............back, back to Cali, Cali
A few of you have already heard of the big change Andrea and I are finding ourselves at in our lives. Yes fairly soon Andrea and I will be moving back to Los Angeles.
This change comes on at us from 2 fronts.
First is my want to become a commercial real estate appraiser which I got certified for after I was laid off. I've tried every avenue I can think of in or around Charlotte to get hired on as a trainee at a firm but it has all come to naught. Los Angeles is a much much bigger market for that kind of job and I have many more contacts in that area back there.
The second is Andrea wanting to change careers. She has always wanted to work with and help kids in schools but when we moved her she found herself choked by government regulation and red tape that wasn't there in her old jobs at private schools (lots to do with the accrediting process over here) and the fact that it didn't pay very well at all. The only way she could find to make what she used to was become an administrator but that took her away from kids and basically now she babysits a bunch of huge babies. (Her staff)
So she wants to go back to get her Masters in Occupational Therapy, so she can work one on one with kids and on her terms.
Unfortunately the two schools we were looking at in NC, Chapel Hill and Lenoir Rhyme aren't anywhere near us and there aren't very many schools that offer the program. The cheapest of those two schools are also 23k more for the program than the state school in LA we found that did it.
This program is also a very involved full time program for 2 years where she wouldn't be able to work while she did it.
At first I was determined we would stay in charlotte and if I couldn't get hired on as a trainee appraiser I would work 2-3 jobs to pay all the bills and get her through school and take out massive student loans for the school program. I would also sell everything of mine that wasn't essential for this to happen. This was back in March. I've still yet to find one regular job here because the job market in charlotte completely disappeared unless you posses a few key skills that I do not or you are unskilled labor which I am also not. I've most likely heard 200 times since since January that i'm too qualified for anything I was trying to apply for. The side jobs that i've been doing just won't cut the mustard for one income with our bills.
It didn't look like anything was going to happen and we were dead in the water until my mom got wind of what Andrea wanted to do and insisted that we move into her house in LA while we did it, on the grounds that I fixed it up on the weekends so she could sell it once she retires in 3 years. I didn't really want to do this at all, for personal reasons, but I know how much Andrea wants this change in her career and how much my mom has wanted me to be around more since I moved. (ahhh moms
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So to make this work so she can get her dream job we basically had to bite the bullet and suck it up and get ready to move 3000 miles away again.
This would be the main reason that no one has seen me this year except for local meetings and that for a few months I wasn't active on this board at all. I've been very busy fixing things around my house, painting, clearing out stuff so we can rent our house out. All the while I also helped 2 close friends pack up all their things and move out of state.
I also didn't say anything till now because the 2nd to last hurdle was Andrea passing her GRE, which she just did, and now we just wait to see if the college accepted her which there is a good chance at.
I've now started my search for jobs in LA just today and reached out to some contacts back there.
I will miss this club the most out of anything else here. This is by far the best club i've ever been apart of, even with the fact that we have Adam
I've seen this club grow by leaps and bounds and it is only getting better all the time.
This isn't a complete good bye though as I have family here and will be visiting the state while we are in LA. We are also planning to move back out of LA once Andrea is done and there are basically three areas that we would move to again. Charlotte, Seattle or Denver.
Andrea has to take one more prerequisite this semester and will most likely be in LA around xmas time.
For me it just depends on job search, latest i'll be here is xmas and the soonest I may be gone is a month.
So I get to load the 80 up and drive the reverse route that I did exactly 6 years ago today.
Sorry for the long winded post but there is a chance I may not see most of you again for a while and didn't want to have to repeat this story 30 times over the phone, facebook or PMs.
So I do hope to still be at Logan's run this year to have at least one more beer or in Darin's case energy drink with each and everyone of you
A few of you have already heard of the big change Andrea and I are finding ourselves at in our lives. Yes fairly soon Andrea and I will be moving back to Los Angeles.
This change comes on at us from 2 fronts.
First is my want to become a commercial real estate appraiser which I got certified for after I was laid off. I've tried every avenue I can think of in or around Charlotte to get hired on as a trainee at a firm but it has all come to naught. Los Angeles is a much much bigger market for that kind of job and I have many more contacts in that area back there.
The second is Andrea wanting to change careers. She has always wanted to work with and help kids in schools but when we moved her she found herself choked by government regulation and red tape that wasn't there in her old jobs at private schools (lots to do with the accrediting process over here) and the fact that it didn't pay very well at all. The only way she could find to make what she used to was become an administrator but that took her away from kids and basically now she babysits a bunch of huge babies. (Her staff)
So she wants to go back to get her Masters in Occupational Therapy, so she can work one on one with kids and on her terms.
Unfortunately the two schools we were looking at in NC, Chapel Hill and Lenoir Rhyme aren't anywhere near us and there aren't very many schools that offer the program. The cheapest of those two schools are also 23k more for the program than the state school in LA we found that did it.
This program is also a very involved full time program for 2 years where she wouldn't be able to work while she did it.
At first I was determined we would stay in charlotte and if I couldn't get hired on as a trainee appraiser I would work 2-3 jobs to pay all the bills and get her through school and take out massive student loans for the school program. I would also sell everything of mine that wasn't essential for this to happen. This was back in March. I've still yet to find one regular job here because the job market in charlotte completely disappeared unless you posses a few key skills that I do not or you are unskilled labor which I am also not. I've most likely heard 200 times since since January that i'm too qualified for anything I was trying to apply for. The side jobs that i've been doing just won't cut the mustard for one income with our bills.
It didn't look like anything was going to happen and we were dead in the water until my mom got wind of what Andrea wanted to do and insisted that we move into her house in LA while we did it, on the grounds that I fixed it up on the weekends so she could sell it once she retires in 3 years. I didn't really want to do this at all, for personal reasons, but I know how much Andrea wants this change in her career and how much my mom has wanted me to be around more since I moved. (ahhh moms
)So to make this work so she can get her dream job we basically had to bite the bullet and suck it up and get ready to move 3000 miles away again.
This would be the main reason that no one has seen me this year except for local meetings and that for a few months I wasn't active on this board at all. I've been very busy fixing things around my house, painting, clearing out stuff so we can rent our house out. All the while I also helped 2 close friends pack up all their things and move out of state.
I also didn't say anything till now because the 2nd to last hurdle was Andrea passing her GRE, which she just did, and now we just wait to see if the college accepted her which there is a good chance at.
I've now started my search for jobs in LA just today and reached out to some contacts back there.
I will miss this club the most out of anything else here. This is by far the best club i've ever been apart of, even with the fact that we have Adam
I've seen this club grow by leaps and bounds and it is only getting better all the time.
This isn't a complete good bye though as I have family here and will be visiting the state while we are in LA. We are also planning to move back out of LA once Andrea is done and there are basically three areas that we would move to again. Charlotte, Seattle or Denver.
Andrea has to take one more prerequisite this semester and will most likely be in LA around xmas time.
For me it just depends on job search, latest i'll be here is xmas and the soonest I may be gone is a month.
So I get to load the 80 up and drive the reverse route that I did exactly 6 years ago today.
Sorry for the long winded post but there is a chance I may not see most of you again for a while and didn't want to have to repeat this story 30 times over the phone, facebook or PMs.
So I do hope to still be at Logan's run this year to have at least one more beer or in Darin's case energy drink with each and everyone of you
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) She reminded me that we will be a whopping 3 miles from rowher flats OHV area and the start of a trail network stretching thousands of miles so I would kill myself if I didn't have it. 
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