It seems that, whenever I or anyone I know decides to attempt to find a job, it takes 6 months until something is found/finalized.
Even though I have a few promising leads (including one that I just missed the application deadline for that I was perfectly qualified for - doh - it may be reposted though), it is only just now getting into month 3 of the search.
I'm divided on where I want to go from here.
1) Find another different tech job - something to temporarily cover expenses/investments while I finish school, even if my aim is to leave the technical side afterward. It would be same game, different scenery. Hopefully a lower stress/dependency position though.
2) Find an intro business-analyst type job - prepare to actually use this degree I'm working toward. This will undoubtedly be more learning, but would be a good longer term thing. Problems here - getting hired. I don't have any business side experience, and have been turned down for half a dozen of these kind of jobs already.
Odds are this would all be in Charlotte... though I am also wondering how to move away in a couple years... anything from the traditional route of find job in other city, put house on market, rent for 6 months while house sells. Or, take the equity from this place and outright buy something wherever I'd like to live (foreign countries included), then figure out the job market there when I arrive. The second option seems optimistic, but when you can get a nice size condo for $250k just outside the ring roads of Munich or Vienna, I tend to think of it as a possibility.
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Less of the daydreaming, more of the real life - classes start up again today. Thankfully they're less technical than the two courses I took over the summer - even though the content was interesting, the numerical precision required was really annoying. I left engineering for a reason.
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For anyone not in Charlotte - be glad you are not here - There hasn't been a day with a high under 90 degrees in over a month, most in the upper 90's. Lots of trees are starting to go dormant and lose leaves early due to lack of water. Of the years that I lived in Charlotte, only a couple have had this sustained level of heat. Usually you get cyclical variation between 90's and 80's, and at least some rain in the afternoons. I'm ready for winter again.
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