Originally Posted By: aquariuscsm
Originally Posted By: 5AcresAndAFool
Its a smaller company in a smaller city so the only people that seem to get hired under the current regime are friends and family of people there who are department heads, or employees that matter.
This is why I absolutely HATE small towns. Everyone is related,or they're all friends,or their kids play together,blah blah blah. I can't stand cliquish environments like that. They're all little booty buddies. They'll go to lunch together,go party together with the boss,etc. If you notice,they can all get away with murder,while any "outsider" is expected to go strictly by the book. I've been in environments like that and it's repulsive.
We moved here because I always wanted land and its cheap here. I have learned over the last 15 years that you get what you pay for. The county in which we live has a lackluster police force, terrible schools, and is in the midst of one heck of an opioid epidemic among other things.
I will say I work with some good people, just not the guy I spend my whole day with most of the time. It wears on you after a while. My immediate boss is great, and he is in a similar situation as me.
There is no way I can send my daughter or future children to the local public school, and it has turned out that she is gifted and that compounds the problem. My wife and I are both debating homeschooling which I was initially for and she wasn't. Now she is 90 percent for homeschooling and I want to send my daughter to a school for the gifted. This would entail a long drive everyday which I do not want to subject her to, or moving to some very specific areas which makes the job search even harder.
We have been basically homeschooling her since she was a baby, even if we didn't know it at the time if that makes sense. My wife is very committed to teaching her as am I. If my child continues on to have an accelerated rate of learning in the future she is going to need people a heck of a lot smarter than my wife and I to teach her.
This has compounded the whole job search problem and really limits my options. It is looking like we are going to home-school her for the meantime. There is a local home-school co-op but I am concerned the local small town mentality ruins that as well, or it may be people fed up with the terrible local school system and the terrible leadership there. My fears may be unfounded.
Having children really changes your perspective. It has really forced me to mature on many different levels. I thought I was mature...