After being firmly planted in NC for the last 20+ years, and being unemployed for the last 7 months now, I'm thinking it maybe a time for a change of scenery.

My old company has been paying me now and then to do some gigs for them as needed, and well they needed me to visit one of their customers in Bismarck. Well he has a job I think I'd be a really good fit for. So I took the plunge and applied for it today.

The thought of it is is both scary and exciting at the same time. Some issues I have to contend with:

1) 5 year old daughter... she starts kindergarten this fall...I'd rather move her sooner rather than later. Anyone have an idea how good the schools are in the area?
2) Wife likes to go fishing...part of her deal is that she has to live on the water... We've had a house on the coast of NC and recently are on a pretty nice lake. She has a job that she works remotely, so her location doesn't matter.

I ended up driving up in to the Mandan area above I-94 and found a house on the river that would fit the bill.

I guess all is moot if the job doesn't come through...bah...

 

My wife went to school about 20 miles north of Bismarck.

Her best recollection is that the schools were pretty decent in the area, but that you might have better luck on Bismarck side or even getting out of town a bit upstream.

Not bad folks in the area at all in ND. Plenty of options for jobs since they found out they can drill for oil in their state...

Sort of an oil boom going on in the region.


Stop in and say hi on the way up! I live pretty much on the route if you are coming up I-29.

I can turn you onto some elevator repair guys that love walleye fishing on the river in that area. Should be no problem getting you onto some hunting if you are into that as well.

Oh, and the ND badlands area is some good wheeling they say too.

My inlaws moved up to ND about 30 years ago. They love it. Never going to get them out of there if that is any indication.

Winter cold keeps the rif raff out they say. HAHA!

Good luck with it! What sort of work do you do? Maybe I can help network a bit.

 

I'm originally from Ohio and wife is from Roanoke, VA... so know snow and not too worried about that.

I'm in computers... mainly the storage aspect of it and then the attachment to the high end servers and all the aspects of it.

 

Storage is big right now expecially with EMC and Compellent in the mid-west. I would think my company is looking for storage engineers.

aos5.com

 

I've worked with EMC gear, but not Compellent, I looked at your company's website and didn't see anything that would fit.

Thanks for the point!

 

Your welcome. Good Luck.

 

Compared to NC, it's cold as a witch's tit in a steel bra up there.

 

Wow, sounds like you've had some great first-hand experience with steel bras and witch's tits...?