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9/18/08 - Albuquerque, NM Scott goes to work at a "real" job |
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Their accounts have lost significant value, their infrastructure crumbling... Will the government come in and save them? If only we were talking about huge insurance companies or investment banks the answer might be yes, but as you can probably guess this little story is not about those storied financial institutions about which you've heard so much. No, this sad tale is about the namesake of this website... namely, Scott. Nearly four years after ditching their employment back in San Francisco, the money has finally run out. The remodel and the trip to Africa pushed us over the edge, and Scott has decided to dust off his MBA and see if he can't put it to work (after all, there are still business school loans to pay, too!). Although we had been warned by several people that our 'resume gap' (please see scottandcaroline.com for details on said gap) would make it extremely difficult, if not impossible for us to get so much as a job cleaning port-a-potties at the State Fair, it turned out that apparently people don't seem to care that much. A week or two after applying for a few jobs, Scott was hired as a Financial Analyst (aaaahhh, the good ole days) at the University of New Mexico Hospital here in Albuquerque. Will it be easy to head back to the 8 to 5? Hardly. I mean, two weeks of vacation per year? You've gotta be kidding. But the paychecks have started rolling in and we'll start settling into some normalcy for a while. Hopefully not too normal. Some of you might be asking yourselves, "what about that home staging business...you know, what's it called...oh yeah! The Alluring Home. Right, what happened to that whole deal?" Well, it's still lumbering along. While we really haven't actively sought business since last January or so due to our preoccupation with moving into and remodeling our house and continuing to travel whenever we could, the calls still trickle in and we do a little home staging here and there. But to really pay the bills it would have to be scaled up tremendously, considering the prices that homesellers here in Albuquerque seem willing to pay. That kind of volume doesn't give much in the way of free time, and in fact would probably mean cash outflow - not something we feel ready to commit to at this point. So for now it's back to the spreadsheets,
databases, budgets and forecasts that Scott left back in October
of 2004 - only for the medical business instead of ice cream (if
you're thinking that hospitals don't seem as fun as ice cream
companies, you're..... right!). Stay tuned. |
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