Well, in my case, the house is really a second house, necessitated by my layoff under President “BJ”, and subsequent move first to San Antonio, doing real engineering, and then to central Texas in support of the Army. We’d bought a house in San Antonio just 8 or 9 months before I was involuntarily transferred. Kept that as a rental for a year or so, but that was a money losing proposition. Bought the current 2nd house in Cen Tex.
But 6 years of supporting the Army has left what skills I do have, very rusty.
What’s the matter with me? Well, I’m old, and all my experience is with military systems, and I work at the system level, so much of the knowledge and skills are not transferable, and civilian market companies don’t understand that some are transferable.
Luckily, like you, I have a wife with a good job, (and tenure) although making less than I did. I’ll be moving back with her shortly. Which, after 13+ years living mostly apart, could be “interesting”.
Well, good luck! We could all use some.
The honest truth is that you could get hired doing SOMETHING if there was any life in this economy. There is not.
You should get a job in South Texas on the Eagle Shale fracking oil/gas industry.
Top job is a wireline operator ...six figures and up.
Me ...I just got a CDL A licence (at ago 70) and was hired within in 2 days to drive big rigs...will be heading for the fracking fields whan I have about 6 months truck driving experience under my belt....(each fracked well needs about a million gallons of water to start it up)...that’s a lot of tankers.
You should get a job in South Texas on the Eagle Shale fracking oil/gas industry.
Top job is a wireline operator ...six figures and up.
Me ...I just got a CDL A licence (at age 70) and was hired within 2 days to drive big rigs...will be heading for the fracking fields whan I have about 6 months truck driving experience under my belt....(each fracked well needs about a million gallons of water to start it up)...that’s a lot of tankers.