A few days of being an unemployed bum is great. Rest and relaxation, taking care of little things around the house, and generally not doing much of all was a nice change of pace. Weeks of being an unemployed bum, though, is a bit of a drag. And my wife likes it less than I do, as illustrated by a mostly-lighthearted conversation from last Friday:
Wife: I'm tired of being the breadwinner around here.
Me: But I baked bread today. [which is true, two loaves of wheat bread]
Wife: I'm tired of bringing home the bacon.
Me: But even if I get a job, you'll still have to go shopping.
Wife: But I'm tired of buying the bacon.
Me: You shouldn't steal bacon.
Wife: [the look]
But things are looking promising. My employer prior to EAD has made me an offer to come back. I've had first-round interviews(*) with a hospital system and with an insurance company. And today I got set up with an interview for a position with the avionics company that pretty much every engineer I know works for or has worked for.
So I've got some irons in the fire. It's exciting having so many great possibilities open. I hope to get two interviews and get an offer for both of them, but that'd just be icing on the cake. I also hope to have time and weather conspire to let me take a nice all-day bike ride before I start the new job, whatever it is.
(*) First-round interviews are chats, in person or over the phone, with HR folks or recruiters, in order to make sure that you pass the Turing test and are not obviously an axe-wielding psycho. And now that I've typed that, I feel like I need to have an axe handy for my next phone screen...
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