Yeah, day 40! Based on my Facebook status update this morning, my extended family might just figure out that I’m unemployed. I never bothered to tell them. Gee, guess I should have done them about 40 days ago!
That meeting I had yesterday wasn’t what I would call “ideal.” The company is best described as enthusiastic, but with no money. They are looking to add a me to the mix to do a lot of work – much of it in my area of weakness. This is hardly a fit, no matter how competent these guys are – I would be the problem! They would be better served by choosing someone else.
Funny, the building they work in used to be a place I played in some 25 years ago as the bassist for “Passion”: Gilbert Zapps. Being in the vicinity of these now dead clubs: Zapps, Pumas (now a restaurant) and Sound Tek Studios (not dead), where I recorded so many songs, brought back a ton of memories. The last time I was here (marking the end of my “professional” music career) was 20 years ago – almost to the day!
Wouldn’t you know it, on the way to the meeting I got a phone call from one of my former bosses. He wanted to know if I would be interested in doing some layout consulting work with him in about a month. He’s a good guy, but his schematics were always hard to follow, which makes my job that much harder. I’ll do the work if I need the money, but currently, I’m not really interested.
At some point, I should really, really get moving towards looking into teaching (or writing, or preaching…). Right now, the only opportunities before me are in semiconductors.
Day 40 mood: Hmmm… Where is God leading me?