Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for January 05, 2020

You go where the job is.

Maybe it’s because he wanted you to move where the better money was?

Amanda, have you been reading Bad Machinery?

And who’s this Jack Hughes fella, anyway?

hopefully you settled down

:) My parents moved 7 times in 6 years at the beginning of their marriage, according to my mother. The first of the 7 was moving in together in my father’s town; the second was to a nearby state because the rules on becoming a CPA were supposedly easier; the third, he decided to switch careers and go back to grad school back in his town…. You get the picture, I’m sure!

My parents moved when I was a kid

Took me three weeks to find them.

What I said yesterday … :op

The longest we stayed in one place was 18 years…..my favorite house ever!

That’s what you get for living in NoDak. Jobs are few and far between and you have to move to them. Until trials can be conducted via Skype.

Talk to a military brat, it’ll give you perspective.

For example:

I was born in Connecticut, dad was transferred and we moved when I was 6 weeks old. No set address until I was 2, in South Carolina. Another transfer and we moved to Florida when I was 6. Dad retired (medical), and we moved to South Carolina when I was 9, then to another town 60 miles away when I was 10. Dad left that teaching job due to politics (small town politics, no fun), and we moved back to Florida when I was 13. We moved to 3 different towns in Florida before Dad found another teaching job when I was 16, and we stayed there until Dad died when I was 19 and going to tech school.

I’m willing to bet you won’t be doing anything like that, so cherish Dan and the stability he is bringing!

Yes Dan everything will always be your fault. I realized it long ago and that has served me well for the last 43 years.