It has been quite a few months since I posted last and there has been plenty going on. The lask of updates was partly due to crazy work load and partly due to a gag order on blogging about the fact that I have to return to Ireland by March. Until all the appropriate people knew that we were going home, we didn’t want them to find out via a blog.
In any case, it is official – Jen and I are heading back to the Emerald Isle by March 1st 2009 at the latest. Sad news, but there is nothing to be done about it – apparently I am not educated enough to get a green card and so off I go. On the bright side, I do get to keep my job – I just have to do it from 3,000 miles away.
We’ll be celebrating our last Thanksgiving with Scott and Lori in Scott’s place tomorrow (thanks for the invite Scott, and the cooking Lori!) which will be excellent. We’ll also be around for the inauguration and will have had at least a small part of our stay under someone other than George W. Bush as president (and in a Blue Virginia!) for which I am very grateful to the electorate.
Last but not least are the pictures (on Flickr as usual). We’ve been quite busy as you can see, in something approaching chronological order we have:
Redskins Vs Cleveland with Matt & TK
Hopefully it won’t be as long a gap too my next post, but I think if anything it will just get busier in the near future with the move prep….
That’s a damn shame that they’re not letting you stay. Surely the fact that your company is willing to hold on to you after you’ve moved would be enough proof that you’re “qualified” enough to stay. Ah well, the good news is that things are gradually starting to get cheaper again here in recessionland so you might be able to afford rent come March.
And what’s Jenny doing?
Make sure you let me about the details on your America Kicked Adam Out Party™. I’d also like to look you up the next time the wife and I are in Ireland.
Shit man, sorry to hear that you gotta go. That really sucks, I’d have thought the company would have been enough to get you a pass on that one.
In order of brevity:
@Chris:
I will make sure I cast as wide a net as possible for the aforementioned party
@Dave B
The company did try – twice in fact, with SVP & EVP approval – but the US government would not budge on the requirements (see below).
@Dave W:
For every year of a degree you do not have you need 3 years of professional experience to make up for it. Since I only had 9 years of that, all I needed was something equivalent to a years worth of college credit. Unfortunately Trinity does not grant partial credit for passed courses, so that was no use and an RHCE qualification with a bunch of other training didn’t make up the difference. So home I go
The irony of dropping out of college and taking the job that now requires the college part is not lost on me.
As for Jen, she is also keeping her job and will work as a contractor from Dublin, so we’ll both be back next year
Adser,
Jazus,
Not edecated enuf, wats dat all aboat? What hope the poor paddy den, Holy God! Time to start the ” Dear Mr. Obama” letter. Glad to see you back in the land of the sausageless and the land of the free (handout) LOL. Let’s know the touchdown date and we’ll do a get together. I’d use Dublinese venacular for the return, ( bloody B%^t$%d’s, sure didn’t Peig send her best to ya, to build ya, and now you are senden dem back !) Am sorry to hear the news, but hopefully the Emerald Isle can hedge-em-ucate ya, and they can take ya back.
Take care in your travels, both to you and Jen, and at least, welcome back.
P.S. : I’ll drop off the Kangol hammer to yer dad later,
All the best, cuz