Pucker Time - Waiting on

Pucker Time - Waiting on two jobs - or technically three. I interviewed for one job - let's call it "Job A" - last week with two separate, distinct sets of qualifications. For one set, my qualifications are stellar. For the other, not so much. We'll see.

The other two have been exercises in patience. One - we'll call it "Job B" - I interviewed for a while ago. Valentines Day, to be exact. I met the manager, who told the recruiter afterwards "This is the guy we need". There was, however, no open requisition - he just wanted to get a head start on interviewing for when the req did finally open. Seven months later, it may be opening soon. Maybe.

The other - let's call it "Job C" - is nearly perfect. It'd involve designing User Interfaces for mass storage, which I did for 2 1/2 years at another local company. I'm very good at it. My contact just needs to convince the Vice President that they need me. I have my fingers crossed.

Significantly, both jobs would be less than a ten minute commute, which will be a relief compared to the commutes to my last several long-term or full-time jobs (35, 20, 23 , 24 and 26 miles, respectively). This is becoming the make-or-break issue. I'm almost willing to trade money for short commute.

Almost, I said.

In the meantime, a contract gig that was supposed to pay my bills for the next month seems to have crashed.

Anyone need leaves raked?