I am hoping it will make our evenings a little nicer together
It's just a tough start right now.
Marilyn, yes he was having to travel a lot. When he was moved into my department he was told he would be a drafter and that's it. That didn't last very long though. Right before he handed in his resignation, he was asked to go out of town on another job for a couple of weeks and he had to start training for it the next day. He refused saying he has tickets for an event and he needed to be around to lay flooring with everyone coming into town to help over that weekend. He was told "We will reimburse you for the ticket, and you need to decide what's more important.. laying some floor or keeping your job" The tickets are for something he's going to with me and each ticket cost over $100... who cares if they reimburse him, we both want to go, and I'm not going to go alone! Everything just happens so last-minute here too. Not everyone can just drop their lives. Work is important, but life is important too. They really just walked all over him here!
So I'm really glad he got another opportunity. I think for now I'm going to stick with the job here because without me they won't get anything done. A year ago I did tell my manager I wanted to do design work and he said absolutely! He would get me started on it right away! It hasn't happened. Scott mentioned to our supervisor that he was going to this other job to do design and she said to him "That's good, because you'll never get to do that here"
I also applied at the company where he got his job. I was sure I'd be a shoe-in because they were looking for a minimum 4 years experience with the program we use, and I have 3 years plus two courses I've taken. Scott has less than one year, no courses or training, and he got an interview right away. Instead of a phone call, I got an email saying thanks for my interest, but they are going with other candidates instead. Sometimes I wish I was in a career that was more accepting of females in the workplace.