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Best news I’ve had all day. Big smile. Congrats.
Yours,
Tom
Congratulations, Dean!
Wow.
Good on you.
It doesn’t pay what I’d like. But it’s real employment not contract, and it’s full-time, even with (some) benefits.
Looks like I probably start on April 5. Can’t come soon enough.
Sweet sweet candy! This is great news!
Hey, that’s great man!
One suggestion: From Day 1, show up early every day and pretend it is the absolute most important thing in your life to do well, and please the powers that be. After 3 or 4 months, you’ll be locked in.
–HB
Congratulations Dean, that’s great news!
Awesome mate, well done!
That’s fricken awesome, man!
It makes me happy.
Congratulations, that’s great news!!!!!
Good for you, man! That is great news, especially in times like this! Some of the greatest words a man can hear sometimes…”You got the job.”
Nice.
:)
very happy
Great!
Just remember who you are.
People ask who you are. Then what you do. As if it defines you.
Which in a classless society that we try to claim to be, does.
Remember who you are. You are the creator of “Deans World”.
How flipping cool is that?
Ah; What else are you going to be doing?
Sorry. Had to ask.
It has something to do with mules and some kinda black tar that I move out of Mexico. I’m working for a Mr. Coyote I think his name is. He wasn’t real clear on the details, he just said to stay cool and if the Federales come near run like hell. I assume that was all some sort of metaphor, he wasn’t clear…
;-)
Back in tech support. Which is the job I had for most of the last 9 years. Don’t love it, don’t hate it. Wish I could get back into being a corporate trainer but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life…
Good on ya!
Yee-hah!
F-ing congrats man! Good fortune comes to those who persevere. You earned it!
Hooray!!! Nothing feels better than having a job after being out of one for a long time. Outside of having money coming in , that’s almost secondary to feeling worthy again.
Blessings to you Dean, this may be a sign things in general are starting to go better for you all round!
Congrats!
Great news, good for you.
And I second Duncan’s comment. ;-)
I’ll be working in the tech sector. Which appears to be my life, even though I’d rather be a teacher. :-)
Congratulations!
gratz
Congrats, man. Good luck.
Great news. I hope your blessings multiply.
Congratulations Dean!
Congratulations, Brother! Welcome back and be prepared to feel weird about going to work the first week or two ;)
What Aziz said. You’re entitled to one exultant yell. Now calm down, don’t count chickens that aren’t hatched yet, and don’t get cocky. This isn’t good news, it’s the start of good news. Now you get to turn it into good news, one day at a time.
Yep. I don’t start until April 5, which is disappointing but lets me take care of some other bullshit. And keep looking for something even better, although I hope these people work out and I can be with them a long long time…
Excellent news!!!
This time, save your money; and don’t have as many expectations as you used to have. The outstanding characteristic of employment is that no matter important you think you are to whomever you are working for, most people’s folks’ jobs are terminated before they are old enough to collect any retirement benefits.
As you get older, it will become progressively harder to get anyone to hire you for anything whatsoever.
That is precisely why self-employment beats the other kind hands down. You are your own boss, and assuming you can find some clients for your services, you are never again likely to be fully unemployed ever again.
You are about 23 years younger than me, and I’m turning 76. So you haven’t yet got the perspective that I acquired from many disappoints. As the years go on, just try to remember what I reminded you of, back in late winter 2010.
In the meantime, go celebrate your victory over everyday circumstance, tell both your kids how much you love them, go out and have some fun. Then, early on the morning of April 5, show up for your new job, and be prepared to work your ass off to make yourself as useful and maybe even as indispensible as you know how.
Who knows? Maybe you will succeed in proving me wrong. And believe it or not, that would please me, considering we’ve been in each others lives for almost eight years now on your creation, Dean’s World.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
I was self-employed for many years and very much happier that way. I am now for complicated reasons stuck in the rat wheel of regular employment, although after I get stable with it I can continue planning/saving for opening my new business. For now, though, the need for medical insurance and for a predictable income is critical.
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