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October 27th, 2008

Linds and I have now lived in Ohio for a couple months and are both finally working. So this post will cover two things I wanted to cover: Job and Church.

Job:
Well, I have five interviews and five offers.
Job 1: A transfer with the company I had been with. Offer: $34k base salary, k, health, stock purchase plan, commish, car/cell allowance. Pros: Very familiar with products and system. Cons: Decrease in base salary, incentive tiers, and rank.
Job 2: A company that places professional IT people with Forture 200 companies in Cleveland. I call on companies, ask what their IT needs are and if it can be temporarily fixed, and place the talent. $30k base, commish, car/cell allowance, k, health, weekly payroll. Pros: Interesting sale. Cons: Money, hours, location of office.
Job 3: Small payroll company. Offer: $42k base, commish, k, health, car/cell/expense allowance. Pros: Would be one of a salesforce of 3 so if company takes off, on board early on. Very cool CEO who I could use as a mentor. Cons: Inexperience in payroll, main focus on Group Health, which will be going through some changes one way or another in January.
Job 4: Selling 401(k) plans for the #1 seller of 401(k)’s in the country. Offer: $45k base, commish, k, health, car/cell/expence allowance. Pros: have wanted to get into stocks. Two of my colleagues are top reps company wide. Easier sale cause calling existing clients. Cons: Wouldn’t license me and economy could hurt sales.
Job 5: Middle sized payroll company. Offer: $45k base, commish, k, health, car/cell/expense allowance, stock. Pros: Territory where I live, better payroll company product than job 1 and job 3, very difficult interview process that I survived. Cons: Remaining in payroll.

So, I chose job 5. I’m currently in week 3 in Cinci for training. So far, very exciting about the possibilities.

Church:
So, we’ve been in Ohio and I still haven’t chosen which church to join. All of them have the pros and cons, and I can’t decide.
When choosing a church, I want to feel comfortable there, I want to feel like I could fit in somehow if I wanted to get involved, cool architecture, decent music, interesting homilies, preferably young priest, close to home. Here are my nominees:
St. Bridgets:
Closest to home (less than a mile). Two priests, one young guy who’s meh and an old guy who’s a trip (reminds me of Bishop Dudley actually). Boring architecture. Reminds me of what I think Turtons church looked like. Music is alright, looks like they have a hippie as a guitar player.
st. john bosco: Not too far from home, about 3 miles. Only been there once. They display all the songs and readings on an overhead projector and put it on the wall. The music is way over the top and that is actually a killer for me. Even though it seems young and energetic, the music alone is too much. Reminds me of the music at Brookings, with the trap sets, etc.
st, charles:
Besides sharing a name with my hometown church, this is my favorite church. It is also pretty far away, like 5-10 miles. I love the architecture, traditional stone. Priest is only ok. Also, the biggest church. So, I love the actual church and the energy, but I don’t like how far away it is and the priests aren’t super great (not bad, just not that amazing).
Holy Family
Was the first church we went to. Don’t like the architecture. Didnt’ like anything about it and its the furthest away. This church is dead to me.

There you go. I want to dedicate myself to a church, feel free to research them if you can and give me your thoughts, I think both St. Charles and St. Bridget are online.
(I keep thinking we went to another once, but if I did it clearly didn’t make an impression on me.

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