Of certain import is my situation, oh blogulant ones.  I work as a traveling software tester.  They pay me to go to their offices, I do my best to help them fix their shitty programs.  This time, I was sent off to one of the more unsatisfying adventures of my career.  I was sent to the Newest Jersey, home of Snooki and other such distasteful guidos in order to help baby soap manufacturing giant Johnson and Johnson solve a problem.  I will not bore you to bones with technical details but suffice to say I am merely retreading established pathways.  The issue with this is the trekking itself.  You see, the J&J offices are located in scenic buttfuck egypt, NJ.  I am there from Sunday night until Friday afternoon every week.  The problem being that I get no time at my house.  I bought my house with the intent to live in it, but it appears that will not be the case as I've gotten a solid two months of actual living time out of the place.  It is more of a winter home, one that I inhabit one full day a week.  That being said, I stewed on the issue and decided it may be about time for a job switch.
Today marks the first day of the search.  Granted all I did was fill out profiles on Career Builder and Monster to attract some interest with likely candidates, but it's a start.  I would find it quite lovely to end up in a position with far, far less non-local travel (as in no travel) as of right now it's bothering me to the point of wanting to be done with it all (not a shotgun mouthwash, mind you).  I shall use this as a checkpoint and wait to see how things end up.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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