Job change!

Change always scares me!  The funny thing is that in the military you are always moving and changing.  To me, though, that's comfortable change.  You know you're going to like your job.  You know you're going to make enough money to live a good life.  It's predictable change.

When Jack got deployed last, I moved home with the kids and when he got back, we got out of active duty and he got hired by a Naval Academy grad, turned good friend (set him up and he eventually married my best childhood friend), to be a project manager for a marine construction company called Truston Technologies.  That change was scary too.  Although, I was getting to stay in my home town, I cried like a big baby about getting out of the military because I thought that was scary!  I worried Jack wouldn't like his job and I worried that the pay cut would hurt!  Then he got accepted in the the military reserves so he got the best of both worlds.  He got to see what the civilian world was like and put his master's degree to use in project management and he also got to keep flying.  It all worked out.  Doesn't it always?

After two years, Jack's been thinking of changing his career path, and over the last few months things started to fall into place.  Today, he let his boss/friend know that we are gonna go out on our own.  Jack  recently got two "part time" jobs consulting and he is hoping to do some part time work for Truston.  He is also in the reserves and will continue to do that.  Tomorrow he is meeting with a guy who owns a business that got his resume from a friend and we will see where that goes.  It seems like the phone has been ringing a lot for Jack and that is exciting... but scary!  I know that Jack is so so smart and such an asset to any company.  I know it will all work out.  It's still scary.

I think Jack's ultimate goal is to do the Navy Reserves until he retires in about 6 more years.  He would also like to be hired by a major airline and then when he is home from those trips to do part time consulting.  Even though it seems like a lot, it actually might mean more time at home.  At least, that's the hope!