So I actually got a call back Wednesday afternoon from the now 18 resumes and/or online applications I’ve sent out this week. It was from a shop that does repair work on intermodal trailers and conex boxes.
Showed up yesterday morning, nailed the welding test, with the cast on, got offered a tentative position on the condition that I pass their UA, which won’t be a problem. Start date to be given when the thumbs up gets back to them.
It’s three, eight hour days per week for 30 days. Full time after that. They hired at least one other person, and I suspect it is to see if either of us has a work ethic, and they’ll keep that person.
While I wouldn’t mind staying there full-time, I do have more than a dozen resumes out, and this position will still leave me a fair amount of time to test elsewhere and see what else is out there.
Which is what I’m doing this morning at a fabrication shop that is more art and design than engineering and structural.
The cast comes off this afternoon and I can’t wait that long. I have the tools and I have the knowledge, I just don’t have a way to get the damn pins out myself, safely.
Cross your fingers that there’ll be little to no physical therapy required afterwards.
I think if you can cross your fingers after the cast is off, that will determine if physical therapy is needed, no?