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If you haven’t read the earlier chapters in my story then go to the trails page and select the trail called ‘My Path’. You can start at the beginning that way.
A New Job Brings Changes
The handwriting was on the wall. The new career ideas were not working. Bills were not getting paid. If our life was to continue undisrupted by a dramatic shift in lifestyle, I needed to find a job. One of lifes lessons is that desperation will sometimes find solutions which appear miraculous. A job appeared which paid well; where my age was not an issue and my boss would be an acquaintance from an industry group. There was only one negative. The job was in Sacramento, 400 miles from my beach community home in Southern California.
Road Warrior Surrender
Initially, I commuted, staying in a hotel room during the week and driving home on Friday nights. I became a road warrior, thinking nothing of the seven hour commute. I considered flying but decided that the expense plus the need for a third car pushed that idea out of mind. Initially I swore that I would never move to Sacramento. Over time, the notion that we could exchange our run down but pricy Socal house for a new, up to date one in Sacramento developed and my wife agreed to move her photography business from the community where our kids grew up and she was very connected to Sacramento where she would have to start all over. After two years of commuting between Sacramento and Socal, our new house is finished and my wife and younger son join me in Sacramento.
Good Move Financially
This was a good decision financially because in Socal we were house poor. In ocean-deprived Sacramento we had a new house and much more reasonable housing costs. My wife was able to rebuild her business in a new community and was happy with a new house and rainy winters. There were quite a number of pluses from the new job and the move. But what about the job itself? What about personal growth and professional development? That is the next chapter.
