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Posted By: Tanya <tlsmith19@juno.com> In Response To: An update about my situation (BenV)
Tuesday, 5 September 2006, at 8:07 a.m.
> Things appear to be on the mend here. Later in the evening of my long post
> we had one more bad event happen and things have been uphill since. My
> wife started feeling better and I discussed my orders to Korea with her
> Saturday night while my mom had the older two kids at the circus and the
> younger two were napping. There is a very good chance that my commander
> will nix the orders.
> Luckily, I have much more control over the situation this time. If we
> decide that I am going to stay in the Air Force I need to go to Korea (as
> a career move). If the commander doesn't nix the orders but we decide that
> we would be better off out of the military then I can just refuse the
> retainability (which would automatically deny any reenlistment attempt).
> If this is my last enlistment then I need to start networking and find an
> IT job for 15 months from now (I don't have enough in savings to cover
> even just the diabetes supplies if I can't get into a good insurance
> coverage, so relying on a self-started business is out of the picture
> "for now").
> So I'm studying the IT market in Central Texas according to monster.com to
> determin what I should focus on learning in the next year since my AF
> career has been pretty much Help Desk, Hardware/Software Technician, and
> some server administration. I have had training in the MS 2000 courses as
> well as Solaris 5 and Fiber Optic repair, but it still comes back to lack
> of focus. I could probably pass the A+ cert test today but I'll be smart
> about it and study first, but I'm not sure what a good second (and
> possibly third) certification would be that could be obtained with less
> than 12 months of evenings only.
> As you may guess by the detail in this, I don't intend to stay in the Air
> Force. I have been at odds with the recent changes in the fitness
> requirements from day one due to several conditions, but all of that aside
> - I have the darndest luck for getting bad military supervisors (when you
> are stuck under contract and unable to change jobs it is far worse than
> having the option of quitting tucked away for comfort). Even if 'that'
> wasn't a concern, the Air Force is both cutting jobs from my field and
> making some very stupid policies that affect computers (I really don't
> want to be around when that mess finally falls apart).
> We had the van towed to a more reputable repair shop who said that it does
> look like the computer is gone but it is an easy fix and the part should
> only cost $100 (and the dealer wanted $600 to replace the alternator -
> this dealer actually has several smear sites about it). Due to the holiday
> weekend we won't have it back before Tuesday at the earliest.
> Mom and the baby are fine even if the baby still has his days and nights
> mixed up.
I'm glad to hear things are better for you. Hope they continue to improve. Baby having days & nights mixed up is pretty normal. Just pray he doesn't get colic, it's awful. And I still had 2 more after that!!
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