A new story.... or maybe the next chapter in an old one

We have after several months (Jan31 to present) of applying for work and getting nothing, decided to move one more time and this will be back to Australia. While the global crisis has taken it's toll everywhere it seems that Australia is not quite so hard hit as others including the USA.

Since our return to the USA, I have been unemployed more (12mths) than employed (9mths) and we just can't seem to get solid stable work for anything.

I will be leaving in mid-June ahead of the family and I hope to have work before I go but if not, then it will give me a couple of weeks to try and nail something down before the interruptions of family begin to occur once again. I detest that I have to leave my family behind and have them follow but if it all works out in the end for the better, then I guess a short separation could be counted as worthy.

This time we are packing up everything and getting it ready to ship to Australia. It looks at this stage like we will have about 5 to 6 pallets of stuff, which is a darn sight more than my 9 boxes I shipped over here. Though of course, now I have a family and for a family of 4 to only have 6 pallets is not too extravagant I would think. We have already offloaded much stuff to others or the Salvo's and the church too, because people are always coming in and out and before you know it, someone saw what you put out and decided they could use it.

What to say ......

It has been almost a year since my last post and things never quite worked out as we had hoped for.

Amongst other things, the global economy turned sour sparked by an over-burden in the US housing market. From there it was just a knock on effect and half the established order of things good or bad fell with it.

One of those things was the job market and along with 600,000 other folks, I lost my position at Ryan Companies where I had been on a contract for 9 months. To their credit they kept me on probably 3 months longer than they really should have, given the appearance of the economy. Finally though, cuts have to be made where necessary and I was one of those cuts.

I had hoped to make a post here of things to see and do in the QCA but nor have I got to this.... maybe I can run out for a few hours this weekend and takes some pics of the sights around here. Although I realise it won't be much by most standards nonetheless I'd like to post some pics.