{"id":299,"date":"2016-07-14T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T15:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2019-06-11T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T19:15:44","slug":"logistical-mayhem-part-iv-westward-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/07\/14\/logistical-mayhem-part-iv-westward-ho\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scenic Route Part IV – Westward Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having two job offers in the bag by the time you get home from a third interview is a pretty fantastic feeling \u2013 especially after the nightmare of the Houston economic downturn last year.\u00a0 So, it was time to debate the options and make some life-changing decisions\u2026which has begun to feel fairly routine for the last year or so!<\/p>\n

Despite the lure of fabulous Chicago summers and great friends, in the end, we couldn\u2019t go with the GE job because the offer on the table was a 12 month contract-to-hire and Russell has been without medical benefits for nearly 18 months at this point. Also, there was not even a hint of remote work possibility which means we\u2019d be tied to Chicago with no vacation or the ability to travel and the whole RV lifestyle would continue to be pointless. Plus\u2026neither of us are sure we could survive the brutal white-knuckle-wind-winters on the Lake!<\/p>\n

That left us with the offer from Trace 3 (since Amazon is a very slow-moving machine) and, luckily, it was an absolutely amazing one! Unlimited paid vacation whenever the project work is complete, generous compensation and benefits from Day 1 and\u2026best of all\u202680% remote!! No rushing to pack up and race across the country, no 9 to 5 in an office every day, no pointless commute\u2026.Russell has definitely won the job lottery this time and we couldn\u2019t be more thrilled!<\/p>\n

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Hope at last!<\/p><\/div>\n

We will eventually head to the California area after the holidays for a while but the rest of our year can continue as planned and we will finally have the opportunity to see New England properly before heading back to Houston in November.<\/p>\n

Russell\u2019s official first day is tomorrow, July 15th<\/sup>, and I can\u2019t help but think back just four short months ago to March 15th<\/sup> \u2013 the day we finally arrived in Connecticut. We\u2019d survived (barely) one of the worst weeks of our lives moving the RV, trailer and cars from Houston to New England and thought things couldn\u2019t possibly get any worse. Life proved that, yes, they certainly could, but in the end it was all part of a systematic breakdown to allow for vast improvement in the end.<\/p>\n

Today is our first day back in Houston for a two week visit, after which we will return to Tri-State and promptly move all the vehicles to Bar Harbor, Maine! After a couple months enjoying the eastern Vacationland paradise\u00a0and ushering in the autumn color change first-hand, we will at last\u00a0embrace the phrase \u2018Westward Ho\u2019 as the rest of the US will at last be at our finger tips. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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This is the first part of a 4 post series:<\/em><\/p>\n

Part 1<\/a> | Part 2<\/a> | Part 3<\/a> | <\/em>Part 4<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having two job offers in the bag by the time you get home from a third interview is a pretty fantastic feeling \u2013 especially after the nightmare of the Houston economic downturn last year.\u00a0 So, it was time to debate the options and make some life-changing decisions\u2026which has begun to feel fairly routine for the… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9,3,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Final-9014.jpg?fit=1805%2C1205&ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p913i7-4P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homesweetroam.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}