But I will soon find out, as I’m moving house to the land of surprisingly expensive housing sometime in the next month. The thing is, I hate all of you and I want to get as far away from you as possible while still being close enough to taunt you with the idea of me. Oh, and I got a job there.
Last week was something else. I started it by quitting my two-week-old “recession job” and being told by that employer that he didn’t consider me a “real DBA” (DBA = database administrator, in case you’ve just joined us). I then ended the week with two job offers for DBA positions and it’s been hard for me not to send a “nya nya” themed email in a certain someone’s direction, but I will resist somehow. I was also crowned Queen of England and had a poodle breed named after me, but those events seemed less important.
Some of you might say I’m lucky to get the job offers, but you have to remember, I haven’t had a full-time DBA job in 10 months (!!!). Fate screwed me over multiple times by having companies promise to hire me only to back out due to policy or financial issues. The only times I haven’t been miserable this past year were when I was too busy doing contract work to notice how miserable I was. In other words, I was overdue for some awesomeness. I wouldn’t have minded a lesser amount of whee! at an earlier date, though.
I don’t have any details yet about when I’m moving and how I’m going to pretend to be a nice person in order to make new friends but I should have news on the former later this week. All this, and I haven’t been to Kelowna since I was a kid and I liked Penticton better.
I’m with you on the liking Penticton better than Kelowna, maybe you can learn
Congrats on the job! I can see your smile from up here.
Congratulations! Kelowna’s a cool place. You’re in the heart of the Okanagan so it’s a great jumping off point for exploring plus you’re still close to Vancouver if you want to rip in for a weekend of buffoonery and good bands.
Again, well done and I look forward to hearing about your Kelowna adventures.
Say it ain’t soooo! But I suppose I have to visit you lots.
Are you getting a car? If not, I wish you well with transit, my friend.
As an ex-Kelowna’er, that was not the funnest point in my life.
Remember to bring DEET, the mosquitoes there are “HUGE”!!!!!!!!!
Yay, crazy K-town is the land of my birth (and I moved back for a year in 1998 so my younger son was born there too!)… If you live close to downtown (and the lake), you won’t have too much need for a car — but there is quite a bit of sprawlville. And the fruit & veggies cannot be beat — you’re moving there at the perfect time of year!
So – given that my criteria for a town is the amount of good coffee shops and a reasonable downtown, K-town is pretty good. I’ve had friends there for a long time, and I like the place, but haven’t lived there myself.
Sorry we’re losing you to K-town but YAY for you and the new job! REAL DBA’s deserve relocation packages, see? We will visit and bring you Vancouver care packages:
- sample vials of eau d’bus stink
- recordings of angry drivers honking at you in the crosswalk
- a thermos of burnt expensive coffee with an ill-fitting lid
- photos of people wearing nouveau-spandex yoga clothes who just *shouldn’t*
- an umbrella, of course.
you know they have urban wireless in K-town – you can blog from Bean Around The World in oldtown and keep sending us our GillFix…
@Jocelyn You can hold the eau d’bus stink, I think I’m good for a while.