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well yesterday I went in for that BIG job interview. I got wind today they may have been fakin the funk..well not really ,it is more a combo of them not being able to afford me and the catch 22 of government contracting.

I am going on 12 years exp in the IT work, as of April. So they assumed I had a college degree..well they were wrong. Though I have been working slowly but surely on it since 96,lol. In the computer world I have never had to worry about not having a degree since they payed me for my ‘skillz’. So that cause a minor snafu when they were trying to figure out what to offer and noticed my degree said “in progress” on my resume,lol. I think they are going offer about 10k more then I make now instead of the initial 20k, but it’s not worth it. After taxes its only like 8k a year then throw in a completly different work environment (I work at a reasearch facility,so there is tons of free exchange of info to learn about like seminars of nanotech, robotics, AI, infosec , not too mention even the dept head wears jeans to work everyday. Where as I’d be going to a consulting firm with more stress, 2x as much work, mind you still cool stuff to work on, but I don’t think it’d be an even trade. I am happy where I am at, and with a high school degree and a few yrs of college earn more then many of my friends parents, so I should be gratefull and not so quick to try to get back to six figures again, as lnog as I do it by 30 I can still afford my lake house in Austin,lol