Right when I accepted the fate that I'll be stuck for a few months without work; and have some plans of projects to keep me sane during this period... Fate threw me yet another unexpected curveball.

The other day I had another phone interview. I wasn't expecting anything to come from it. It was through a Recruiter who contacted me about the Job out of Georgia who I suspect is actually in India patched in through the US from a call center in GA. Ugh. I really really hate those. And normally, normally I would have just let it go and ignored it.

However, I decided to humor myself and decided to try to work past the language Barrier and see what they had to offer. Turns out the job they were subcontracting for was for my old employer I walked away from a year ago. But on the Flipside it was a totally different job. Working with a Team instead of Solo, at a Set location rather then having to juggle working 10 different sites at once.

They set me up with a phone interview for the actual manager. Again, I wasn't expecting anything. I was told to call him for the interview at noon. He ended up calling me before I had the chance to call him a few minutes early.

It turned out to be the absolute easiest interview I've ever had, in person or otherwise. The manager said he was eager to get me hired back on since I knew the environment and company already. I learned that I didn't burn any bridges when I left... which is a good thing. He made it sound like the interview itself was just a formality and he would have hired directly rather then go through a subcontractor if he could.

An hour later I got a call from the sub contractor with the offer. The pay rate is decent (which is a rarity for this type of "last ditch" style subcontractor) in the sub-contract period and the manager made it clear that he was looking to fill a Full Time Perm position, not the "Maybe" I got from the opportunity I took to get away from a bad situation.

The company I worked for and left a little over a year ago is not managed locally and the nearest office is in Chicago... so they tend to use subcontractors to hire on their employees who don't have an office in their state. Make sense. Though last time I worked through a local recruiting firm and it was a lot less... Frustrating. I did not have to ask the recruiter to repeat themselves (again because the call was coming from inside the US) and if they had issues with my paperwork I could walk it into the office if I had to. This time... I won't have that luxury.

The most ironic thing to this is that my current local recruiter, or atleast someone from the same consulting company called me AFTER I had already signed a right to represent for the other company about the same Job. It makes me feel bad because I much rather would have given them the contract and it would have been a lot easier to work with. In the end, if it goes full time it doesn't really matter... but... Just Timing. If I had waited one business day later I could have been working with someone from a company I had worked with in the past as the subcontractor rather then taking a stab in the dark with an unknown. Atleast said unknown got me a decent pay rate...

So in the end, it means the inspiration I had for a Kickstarter may still happen, but its going to be most likely postponed for awhile till stuff settles back into place. And it may be a year or so even then till I shake off some other obligations now that my Free time will be greatly restricted again. I still feel a FT job takes a lot out of you even if its one you enjoy. Why can't you make a living wage on 25 hours a week? :/

The up side is even the contract rate is back to almost the same as what I was making here as a FT employee at the other assignment from this company. Which is pretty good. It also means its enough of an income that in the short-mid term I can effectively start to chip away at credit cards, and in the long term is an actual living wage where I could sustain myself independently. Even if the job goes well and does go back to FT, I'm not moving out till both credit cards are paid in full and I only have my regular monthly payments (Car Loan, Cell Phone and Insurance) left.

It also means I'll be able to for sure and attend conventions again including  furrymigration once paychecks start coming in. I hope this means I can get to Megaplex this summer as long as I can get the time off for it. (I can afford it at least!)

I haven't been given a start date yet. I have a background check to go through (Again) since the end-client works with Government Contracts. I know the hiring manager said he wanted someone in place by the 11th of May and the Subcontractor is trying to get me to start Monday. In all reality though it will most likely fall somewhere inbetween those two dates.