I've spent the last 29 years of my life working in the Bay Area. Getting married and having kids at 22, doing what I had to do to stay in the game was what my life was all about. After my youngest entered high school and proved herself quite capable I chose to leave the central valley / bay area commuter life and move over the hill to live where I worked in the construction industry, in the Bay Area. It's been almost ten years of living, getting remarried, and working in and around the outlying town of Livermore.
The economy helped me make the decision to make a move. The high end construction / remodel industry had dwindled. For the boss man, finding work for our small 3 man construction company had gotten increasingly difficult. Being on and off and on unemployment for two of the last two and a half years had been rough. Side jobs helped, but it just confirmed one thing. That is that I was a lousy buisnessman. I just wanted to work, not find work and collect for work done. It was time to make a move.
My wife and I had bought a cabin in the foothill town of Arnold in 2007 when life was good. After the building and furnishing of the new log cabin was complete, we enjoyed living the relaxed life that is shared by all mountain dwellers for long weekends and occasional vacation weeks. I had spent a good portion of this past year trying to fnd work in the Arnold area (at least in my own mind if not in actual footsteps to buisnesses). It finally dawned on me after talking with a few other BAT locals (Bay Area Transfers) that what was required was to commit and move up here and take whatever job was available rather than finding a job and moving up here after. I was trying to find the right time and the proper way to tell (convince) my wife that moving and chasing or creating a dream was the best move for me.
I was scrolling through the Bear Valley Ski Resort web sight looking at the 'employment' page and saw a full time, year round job opening and decided this was the perfect job for me. How could they not see that I was the perfect employee for them. I was moving and taking that position. Yea, Time to move.
