Need some divine help on the job front

You’ve probably looked, but it never hurts to pull your current employment agreement, ethics policy, and anything else you signed and make sure that the positions you’re interviewing for don’t violate any non compete language that you aren’t aware of.
Non- compete clauses are not valid in my field in the US. They would actually prevent me from being employed anywhere. As such they are not valid.
I can't work in China for a China based company. That is all. But even the thre non compete area never enforced. Everyone leaves a job "to help with a family business." But they are actually going to the competition.


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Also have a phone interview with the engineering manager for Apopka Florida next Tuesday.
He is someone I knew at my previous employer when he worked in Greensboro.
Things are starting up pop.
Apopka is just under 2 hours from when my son lives in Florida.

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And it seems to be coming.
This trip has been a turning point. My wife and I really opened up about how much damage the travel has done to us.
I did not realize how much I had shut down to avoid dealing with the anger over how my current employer treats me and the travel demands imposed. (Some of y'all know the expletive laden threads from before.)
This year, since February I had not been home long enough to decompress and get all the way home again mentally. I had not realized how firmly the shut down mode stayed when I got home.
That thread about my wife hiking was part of the healing again. I could hear a smile in her voice in the video clips she narrated.

Anyway, I have applied for a few jobs that fit my skill set.
Then out of the blue, a former manager at a previous employer in G'boro sent a message that she had an opening she wanted to talk to me about. She just happens to be the best manager I have had in my career. And my wife likes her too.
So when she says she has an opening and she calls me, she believes I'd be a fit. And she knows my level. So I won't get a low ball offer if I pass the interview with her staff.
This is the most positive thing that has happened on the job front since I started my current job.
I am hoping that my current boss finds out which story is true. The I am irrelevant or that I am indispensable.
I just pray that I do not choke and get super nervous during the interview. On the plus side, I'll be able to wear my "thin" suit again.
I also pray that whatever the outcome I have the strength to accept it as what I need right at this point in time regardless what I may think I need.

Keep praying, the Lord knows your heart and needs.
 
Went well.
Last candidate interview is January 28 due to Kellie's travel schedule.
That candidate is chinese and has experience in the specific area.
But that is no guarantee. Personality, connection with the team, an obvious desire to learn are all more important to the team than direct experience if the guy acts like a know it all.

Phone interview tomorrow with another group.

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Did you tell them about Jade? That mightve helped
 
Darn.
Company just went into a hiring freeze. No telling how long it will last.
That means I might still have to do another China trip unless I can convince them that it is too risky right now.
State department travel warning is the biggy.
 
I wouldn’t travel to China now for anything!
Going to do my best to argue against any travel to China. They need to stop being micromanagers. There really is no need for me to travel. It is only their incorrect perception and unwillingness to listen that makes them demand such unreasonable travel. Either that or they get government grants that depend on showing the presence of an American.
 
Pardon my ignorance, what's the deal with traveling to China right now (besides the obvious "I dont want to go, be away from my wife/family" stuff)?
 
Also, Fish - head up duder, keep searching
 
Pardon my ignorance, what's the deal with traveling to China right now (besides the obvious "I dont want to go, be away from my wife/family" stuff)?
Only an issue if the traveler desires a high certainty of the ability to exit China and return home.
 
Only an issue if the traveler desires a high certainty of the ability to exit China and return home.
Have things changed and it's harder now?
What happened?
 
Pardon my ignorance, what's the deal with traveling to China right now (besides the obvious "I dont want to go, be away from my wife/family" stuff)?
Simple. They don't care about my family. And just threaten to fire me.
Until I have a new job, I have to put up with the crap. Obamacare killed my savings.
I can try to push back.
I have cards to play still.

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Have things changed and it's harder now?
What happened?
China has said it will block the exit of Americans if it feels like it. Mostly will apply to Chinese born American citizens. China recognizes them as Chinese first, not American.

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Simple. They don't care about my family. And just threaten to fire me.
Until I have a new job, I have to put up with the crap. Obamacare killed my savings.
I can try to push back.
I have cards to play still.

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Yeah, well, good luck duder
 
I don't know how you do all that travel. I certainly could not... props to you and prayers you get something closer to home, and a free country.
 
Well good luck

When is next scheduled China trip?
 
Haven't heard anything yet. That is actually good. I should have heard by now of it was a negative. So I am holding out hope still.

On the China front. The Big Boss wants another nearly 2 month trip from March 1 to April 20. I told him that I can not do any trip more than 30 days ever again. Too great a hardship on my family and me. We'll see what he says to that.
I also added a note "It is far better to make use of this new fangled thing call the internet to communicate and stay in sync." We'll see how that goes over.
Hopefully I get to tell him I'm never coming again.
 
I was wondering, just yesterday, how come we haven’t seen one of those “I’m off to China again” posts recently. Good luck with it!!!!
 
On the plus side, HR is checking with the hiring manager on another job I applied for.
That application still shows as active and the post is still listed on the careers page.

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Jesus, that was a quick 180 in less than 20 minutes.
 
Jesus, that was a quick 180 in less than 20 minutes.
Not entirely. Application is still in for another position. But I haven't been contacted yet regarding interviewing. So my friend contacted HR to follow up. So still trying to be hopeful.
More fingers crossed.
I had been contacted by the Florida design center in Apopka. But they had a hiring freeze due to closing on department there.
Every time I travel to China I hope it is my last trip.
 
Not entirely.

No, not entirely. But within 20 minutes it was 'actually good' to 'job went to another'

hoping you find something that suits you and your family better!
 
No, not entirely. But within 20 minutes it was 'actually good' to 'job went to another'

hoping you find something that suits you and your family better!
Yes. that was about the real time it took me from the time I found out I did not get the job I interviewed for and then to check the status of the other application and find it was still active, then ask my friend if they could check internally for me.
 
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