So Dave got a job today.

And yet somehow I am not jumping up and down with joy and glee and thanking God and the Academy about it. Why, when I�ve been ready for him to take up poop-scooping for pay at this point?

The job he got is the one I mentioned yesterday having reservations about. The one that has mandatory weekend working (though apparently it�s usually only on Sundays for short periods). And while as far as I have been able to check, it�s not a scam (fundraising for colleges), there are elements to this job that to me scream too good to be true. I just don�t want this to turn out to be yet another bust, you know?

Two things outright remind me of the perfume place: (a) quick hiring- he was hired after an hour and a half because he was in the top third who gave good phone, I guess. Shouldn�t places take ages to hire people these days? (b) they offer a hell of a lot of bribery when you work there. $50 bonus if you come in on time all month, plus get entered in a drawing (�They have to bribe people to come in on time?!� I gasped), plus various other little competitions around the office depending on fundraising goals. I asked him how long people tended to stay there and he said there were 15 people (out of I think 30) that had been there since the beginning. Okay...

Then there�s two other things that well, really seem too good to be true, especially in these days and this economy. (a) they give full on medical and dental coverage after three months, and (b) will pay for you to go to college, as long as the college is in their area and doesn�t interfere with your work schedule. Not that I don�t love those things, mind you, but I do wonder.

As for transfer potential, they are supposedly going to get a branch office nearby me within the next year. I wonder how long that will take.

In all honesty, though, I�m thinking that trying to plan for him to move over here next year is not going to work out. I need to know the official plan SOON- within the next two months- and it doesn�t seem likely that he�ll know by then. If he�s willing to commute a lot, okay, (and if the car works), but it�d be a pain. And we don�t know when the other office will open, or if the schooling thing will transfer either.

And of course, he�s got job training for the entire weekend. (Frustratingly, our anniversary is the 2nd, and when does first paycheck come in? The 3rd, I believe. Hell, he�ll probably have to work that day anyway.) And even if I could afford to go up there, I can�t because Grandma�s had too many houseguests lately and "needs a break." Somehow I knew the second he told me about this job that (a) he�d get it, and (b) there�d be no weekend visit. Dammit. I don�t like going three weeks without. I have been needing to see him lately.

Meanwhile, S&D will still be coming to visit me on Friday and hauling me to the casino on Saturday. Gives me something to do, I guess...

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