Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

I used to have this job with an oil company in Houston. I worked a rotational schedule: 14 days on, 14 days off. This worked out ok for a while, and then it looked like my then-fledgling marriage wasn't going to be able to handle it. So I quit that job--which would have taken me around the world, doing the work that I want--and moved back to LA full-time to take a job that has turned out to be not what I expected.

Only thing is now I'm not married (or soon-to-be-not-married), and I'm stuck in LA with a job at a company I don't like, doing work that doesn't make me happy. It's not that the work isn't interesting or challenging, it's just not what I want to be doing. And I'm coming to realize that LA is not where I want to be living either.

So I've put out a bunch of applications for jobs in other parts of the country, and in other parts of the world. In fact, two of those applications are with the company I used to work for, in the Netherlands and in New Zealand. And both of those applications are currently "under review". Cross your fingers and toes for me!

If I get the job in NL, that will put me right where I said I wanted to be at this point in my career, though certainly not by the route I'd anticipated.