Fresh 35 Hits the Job Trail

A dream of mine has always been to live in the state of North Carolina. I've never actually been there, so its difficult to know for certain if I would enjoy living there, but from what everyone has told me, the variety of attractions the state has to offer and the sheer majestic of mountains, oceans and forests, its hard to assume I wouldn't feel right at home there. As luck would have it, a week before moving West, an employment opportunity has opened up in the state of North Carolina.

Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem has recently posted a position in their athletic office as an Assistant Director, Event Management and Facilities. The full position description can be viewed here. Suffice it to say, between my internships at North Texas, Quincy (twice), the Ohio Valley Conference office, my stint as a basketball manager and assisting in game operations during the Missouri Valley Conference's men's basketball championship in 2009, I feel confident in saying that I'm qualified for this position. I successfully applied on Friday the 22nd and instantaneously my mind began comprehending what it would be like to move more than a thousand miles West in the coming days only to move a couple thousand miles East only a few short weeks later. While that fact doesn't sound appealing, I hope that I'm fortunate enough to get to that decision, because I would obviously take the job and move across the country (again) to settle into something I've been working toward for so long.

Elsewhere, Illinois State University in Normal had a job posting similar to that of WF this week. Director of Events and Game Operations is the other most recent job opening I feel qualified enough to pursue and subsequently applied for. ISU write up is here. Bloomington-Normal doesn't excite me quite like Winston-Salem, but again, I'll pretty much go wherever to get that first job. While I am against cold weather, I am not against family and since ISU is only a few hours from home the list of pros outweigh the cons.

Neither job closes until November so assuming they stay on their predicted schedule, it will be a few weeks before I hear anything one way or another on these opportunities.

In other news, I undertook my final Iowa tailgate for a while this past weekend. All in all, the weekend was a success if you excuse the tiny fact that Iowa's special teams unit crapped the bed again and lost a game that could have easily been won. Had a blast hanging with my brother and recent addition to the family, sister in law. I played Tiger Woods on the Wii for the first time ever and after a 5 holes of looking like Michael J Fox swinging a golf club (too soon?) I was able to stage an epic comeback at Sawgrass and steal the improbable win from my bro. Fun times were had by all and I look forward to the next tailgate, whenever the hell that may be for me.

Weather forecast calls for snow in Colorado this week so while travel plans remain the same, I'm keeping a weathered eye on the weather channel - pun intended...

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