I knew when the day began that it was going to be a very long one. And it was....
For no reason at all, I woke up a couple of times during the night and fell back to sleep. So, when the alarm woke me at 6 am, I worried that I would need more sleep to get through the day. But I was amazed that I didn't pass out.
By the time 4:30 pm came, I was ready to fall to sleep. I was a little depressed because the headhunter that contacted me wanted someone with more recent experience. He has a problem - no one with mainframe experience is being developed in American schools. Today's young programming types are studying the client-server technologies, as this will be their best shots of doing interesting work. So, only old people like me, many of which are already retired, have the skills required by this headhunter's client - the bank I once worked for. This means, that if I want a job, I'll have to contact people I know who still work at the bank.
Once in my car and on the way home, I called up the local taco joint to order tonight's dinner and tomorrow's lunch. And when I got home, I stripped out of Marian's outfit and put on Mario's outfit, as I had a board meeting to attend. Although I won't go into any details about what we discussed, the work of our former and current managing agents came up in our discussion. And I can say that we had important comments about areas of improvement which could be made by our current managing agent.
Eventually, that meeting ended, and I called RQS. I found it hard to believe that we were on the phone for over 3 hours. Could you imagine how late we'd be talking if we were in the same place AND if I didn't have to go to work?