No Pain = No Gain

So its mid December 2007, a full year after I sat my FPGEE, and I've got nothing sorted. I have a tenuous contact in California and another in Florida to keep my hopes alive, plus a friendly auto-responser from Walmarts and a total blank piece of paper where the rest of America is supposed to be. This is NOT looking like I was expecting it to look at this point. However, things were to pick up. I email the Florida contact and tell her I will be in Florida in late January and could we meet up? She says YES! I then email the California contact and tell him I will be in California in late January and could we meet up? And he says YES! Cool - 2 for 2. I discuss dates with my wife, tell her she's going to stay at home and look after the 3 kids, and that I am going to go to Florida, and Los Angeles (and maybe, if I can find the time, a quick trip to Las Vegas!). So I decide the dates for my trip, take the plunge and book the various flights, and hire cars for Florida and LA, and book the hotel in Boca - I leave off booking the hotel in LA for the minute because I don't know when my interview will be, so I might get a chance to drive across to Las Vegas. The Florida contact confirms the date and time of the meeting as my hotel at 12 noon on the Friday of my trip. I give the LA contact my dates in LA and he chooses to meet at my hotel at 7am on the last morning of my trip - absolute perfection as this gives me 4 nights in Las Vegas - awesome! OK, everything is suddenly back on track and Walgreens are still on auto-bloody-response. Finally the time comes to make the trip, and I kiss the wife and kids goodbye and head off to meet my destiny. Next entry: The interviews!

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(Remember the timing on these posts are all meaningless as it is impossible to get them to list entries in reverse order otherwise). Farmacyst.