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I'll Always be a FIB at Heart

CalvinAndHoboCalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
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So I have some big news. After a year or so of feeling like Charlie Brown kicking the football, one of the companies that gave me an interview and then said "You sound like a great fit, we'll have someone get back to you shortly with our decision" actually went through with it and hired me. I didn't want to say anything about it, because I had heard that many different times before, but I filled out the paperwork early this morning to make it official. I just gave my two weeks notice today, and I'll be moving to Dubuque, Iowa on the weekend of the 26th-27th. 

I got a job as an insurance agent. I was complaining about my job hunt to my mom, and she told me that Dubuque has a 2% unemployment rate, and is desperately in need of employees. I rolled my eyes and applied to a few of the companies out there just to appease her, and it ended up working. 

I'll see all of you FIBS and cheese-heads on Sunday, which works out well as a little going away herf. I'll probably be on a major buying freeze until I get settled in and have steady income with some rainy day savings, but I've built up more than enough of a collection to get through it, partially thanks to everyone here.

I'm still hoping to go to the major herfs that are held throughout the year, but I can't commit to anything as of now until I find out what my schedule will be like, or how vacation is going to work in a commission based job. 

It's certainly been an adventure living here and biking all over the city in all kinds of weather. I can't say I'm going to miss that part, but I'm sure there are some things about Chicago that I definitely will miss, such as the people. I think I'm going to be very good at this new job though. It's also going to be a way to gain really valuable experience that is going to look so much better on my resume than "riding a bike". I'm shocked that I got hired honestly.

It's been an unbelievable journey for me these past 3 years. Going from getting thrown out of the house with just a few bags of stuff, to struggling to feed myself, to holding a steady job and supporting myself without assistance from anyone else, to now becoming a full blown professional. It's been making me more than a little emotional today. Time to smoke this Davidoff 50th from @IndustMech after dinner to celebrate. 


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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 30,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great news, Calvin, too bad you have to move, but it sounds like a great opportunity.  We can always hang out on the vHerf.
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  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,720 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations Calvin!
    I have faith that you will succeed in any endeavor you attempt.
    Hopefully this is just a door to bigger and better things. Good Luck!
    Friends don't let good friends smoke cheap cigars.
  • silvermousesilvermouse Posts: 23,242 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Way to go, Calvin

    Changing sucks and is dreaful fills you full of fear But ya gotta start somewhere or be destined to dwell linger in badness for all time

    Love thy neighbor

  • deadmandeadman Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations Calvin. 
  • genareddoggenareddog Posts: 4,414 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations Calvin. You’re going to do great! Make sure you send me your new address for our Christmas card list
  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The real question is, do we have to stop calling him fvcking Calvin now?

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Sleddog46Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Best of luck to you!!!!!!
    You can't dispel Ignorance if you retain Arrogance!
  • TNBigfoot68TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey buddy that is awesome news. You will knock it out of the park.  Congrats 
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • CalvinAndHoboCalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
    peter4jc said:
    The real question is, do we have to stop calling him fvcking Calvin now?

    Absolutely not. 
  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,871 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Awesome Calvin, good luck
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 9,124 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That’s awesome brother. I think that’s going to be a great fit!
  • StubbleStubble Posts: 10,101 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats!!!!
    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • CharlieHeisCharlieHeis Posts: 8,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Great news. Congrats Calvin. 
  • NorCalR1NorCalR1 Posts: 4,200 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats Calvin and good luck with the new job! 

    If you want to bomb me send it to Tony @0patience :D
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  • skydiverDskydiverD Posts: 2,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats Calvin!  I'm totally jealous.  I cannot wait to move out of IL.
    How do you like my profile pic Taborski?   @matkn293          
  • TBonzTBonz Posts: 554 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats!  
  • Significant3Significant3 Posts: 2,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That’s awesome Calvin. Remember what I said about being in sales. I think you’ll do great. Congratulations.
  • ShawnOLShawnOL Posts: 12,661 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats on the new job and move.  Hope all goes great for you.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 17,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What kind of insurance?

    I wanna be your first customer, please.
    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • avengethisavengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Awesome news @CalvinAndHobo!!  I hope it works out well for you and "buying freeze" means we need your address to keep you well stocked!
    Team O'Donnell FTW!

    "I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
  • CalvinAndHoboCalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
    peter4jc said:
    What kind of insurance?

    I wanna be your first customer, please.
    Supplemental health insurance, but sadly I’ll only be licensed in Iowa so you’d have to move first. 
  • CalvinAndHoboCalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭✭✭
    avengethis said:
    Awesome news @CalvinAndHobo!!  I hope it works out well for you and "buying freeze" means we need your address to keep you well stocked!
    If I smoke a cigar a day I’m going to be all set for more than a year, I’ll be just fine. 
  • webmostwebmost Posts: 7,713 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They say you only live once. This is bull. If you do it right, you get to live many lives over the span of one.
    “It has been a source of great pain to me to have met with so many among [my] opponents who had not the liberality to distinguish between political and social opposition; who transferred at once to the person, the hatred they bore to his political opinions.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)
  • Sleddog46Sleddog46 Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭✭✭
    No, you only die once, everyday you're alive is special.
    You can't dispel Ignorance if you retain Arrogance!
  • YaksterYakster Posts: 30,996 ✭✭✭✭✭

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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 11,574 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congratulations Calvin! Great news! 

  • CharlieHeisCharlieHeis Posts: 8,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not sure if you were aware of this but Patrick used to work in sales. Maybe he can give you some pointers.
  • TruDogTruDog Posts: 8,352 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Congrats and Best of luck CaL-BrO.
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