Red's Box

Most of my you know by now that I've accepted a job offer in Fort Worth, Texas with Lockheed Martin. I will be doing proposal and project management type work for thew F-35 JSF program. You probably also know that the wife and I are well on our way to pur first minion. All this change has got me thinking about the way things come around. What few of you might know is it was originally LM Aeronautics that I had tried so desperately to hire on with out of college, but after months of unemployment an offer to work with Lockheed for NASA was too good to pass up, despite it requiring a stay in Houston. Two days after I accepted the offer in Houston I was called by Aero for an interview, but such as I am I declined. I had already committed myself and I was afraid any hesitation would cause me to stumble.

So here I am. Almost exactly three years later after having done some crazy things in order to pull my weight in the US manned space flight mission returning to what I rejected to even my own surprise. I find myself preparing to make a transition to that "thing I've always wanted" with a lot more reservations than I thought I should have. Maybe it is partly because of the uncertainty and unsteady future that is looming over this little space industry or maybe because I've made more friends here than I thought I could. One thing is for certain is that I definitely learned how much a person can learn about one's self by doing something you thought you didn't want followed by something you thought meant everything and then examining the delta in between.

I am very excited about the new job and can't wait to have a Jerod 2.0 to corrupt. I just wish the cost of change wasn't always so damn high.