Josh66
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This town is pretty boring, lol.
Sometimes I just want to pack up and move. This is actually the longest I've ever lived in one place, like - in my life (I'm 30), lol. (5 years)
Usually, I've had to move because I had a ****ty job and there was a better job somewhere else. Now, it's pretty much the opposite - I have a good job but live in a ****ty town.
Being an aircraft mechanic, I can go almost anywhere (most jobs are in the south though) - but I would most definitely have to take a pay cut... If I were fired or something, I would take what I could find - but leaving by choice, it would be hard to consider anything that didn't start with at least $30/hr... And those jobs are pretty rare outside of airlines. (Which I'd rather avoid, for various reasons. #1 being that I don't have my A&P. I know I should have gotten that years ago ... but that's another discussion.)
I would like to move back to Ohio, but there is very little aviation there... Wright Patterson AFB would be my best chance of finding a good job there. There are jobs everywhere, but none of them would match what I make now. I had a dream the other night that I moved to Chicago, lol.
So far, the short list is Delaware (Wilmington area), Florida (Miami area), or California (LA area). I think Delaware would come the closest to matching my pay, but of the three is the only one where I have no family. It's not far from Ohio though, where most of my family is. I imagine the cost of living is also pretty high in Miami and LA, lol. I had a very good job in Wilmington once, and I'm sure they would take me back without even thinking about it. I liked living there too. Sometimes I wonder why I left...
If I moved to California, I would have to sell some guns first... The thought of that doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would though... What does bother me is that pretty much anywhere I went would make me shave and take my earrings out. :lmao:
There are other places I'd like to go too (Charleston, Savannah, etc...), but it would require a pretty drastic pay cut... I hate this - being stuck somewhere because of money. The good money is overseas... But, I'm not taking my family to a war-zone (which is where the good money is - civilian contractors in war-zones - I don't think I could take them anyway, even if I wanted to).
I have a solid resume, so any interviews would pretty much just be negotiating pay. I also think that I'm not a very good negotiator... I've always just agreed to whatever they first offered (which was generally good, considering my experience at the time).
Two things I miss and haven't really seen since I came down here - snow and hills. And the color green, lol. I know money isn't everything, but I'm finding it very hard to justify a $5-10/hr pay cut... Especially when you consider that the cost of living will most likely be higher where ever I go.
Just thinking out loud here... I don't know if this is normal for most people, or if it's just an aviation thing (if you don't know any aircraft mechanics - we tend to move around a lot. Sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity.). Like a buddy of mine used to say - my feet are itching.
Sometimes I just want to pack up and move. This is actually the longest I've ever lived in one place, like - in my life (I'm 30), lol. (5 years)
Usually, I've had to move because I had a ****ty job and there was a better job somewhere else. Now, it's pretty much the opposite - I have a good job but live in a ****ty town.
Being an aircraft mechanic, I can go almost anywhere (most jobs are in the south though) - but I would most definitely have to take a pay cut... If I were fired or something, I would take what I could find - but leaving by choice, it would be hard to consider anything that didn't start with at least $30/hr... And those jobs are pretty rare outside of airlines. (Which I'd rather avoid, for various reasons. #1 being that I don't have my A&P. I know I should have gotten that years ago ... but that's another discussion.)
I would like to move back to Ohio, but there is very little aviation there... Wright Patterson AFB would be my best chance of finding a good job there. There are jobs everywhere, but none of them would match what I make now. I had a dream the other night that I moved to Chicago, lol.
So far, the short list is Delaware (Wilmington area), Florida (Miami area), or California (LA area). I think Delaware would come the closest to matching my pay, but of the three is the only one where I have no family. It's not far from Ohio though, where most of my family is. I imagine the cost of living is also pretty high in Miami and LA, lol. I had a very good job in Wilmington once, and I'm sure they would take me back without even thinking about it. I liked living there too. Sometimes I wonder why I left...
If I moved to California, I would have to sell some guns first... The thought of that doesn't bother me as much as I thought it would though... What does bother me is that pretty much anywhere I went would make me shave and take my earrings out. :lmao:
There are other places I'd like to go too (Charleston, Savannah, etc...), but it would require a pretty drastic pay cut... I hate this - being stuck somewhere because of money. The good money is overseas... But, I'm not taking my family to a war-zone (which is where the good money is - civilian contractors in war-zones - I don't think I could take them anyway, even if I wanted to).
I have a solid resume, so any interviews would pretty much just be negotiating pay. I also think that I'm not a very good negotiator... I've always just agreed to whatever they first offered (which was generally good, considering my experience at the time).
Two things I miss and haven't really seen since I came down here - snow and hills. And the color green, lol. I know money isn't everything, but I'm finding it very hard to justify a $5-10/hr pay cut... Especially when you consider that the cost of living will most likely be higher where ever I go.
Just thinking out loud here... I don't know if this is normal for most people, or if it's just an aviation thing (if you don't know any aircraft mechanics - we tend to move around a lot. Sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity.). Like a buddy of mine used to say - my feet are itching.
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