Listening to Thievery Corporation's "Radio Retaliation". Pretty damn good CD. Most everything from TC is very much to my liking though. Anyhow, I'm sitting here staring at the calendar waiting for SEPTEMBER 30th!!! Thats when I fly out to Honolulu to sail again. But for now, I have to get through Cisco Router class next week and Monday & Tuesday of the following week. Misery. Oh JEE-ZUS; OH JEE...ZUSSS!!! Those classes are SO boring. It is in fact STUPIFYING to languish through them. That is to say, I feel more stupid coming OUT of those classes than when I go in. I have to attend though in order to get the certificate and rubber stamp saying I am now "certified" on that IT system component. I don't know... I probably shouldn't be so uptight about it. Its actually about $2000.00 worth of employer paid training, and I might actually learn something.
Ok, here we go... So I moved here to Seattle for this job about 18 months ago. The wife and family didn't want to move again, so they stayed in Southern California. You see, back in 2003 we lived in Oklahoma City and I was working as a civilian for the Dept of the Air Force. BUT that year I took a job in Guam at Andersen AFB. We stayed there for 2 years and then we moved to Vancouver, WA because my new job was at Portland International Airport working full time for the Air Force Reserves. Shortly after 1 damn year, the base was realigned and the 939th was abolished as Air Wing. But cheery oh!! I was promoted to a GS-11 position at March ARB in Southern California so I guess it all panned out for me anyhow. Or so it seemed...
Well, I got FAT. Got to where I couldn't pass my PT test anymore. The writing was on the wall. Pass your PT test in one year or lose your job!! Well FUCK THAT!! I mean JEEZUS I've been serving for over 20 years now eeking and scamming my way through the system, but now I was at THE BASE where nobody can beat the system. I had to pass the test THE RIGHT WAY this time and guess what... I busted with one of the worst scores in the whole damn unit. But I didn't give a shit... I'd already applied for a new job with NOAA and was just waiting on the phone call. Four months later it came.
So, now I was in an entry level job scraping muck out of a ship's Engine Room making less than half the money I was making before sitting at a desk, answering phones and passing a few emails a day. Yeah it sucked, but I was only doing that for 5 montths. All I really wanted was to get in NOAA's personnel system so that I could land a higher paying IT job in the near future. And like I said, 5 months later it came. Now I'm making a much more solid paycheck and sailing only half as much as before. Sailing IS NOT a bad thing though. Its through the sailing that all of the overtime money is made. You know how people use the term "Bread and Butter", well overtime is not just any kind of "Butter", its more like "Buttahhh".
So now you're asking yourself - "Where is he going with all of this?"
Hmmm, guess you'll have to tune in next week to find out...
Peace Out people!!!
Ok, here we go... So I moved here to Seattle for this job about 18 months ago. The wife and family didn't want to move again, so they stayed in Southern California. You see, back in 2003 we lived in Oklahoma City and I was working as a civilian for the Dept of the Air Force. BUT that year I took a job in Guam at Andersen AFB. We stayed there for 2 years and then we moved to Vancouver, WA because my new job was at Portland International Airport working full time for the Air Force Reserves. Shortly after 1 damn year, the base was realigned and the 939th was abolished as Air Wing. But cheery oh!! I was promoted to a GS-11 position at March ARB in Southern California so I guess it all panned out for me anyhow. Or so it seemed...
Well, I got FAT. Got to where I couldn't pass my PT test anymore. The writing was on the wall. Pass your PT test in one year or lose your job!! Well FUCK THAT!! I mean JEEZUS I've been serving for over 20 years now eeking and scamming my way through the system, but now I was at THE BASE where nobody can beat the system. I had to pass the test THE RIGHT WAY this time and guess what... I busted with one of the worst scores in the whole damn unit. But I didn't give a shit... I'd already applied for a new job with NOAA and was just waiting on the phone call. Four months later it came.
So, now I was in an entry level job scraping muck out of a ship's Engine Room making less than half the money I was making before sitting at a desk, answering phones and passing a few emails a day. Yeah it sucked, but I was only doing that for 5 montths. All I really wanted was to get in NOAA's personnel system so that I could land a higher paying IT job in the near future. And like I said, 5 months later it came. Now I'm making a much more solid paycheck and sailing only half as much as before. Sailing IS NOT a bad thing though. Its through the sailing that all of the overtime money is made. You know how people use the term "Bread and Butter", well overtime is not just any kind of "Butter", its more like "Buttahhh".
So now you're asking yourself - "Where is he going with all of this?"
Hmmm, guess you'll have to tune in next week to find out...
Peace Out people!!!
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Hey, I know a girl In Guam...lol
Be back for the rest of the journal entry.
Mwah!