Will not be moving to Cedar Rapids

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Got the word today. No offer after the interview.
I choked some simple stuff that I know. Potential employers don't like that when the salary target is my range.
Another recruiter submitted my resume to a company in San Jose. But I'd tend to view that as a free trip to California with my wife. Even if they paid me $180K, just rent would take over 35% of take home pay. >100% of any raise would be consumed by the high cost of everything there plus the insane taxes.

I did send a message to there "anti-gun" office asking if I'd be allowed to bring my guns into the state if I got rid of my standard mags and bought low capacity mags. Also mentioned that none of them are on their approved roster because they are all contemporary pistols :D
My wife likes the temperature range in San Jose. But there is nothing else to like about California.
 
My wife likes the temperature range in San Jose. But there is nothing else to like about California.

Northern Cali is beautiful (minus San Fran).

Sorry no job offer on teh CR, something will come up soon and you'll not be doing the month-long trips to China soon brother.
Stay positive, keep busting your butt.
 
Northern Cali is beautiful (minus San Fran).

Sorry no job offer on teh CR, something will come up soon and you'll not be doing the month-long trips to China soon brother.
Stay positive, keep busting your butt.
The path I am supposed to be on is well be revealed. If that path man's continued China trips, I'll deal with it.

Just got a call from the CA forearms bureau. I can bring all my pistols minus the standard magazines.
Granted there is about zero chance is nice there. But good to know.
Bad thing? .CA has an unconstitutional firearms registry.

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Keep your chin up if it's meant to be it will happen.
 
What kind of work are you in? IT?

San Jose is ok, wouldnt want to live there. Spent 2 months there working with HDS for a deployment project. If you go, check out the Winchester House in Santa Clara. There was a badarse diner next door to it called Flames..if been rebuilt after the fire they had (seriously) go...they were amazing.

Good luck on the interview!
 
Having travelled to CR many times for my current job, including several January trips, I can say that this is probably a Good Thing.

If your tolerance for corn, weeks of sub zero temps, nothing to do or see once you've visited the Amana Colonies, and flat featureless landscape is low, then things worked out great for you!

If you're a technical person and don't want to work for Deere, Rockwell, or Schneider Electric, you're probably limited in your job mobility there too.
 
When I make mistakes I normally wouldn't make, I assume there are larger forces at play. Just got to stay patient and keep a positive spirit, the story is not over.
 
Sorry the Iowa interview didn't turn into a job. Consider it a rehearsal!

Hope you find something suitable locally, or at least in a free State.
 
Had a phone call with the hiring manager in San Jose. Dude is Chinese. Thick accent. Despite asking him to repeat questions a few times he told the recruiter that he liked me. So I may be flying out for an interview. I would view it as a paid mini vacation.
I did some simple math. Even if they offered me$180K, rent for a 2BR 1000 sqf apartment would consume around 35 to 40% of take home unless I chose a pace an hour away in a high crime neighbor barrio.
Given that they would not even come close to $180K, accepting a job in California would mean spending most of my income on housing and food, and filing for bankruptcy inside a year. :D
So this is mostly an exercise in appeasing the recruiter and honing my rusty interview skills.
 
Had a phone call with the hiring manager in San Jose. Dude is Chinese. Thick accent. Despite asking him to repeat questions a few times he told the recruiter that he liked me. So I may be flying out for an interview. I would view it as a paid mini vacation.
I did some simple math. Even if they offered me$180K, rent for a 2BR 1000 sqf apartment would consume around 35 to 40% of take home unless I chose a pace an hour away in a high crime neighbor barrio.
Given that they would not even come close to $180K, accepting a job in California would mean spending most of my
income on housing and food, and filing for bankruptcy inside a year. :D
So this is mostly an exercise in appeasing the recruiter and honing my rusty interview skills.

When I lived in the Bay Area most of the average tech workers that had home and families lived an easy hour or two commute from work. I had neighbors that pretty much did 1.5 hours on a good day. But our town had $250k-$$400k homes at the time instead of $1M homes. Maybe you could do telecommuting 3-4 days a week. It is CA and Silicon Valley so ask for anything and everything. Worst case you say no and keep the status quo.
 
Not in IT.
I'm in a specific niche within RFIC design. In particular, my area is switch design.
If I could make the same salary switch careers I would.
Too many of the companies out there now expect every engineer to be a device physicist too.
I'm more of a "tool box" guy. I don't need to know why a tool work, just that it works and knowing what tool is needed for a given challenge.

Flights booked. Leave Thursday, interview Friday, fly back Saturday. Not time at all in the trip to see anything in the area.
I have zero interest in living a 2 hour drive for work.
Longest commute was from Jamaica Plain, Boston, to Lowell. 35 miles, to me 55 minutes.

Added note:
One of the options on the slow burner at the moment is still Durham. I wouldn't mind doing that long commute until my daughter finishes undergrad. A new YMCA in Cary opening not far from that office so I'd still be able to swim before work. [emoji38]


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I'm sitting in the San Jose airport waiting for my flight home by way of ATL.
Interview went okay, I guess. The PhD's from Taiwan did what they always do. Prove they are the smartest one in the room and do what they can to make the person interviewing feel dumb.
The hiring manager, who is Chinese, in the wrap up, made it clear he isn't looking for another person that "knows everything."
I got the impression from his comments and questions that he had already decided to offer me the job. He focused almost entirely on selling me on San Jose.
One thing every person I met said about San Jose is what I already knew. Damn expensive.
It will be cool if I get an offer but I lied my ars off when i said I'm willing to move out there.

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Want to rid of ever moving to Ca? ( I know you said you aren't )
Read the OT @ Calguns forum. Everything you ever wanted to hate about guns, taxes, life in Ca is written there.
I'm a refuge Ca native, they can have that beautiful craphole...
 
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