Okay, wow. I seriously did not realize it had been so long since I had done an update. I apologize for that. Pretty much things have been a little bit crazy on my end. I do not want to go into lengthy detail about it, but after six years of being on the Marathon Oil contract for SAIC it is finally coming to an end at the end of October. Plenty of time for me to find a job, so I am not panicking, but mostly just disappointed that Marathon decided to go in a different direction. But after ten years, can you really blame them? Yeah, that is right. Ten years! In the IT world, having a contract with a company that long is practically unheard of. Does not mean that I didn’t almost cry when I was told about it, though lol. This job has been the stepping stone for me in the IT industry and now because of it I am getting called by recruiters about my updated resume on a daily basis. I have to put on my big boy pants, go to tons of interviews, and see what I can get offered for real.
With that being said, as you can imagine, things have been really busy. I am going to get the easy stuff out of the way first lol. I let my beard grow out for at least two months or so, if not longer (hard for me to keep track of time these days), and this was the end result before I shaved:
And after I had a pretty damned nice goatee going on (which I recently shaved because I want to look mostly clean shaven due to interviews… it can always grow back!):
I will likely feel more comfortable growing out my facial hair again after I get hired at a new job. For now I want to look professional and give that impression. Once I have the job, I don’t really care, and neither should my employer you would think. Most of the places I have interviewed at seem pretty casual. This is the most facial hair I want to have at the moment:
Seriously, I love having a stache, that isn’t gonna change! Anyways. Aside from that, yeah. Finding a new job is pretty interesting. I have had two interviews thus far and have had a lot of recruiters reach out to me. All good things. We’ll see what comes out of the interviews. There is one job in particular that I am really interested in taking, but am unsure if I will get an offer for it. Only time will tell. Things with Rachel and I are great. We’re handling things pretty smoothly these days. She’s been working a lot and is willing to pick up extra shifts so we can try and catch up on bills. Cause seriously being stuck not being able to move really sucks.
We had a really great date night shortly after her birthday at Outback Steakhouse. This was taken the night we went and we had a great time:
I am back into playing Skyrim, that damned game steals my soul! I have discovered the beauty of mods lol. So I have been playing Skyrim practically non stop the last week and a half or so. Since I am doing interviews after my work hours, I haven’t been getting a whole lot of sleep lately. I pretty much slept this whole weekend away and it’s already back to work at 2 am tomorrow morning. I am going to enjoy work while I can.
I think that about covers everything, I am sure that I will update again once I get a new job. I hope that everyone has been well!
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