Sunday, October 08, 2006

Move status

Moving to Long Island, NY now looks pretty certain. The CEO is happy with the idea and is willing to make it happen. Cost of living is going to go up by about 30% across the board, which is the downside of the move. OTOH, if I can talk them into a 15-20% raise to cover the increased expenses, I'll come out reasonably even without having to live hand-to-mouth.

So I ran the numbers today, looked at prices for housing again, and sent him the final salary goal that I'm looking for. I should know by the end of October where things stand so that I can go looking for apartments during the first week in November (or the last week of October).

Of course, that's not the only thing eating up all my free time lately. Still working my 50+ hours per week managing the servers, setting up new systems, making disaster recovery plans, and moving our systems slowly to a more failure-tolerant setup. Plus I'm still plowing through my 2 foot stack of technical books on the desk (dealing with Linux server configuration, security, Apache, Java, Postfix, PostgreSQL, etc.).

Labels: 2006

posted by Wuphon's at 7:46 PM