Yesterday I went to an interview at a city public library in a community about 40 miles away. The drive down, not at rush hour, took 45 minutes. The interview was at 3, and I started my trek home at 3:45. I say trek because the freeway is under construction with one lane closed, and when I approached it I noted it was stopped above me on the overpass. So I passed the freeway by and headed home cross country. I ended up very near my old employer at 5:00 p.m., it took me a total of 2 hours to get home. As I was stopping and going down Dixie Highway, as I had for 13 years prior to my leaving my employment, I noted that I was once again driving home at rush hour wearing a suit and thinking about what to make for dinner. Somehow it didn’t feel all that good, but it did make me laugh!

So if I receive an offer from this library I will have to think long and hard about the commute. It’s been wonderful to be free of that, and it will be difficult to start again. But as my friend Reilly the Cowspot dog mentioned, it would be library experience, and it would surely help to have some more experience on my resume when something closer to home opens up. Good advice Reilly!