Rachel and I both cleaned out our desks today. But it's much better than it sounds.
Rachel recently accepted an offer with Netbank (which used to be RBMG) to help them write reports to the SEC and other press releases. This is a welcome change for her, because she won't have to deal with 55-hour work weeks during tax season, or traveling out of town for days at a time. She gets a decent raise out of the deal, too. Netbank's building in town is an abandoned Wal-Mart renovated to be a cubicle farm. Rachel says she's just tall enough to see over the cubicle walls to see the grid as far as the eye can see.
I am accepting an offer to go over to the new Diesel Systems North America Division of Siemens VDO Automotive Corporation (SVAC). This is is basically a spin-off company made up of a significant portion of the R&D group of Siemens Diesel System Technology, a joint venture of SVAC and International Truck and Engine Corporation (ITEC). I moving from what has grown to be a fairly large factory employing about 500 people, to a smaller R&D facility employing a few dozen. This will be a return to the old days for me, as when I was a drafter at SDST when it was still in its temporary facility and only a few dozen people worked there.
There's all sorts of funny converging circumstances with this. Before the change, Rachel had a monthly paycheck and I had a biweekly paycheck, and now it has switched. In my old plant, I could wear jeans every once in a while, and Rachel couldn't, and now it has switched. Our respective commutes will both be about five minutes shorter.
On balance, it's all good. We have each been worrying and praying about these things for a little less than two years now, and God has been better to us than we deserve.
