A month?

Seriously, has it really been a month since I last posted? I guess it has. I have fallen in love with my new job, again. Unfortunately it means being away from the family for a while. After talking to my wife it looks like it may be a long while. She is not confident that the funding for the contracts I work on will continue, and she would hate to move our family here only to find out in a matter of months that both of us would be unemployed. I tend to look at things in a more positive light... that is that God moved us here, he will allow us to stay here.

I have to be honest though. She does have a point. Turns out that a lot of the contracts I work on are funded through earmarks. Public enemy number one for the newly elected Conservative Congress. The Conservative philosophy really appeals to me, and I have to define myself as a Conservative. It is really funny/ ironic that my lively hood depends on government spending. I see no conflict though as defense is a legitimately defined and enumerated power in the Constitution, whereas the Department of Education is not. Perhaps that is why I never was too enthused about being a teacher. Working in the Defense industry for government contractors I don't feel that I am being contradictory.

Unfortunately pursuing the career I love has taken me away from the people I love. In order to support the people I love I have to be away from them. It really is a tough catch 22. I could go back to Colorado Springs and hope that something falls out of the sky the way that On Target Enterprises did when I was at WalMart. That is the thing though. I do not have WalMart to keep my family fed, and I can not work there again for at least two more years. That means that I may not see my family again for two more years.

Thank you all for your prayers during this time. Please keep them coming.

Prayers,

Pisio