Happy Holidays TO ME!

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

I am employed!  I start Tuesday!
I am doing the "same old thing" which translates into maximum dollars per hour, so that also means god-awful hours, but after tasting 4 months of unemployment, I'm not so picky.

I will be a computer operator for a company that manufactures credit/debit/insurance cards of the embossed type.
My hours will be W-Sun, 8pm-4am.

I can now afford to put the R65 back together (again...).

Woo-hoo!

[Graeme]

Congratulations! A fantastic start to the new year.  [smiley=clap.gif]

[John M]

Congratulations Rob, it must be a great relief .Happy New Year takes on special meaning (glad you managed to keep the R65 )
        Best Wishes John Muir

[montmil]

Congrats, Rob. Nice start to 2012.

Monte

[Justin B.]

Fantastic!  Glad you didn't have to switch to a completely different field like I did.  It sux starting back at the bottom...

[suecanada]

So pleased to hear this news Rob. It was hard to imagine you going without your R65 as you are one of the very originals on this forum...Think I am correct on this but no matte,r you are here to stay with a bike!!! And some $$$ for the usual suspects!

[Melena]

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Yay!  So glad to hear that Rob.  There is  hope after all.  

Happy New Year to you Rob!  [smiley=beerchug.gif]  (<--    Root Beer for you)

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Thanks everyone for your well wishes.

Now we have to work on Melena!

(and you remembered the root beer! (blush) )

[Bob_Roller]

Great news Rob !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a 14 month period of unemployment from 11/91-01/93, not a great feeling at all .

I remember telling my grandmother on my fathers side, the last time I saw her in 8/84, that I wish I had a summer off to ride my motorcycle .

Her comment was, be careful what you wish for, you may just get it and it may not be what you envisioned it to be !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[montmil]

... Her comment was, be careful what you wish for, you may just get it and it may not be what you envisioned it to be !

Or said another way–
The two greatest tragedies in life are: Never Getting what you wished for and. . .   Getting It.

Monte...  wishing for a trials bike

[nhmaf]

YAY!!!!!!!
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That is great news, Rob!

I think that this year is definitely going to be a better year than 2011 - I hope so, at least!   Yesterday morning, I watched a bald eagle circle the water (ice,really) by our beach and land in a tall pine tree in front of our house.  We've had lots of birds at our place, but NEVER a bald eagle before!    I'm taking this as a good omen for the year.

So happy for your good news - perhaps we'll see you in Missouri this year..

Mike

[Altritter]

Fantastic, Rob!!!  [smiley=bmw_smiley.gif] Yours was a great first message to read after signing onto the site for the first time in months! Best wishes!

John

[Rob Valdez 79 R65]

Thanks again everyone.
Today was orientation and the first day of sitting around.

I will actually have MY OWN desk!  And it won't be in "refrigerator heaven", either.
Every other job I have worked has taken place at the operator's work station in the computer room.
This is just in a little office with servers in a room down the hall that I will likely never see.

[nhmaf]

I'm glad that I left the dreaded raised floor, refrigerator room full of big iron decades ago... man, now I am feeling old!

Enjoy your civilized office space!!

[Barry]

Great news Rob well done !!!

10 years back I had a 2 1/2 years of relative unemployment. Well I was supposedly self employed but it hardly paid well enough to justify being called employment.  Also got a start at this exact time of year and have never looked back. Put it down to another one of lifes experiences. Not good but not all bad either.