Bassetluv wrote:
aw Peg, I love looking at your bunny photos.
And I have to say, Charlie is adorable! What a cutie.
Also have to laugh because, keeping with tradition of things seeming to overlap in our lives (sort of) I read the post that your son got a new job - BIG congrats on that!!! - and that he was apartment searching. My son is also now looking for an apartment .... well, still looking; I see your son got a place
... Unfortunately for my son, his circumstances are a bit different. He recently broke up with his gf and is moving out of their shared apt. And it's been tough; prices in TO are high, it's probably going to cost him around $1200+ a month for a tiny one-bedroom in a not-so-nice area of the city. However, it is funny that my son and your son were kind of mirroring one another like that...just for different reasons.
btw, what sort of job does your son have? Is he going to be a computer techie?
It always amazes me how often our lives overlap in various ways and at various times - whether its getting a puppy at the same time - to other things that we've experienced.
Eric has worked at McCoy's Lumber for a little over 3 years. He started out as a cashier.....and eventually wound up as the administrative person.....basically he handled the cash deposits, working on getting bad checks paid, and all sorts of paperwork type stuff.
As he told me when he was down over Father's Day - he was content where he was at - he finally had a group of friends that he felt comfortable with and he felt he'd mastered his job to the point where he was good at it and his boss was pleased. He felt at times like he was in a dead-end job in a dead-end town....but that he was content where he was at until he felt like God wanted him to move.
We also talked about how he'd put in his application for the help desk position at the corporate office. He'd done that a few weeks ago because his manager, Mike, was encouraging him to move to corporate if a job opened up and try to work a career path from there since Eric had no interest in becoming a store manager or entering management training. When he was down here - he'd not heard from them about his application.
Well - fast forward that two weeks - they called him right after Father's Day to do the interview and it lasted 90 minutes. The last half hour or so was spent chatting about Alaska and Maryland as Marcus, his future boss, learned that they'd both been in Alaska and Maryland around the same times!
Then he got a call asking him to come up to San Marcos for an interview - they would pay his mileage and put him up overnight.
Needless to say - when he had the interview last Monday he was offered the job right after lunch.
He was so discouraged Monday night - it seemed like he just could NOT find an apartment anywhere and he couldn't reach Mike to ask for an additional day of vacation to continue looking. He decided to call his pastor for some advice and he was really encouraged to keep trying because this was such a good opportunity for personal and career growth that he shouldn't just give up.
He wound up reaching Mike on Tuesday and getting the extension and finding the apartment late Tuesday afternoon. The company cut him a check for his moving expenses (a bit over $1,000 after taxes were taken out) and he put down the deposit for the apartment on Wednesday morning.
He is going to be getting a 1 bedroom (to me its more like a studio apartment)
here at Englebrook. I'm a bit concerned because his apartment will be $570 per month and he only makes $11.50 per hour at his new job (he was making $9.25 before).
However, he has to do what is right for him....and this is what he wants.
As far as his new job - he will be working at the help desk where the employees call in from the stores if they have a computer problem. There are 6 people on the team and some are part-timers and others are full-time. His schedule will be flexible and he might wind up working some Saturdays. He has a 12 month commitment to the job.
One of the reasons we encouraged him to go for it is that they are getting him training to become "Dell Certified". I have no idea what that means....but I'm sure it will be good for his resume.
Eric starts on August 1st and turns 27 on August 2nd.....I wonder if they'll pick up on his birthday ahead of time and do a cake or something.
Art is going to go up to Alpine next week to help Eric pack and move.....
Guess that's about all....sorry to hear your son faces such high rent prices - OUCH! I hope he finds something.
I mentioned to Eric the possibility of getting a two bedroom and having a roommate but there was NO WAY he was going to do that.....oh well...what do moms know?