thats another story.....talk to me on sat. nite and I'll get some....ask me after i've been drinkin' and I might not be able to find enough freezer space for a case of them.

for all you e-bay-ahollics

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50119&item=5157521345&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

and....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=206&item=5158888404&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

Clue Master 1/20/05 5:19pm

My jaw dropped as I totally wrote that job off because of a bad interview and my boss applying for it.

Told you so! Your better than you think!

So here's my questions to you guys:  Should I even consider the Operations Manager position at the other company with the positive being much more money but the negatives being the possibility of being over worked and leaving my current company which is larger?  Or how to renegotiate the $2/hr wage increase back into the PM position that I choked on?  Or stay put ...

All I can say is do what you think is right and good for youself. Don't worry what others may think. Who says that if you don't take the job, that your boss will? Maybe they didn't like your boss and you'll be stuck where you are if you stay. I would let them know how you feel about your free time and be realistic. Your supposed to interveiw
them
just as they interveiw you.
It's your interveiw also.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=50119&item=5157521345&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

$15,000.00? and randy's only a penny?

Maybe they would get more for Randy if it was his other end on a platter.

thats what I said.... what the hell... those are just polaroids taped to silver plates!... lol... the Moss one is only going for a cent, right now..

$10 bucks for shipping though. : (

off to work :(

Bye. Hope you can drive home in the snow were supposed to get.

Mikey - sorry about the job loss.  The only good thing is the timing.  Now you can hunt without time restraints.

Happy Finally Friday everyone!!  Only one more wakeup till the PDG and the beginning of Hunt '05!!!!!

See yaz tonight!

Ian you looking for this?

That's atleast the 2nd time the Doug Brien one has been up there, I know ebay already took it down once because of a policy against selling human body parts, haha. The bidding was up to $99,999,999.

Happy Birthday to me...happy birthday to me..happy birthday dear Becksie...happy birthday to me!

Anybody notice the revamped medallionators site?

'No Time For Cold Feet' starring The Medallionators

You gotta go look at them...

Check out the profile pages.

I saw that lol

Another Joe

Yoink!

I thought snod grass was in with them, Who is Rocky?

Happy B-Day Becksie and AW!!

so i'm sitting here checking out web site logs today, and doing lookups on some of the more commonly occurring ip addresses. coolercrew.com has had visitors from mndot, fairview, and as far away as toronto and the uk. woo hoo.

well i'm new and i don't know many folks yet. but...my best friend in the whole world is in iraq and this article was in the MN daily today so i thought i would share. his girlfriend, a good friend of mine, wrote it and i think it's good to spread these kind of words and let people just stew in it a little. :)

http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/01/21/62860

i hope it works.

This is Josh’s job — to be a canary in a coal mine. To be expendable.

Sad

I thought I'd show everybody my topsites websites  (other then here) for this years hunt!!!

# 1 - http://www.redbull.com/

# 2- http://www.caribou-coffee.com/index.asp?flash=false

# 3 - http://www.acehardware.com/home/index.jsp(for all your diggin' needs)

# 4 - http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/contact.html how to complain about those nasty potholes....

# 5- since I'm going to be just down the road - http://www.obbsbar.com/

#6 - http://www.taxes.state.mn.us/taxes/index.shtml -- I gotta figure out my taxes...

 

No politics here please.

HA HA HA.... This place has more politics then Washington DC

I just came in from shoveling and it's only about an inch and a half here so far.

OT.....ummm....wow....talk about a different is about 1.5 miles...

coolercrew.com has had visitors from mndot, fairview, and as far away as toronto and the uk. woo hoo.

Ahem...
Uh....You forgot Baghdad...

.my best friend in the whole world is in iraq and this article was in the MN daily today so i thought i would share.

What unit is he with?? It would be cool if you could e-gram me, I am in Baghdad now... (Sorry for the politics.... I promise, no more!!)

I might possibly catch up with the posts today!!! -Man you guys talk alot..... :)

Kitch -

You are supposed to DRINK redbull - not read about it...

mmmm  redbull.  I have a whole case of it under my desk...

boys and girls, can you say - junkie?

Really?  You have a lot more?  Maybe I should go help out the daughters in that case.

I have to drink 3 red bulls to get anything to happen to me anymore.

Of course I'm 6'4 250.. so that might have something to do with it....

Coco- don't let the mean Controller (THX) get to you! he is truly a fluffy cute cuddly puppy inside.

Pinkfluffy cute cuddly puppy inside

Lisa n Amy's mommy, you might get lucky... Zeph is in a Signal unit....

sorry if i offended. wasn't supposed to be political. just my life and my friends. thanks for the the info on the other forum though!