I GOT A JOB!!!

I got a job. The company I interviewed with (Total Control Solutions) hired me, and said I can start when I want, and I told them I’ll be there Monday.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance, 401K, profit-sharing, good stuff in general.

This place is hiring me to sell computers, LCD, computer enclosures and things like that to industrial companies to go in big machines that make things. So I have the computer knowledge, I have the technical background, I am a people person, and I know what the inside of a manufacturing environment looks like.

This whole deal was crazy, it was me finishing my resume last weekend, finishing my cover letter Monday afternoon, sending both to two companies and putting my resume on monster.com. Then two calls back the next day, one from this company, and one from a recruiter hiring for cummins that wanted a little more power engineering background than I had. I haven’t heard from the cummins guy yet, but the call from TCS wanted to interview me the next day, and I went in for a two hour interview and this morning they called and offered me a job.

Thanks to everyone who was praying for me, now you can switch to praying more for Caleb who is working some temp jobs until he can find a good engineering position. Also a big thanks to Dave Lin, my Mom, and my wife for helping me with my resume and cover letters.

In other news Lauren is on MSN instant messanger under the name hoplark AT hotmail DOT com and she is using AIM under then name HopeLark. Also, the irony of our agreement to only get the cable modem internet and not regular cable until I got a job was not wasted on me today when I was wating for a second call back from the hiring guy, and a cable guy called and said he was there to put a trap on the cable so we couldn’t get cable out of the cable line, and could only get internet. So we agreed I can order basic cable which means a guy has to come back to the appartment and take the trap off. Also, this means I can get my Ipod painted when I get it. That is cool.

I need to go to the post office today and make sure my address change is in place. That would be good. Has anyone gone to our old house to see if we are still getting mail there? That would be cool if someone did that just in case, because I would hate to have them delivering mail I’m not getting. Guys from the old apartment, I got the power bill forwarded from my Mom, so I’ll be emailing you soon with how much money I need from you, I’m going to just pay it and then have you send me checks. Email my gmail if you have any questions about that.

Besides that, I’m still trying desperately to replace my crappy 13 inch TV with the nice new free Sony Wega from www.freeflatscreens.com. Please click that link and help a brother out…..but don’t worry too much about it.

I’m thinking of a way to enlist people to help get my parents a free computer from the same people that are giving away the Ipods and TVs. There is another site that requires 10 referrals for an OK computer. A computer that would be a major upgrade (we’re talking old IBM 266MHz, not GHz) so if people may be interested in helping me out with that, I would rather have them help there than with the TV thing. My parents are poorer and in more debt than I am, so I think it is best to help them get free stuff first, and me second. Plus, I’ll have an Ipod in 2 weeks to a month, so I only care about the TV because it is annoying to try to watch TV with people with that small of a TV…plus bunny ears suck a lot.

My wife has been gone a while, I think I’ll go check to see where she is now.

So have a good time people, I’m about to start my professional career.