Another job prospect

All of a sudden, in addition to the Perl coding job at NASA Goddard that I'm hoping to hear back from Any Time Now, I now have an interview Friday witn Convergys in Reston, VA.  It's a low-level NOC-monkey job, and I get the impression from talking to them that I have vastly more experience and skills than they're actually looking for, but anything that'll get us out of this moldering rathole is worth a shot.

Of course, there's a very real chance they may decide I'm overqualified.  (To my surprise, that was a concern at NASA -- that I might be overqualified.  I still haven't entirely wrapped my brain around the idea that NASA might consider me overqualified to write code to talk to their satellites and their satellite data archives.)  There's also the issue of whether we can find a place within sane commuting distance of Reston (taking into account my mobility limitations) where a family of five can live in reasonable sanity and comfort on a salary in the $40k/year range.  I'm given to understand this may be difficult, which is why I'll be researching it today.  By my calculations, that's going to end up in the $3500/month ballpark, which by the usual guidelines means (if memory serves) that we'll be considered to be able to afford around $1200/month in rent.  So now I get to see what we can find for rent for $1200/month within about a 45 minutes radius of Reston.

On the other hand, truth to be told, given the choice I'd rather live in VA than MD.  MD firearms laws have the ass-nature.

A theory

Given that the NASA job appears to have gone *poof* like so many others, I'm developing a theory that, in fact, any job I apply for will go *poof*, and that I, by way of my numerous job applications, am singlehandedly responsible for the recession.  koyote suggests that I could develop a new business model based on this theory, making money by getting people to pay me not to apply for jobs.  He might just have something there.