Colorado

Well, the Glass-Miller clan is on the move again! I’m transferring to Colorado Springs in a month or so. We’ve been trying to get to Colorado ever since I began applying for my job. It’s actually one of the first places I applied for over a year ago. I don’t know what took them so long to fill the position but it’s been a source of aggravation for me for the past couple of months. If they had excepted me back then I could have saved myself several thousand dollars in relocating costs moving to St Louis first. That’s neither here nor there now I guess.

I’ve been swinging back and forth on the decision to move since I found out about the possibility of a transfer. There were a lot of things my decision hinged upon. First I like the people at STL. I don’t think there’s a single person I don’t get along with (or failing that I can’t just avoid) and I love the work. Second we love St Charles and our neighborhood. It feels like home after just a few months. On the down side is the almost catastrophic collapse of the job market around St Louis. The airport looses flights everyday (of course what airport doesn’t). The biggest doubt I had was the information I received that my location pay would drop, meaning my salary would be cut. By the look of our research the cost of living was no cheaper in Colorado Springs than it was in St Louis.

When I flew to Colorado Springs (CS from now on) I immediately remembered how beautiful Colorado is and how much I love it. The pendulum swung west. After a day at the airport I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough to do (it’s very small) and the pendulum swung east. By the end of the second day after talking to the HR specialist and finding out I had been misinformed about the locality pay (it’ll stay the same) I was sold. I got to check out houses and it seems like we might actually get a bigger place for less. It won’t have the character of our current house but I can live with that.

So off we go, packing and moving an entire household for the second time in seven months. WE’RE STAYING PUT THIS TIME!!! 

Unless there’s an opening in Alaska.