Remember Dan's job interview in my last post? Well, he was called back to meet with the president on Friday, then called on Saturday to talk about a job offer. He met again with the president yesterday, and started work at 9 am today! What a whirlwind. Here's the story:
Dan responded to a craigslist job posting for a delivery driver. It wasn't going to be a big-rig, using his Class A license, but it was a driving job that could get him started. When the president called him on Saturday, it was to say "Hey, I hope you don't have your heart set on driving, because I'd like to find another way for you to join this team." The idea is that the company needs some new direction, some new hands-on tactics, and Dan has corporate experience in management. He's been hired based on a) his personality b) his experience at West Marine, and c) a combination of a) and b): the president bought a boat from Dan last year and remembered what a great job Dan did running his store. This is so Southwest Air...hire for personality, train for skills. They need help with operations, organization, and...operations, organization...He started today, learning just about everything, from the ground up. It sounded like that would mean filing and finding out where stuff goes...or where it ought to go.
It's really exciting. This guy owns another big company here, is a successful business leader in our community, and he basically hand-picked Dan for a position that didn't exist...he's making a job FOR Dan. How cool is that?
So, yeah...Dan won't be driving. At first, I thought, "Damnit! There goes $5k down the drain!!" But really, if Dan hadn't gone to trucking school, he wouldn't have applied for the delivery job, and wouldn't have this opportunity.
Funny the paths that crop up in life, eh?
So, life is good and getting better.
Except...Vi has an ear infection and a Bleb. Yes, a Bleb. I know, it sounds fake, but I swear that's what her pediatrician called it. He even let me look in the lightey-uppy ear-lookey thingy. It looks like bubble wrap - a pus-filled bubble has formed over her ear drum. Poor goose. She's napping now, and will once again be on anti-biotics. Did I say poor goose, yet? Poor goose.
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BIG HURRAY for Dan's new job! It sounds great. What an amazing coincidence, or set of coincidences.
Speaking of coincidences, this is so funny. Daniel (my Daniel, Charlottesville Dan, however you want to call him) just played BLEB as a Wordscraper word yesterday. I was like, BLEB?! That can't be a word! But I looked it up and found out the meaning. It sounds like the sound you make as you're submerging your head in a deep bath tub. Bleb. bleb. bleb.
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