so the general topic is hobbies let's hear about your hobbies
yes
well let's see what kind of hobbies do i have i guess uh i it's more not so much a hobby but things i enjoy doing i enjoy playing basketball and and basically all kinds of sports and uh excuse me
any handicrafts any handicrafts
no not not really um no i i'm really not too creative well i uh you know around with my hands and things like that i leave that more up to my mom
so i i think i'm developing a new handicraft i think it'll become resume writing
oh yeah
oh well let's hope that you you you aren't employed employed by that craft for too long
uh yeah i i hate to think about it and and i'm getting rather good at reading want ads yeah it it
uh-huh what what
what kind of time frame is it uh looking for the uh different shifts up there
i who knows
is it uh basically i had read that they're just looking at relocating them all to McKinney is it Texas
no all means about fifteen to twenty percent of
oh wow
of oh i'm sure the numbers somewhat classified but it's on the internal news and the news services so it's approximately six fifty so
uh-huh
ten percent of six fifty sixty five and twenty percent would be one thirty
wow how about that yeah that's what it did report was a hundred and thirty relocating down to McKinney
yeah that's possible
how about that well that's uh that's unfortunate is there many many other are you in the defense
oh yes that's here
is it uh it many other corporations in the area
uh
i saw 7-Eleven that was hiring
well i'm sure with the new uh awarding contract awarding i i think it went to Lockheed didn't it
yes
that uh i hear they're hiring all over the place for that
yeah uh no Apple's coming to town and and that has some opportunities and uh and
oh really
now is that actually just to Colorado or to Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs specifically yes
how about that
and uh and uh MCI's coming if if telemarketing is your bag personally i'd rather die a slow painful death but
um-hum
were you in the uh computer operations or in the actual uh manufacturing
uh i'm a defense worker a government tool control specialist
right yeah that's why i was in the DSEG down here in Plano also
are you still employed
am i still employed by TI no i took a leave of of TI back in November
oh
actually December was my first month away from them
exempt or hourly oh yes
exempt
it uh uh fortunately i guess for myself it wasn't uh it was purely by my own choice
it wasn't uh there was no incentive for myself to leave but it was just an opportunity arose and decided to take it
oh so you didn't even get the severance package
no i should have taken the the the you know uh option when that was there but it was just i missed it by a couple months
but you know what can one do i'm just happy to still to have a job
so are you happy with what you're doing now
yeah i am kind of happy with it it it's getting better all the time i knew it would be different from the very beginning but you know as as you get to know more of the people that work there and more of what's going on with the system so i was in the computer operations
it's uh you know it all starts to become similar there's you know there's benefits and there's things that weren't as good but as an overall package i'd say i i'm pretty happy so far with the way it's turned out
yeah
good good well hasn't been a long time TI or i i'm
um-hum
significantly shaken by the situation
right
but not devastated
um-hum well the the one thing i guess at least in your favor is the the fact that that that is more in the support of the manufacturing and there's lots and lots of companies that have
maybe maybe not in the defense the defense area but manufacturing in general
tell you the truth i'm i'm i'm not really worried
uh-huh well that's great that's good
and and i seem rather happy about it most of the time just just to know
uh-huh
what's
possibilities are you know what might happen
sure yeah sometimes it's good just to have everything out on the table
but
still in all
it may be a blessing in disguise
it feels funny
i know a number of people who are uh surplused and they're just actually what the positions that they've found outside of the company were much much better than the ones that they currently had inside
so
despite the fact that i should be tying flies or fly fishing or or going for walks in the mountains i can't seem to get into it right now
exactly
uh-huh well i'm sure it's just with the the the the way that things are so topsy-turvy right now as soon as you decide decide on a pass
uh situational i i doubt i'll be here in six months
uh-huh well would you like to be there
i
all things being equal yes
uh-huh what
but or or even somewhere better but
sure
God this is much better than west Texas
uh-huh well just take the day
but then they they tell me hell is much better than west Texas
well actually uh the the the Plano Dallas Houston you know Austin that whole area is is actually quite quite nice
i my little brother lives in Austin right now
oh that's a beautiful place
goes to UT
uh-huh
that's just fantastic down there take it more as a this is your opportunity to do whatever you want pick out where you want to live and then once you pick that spot out pick out what you want to do
i
see that's the problem for the last many years i've more or less let them direct what i want to do and where i want to go
um-hum um-hum
and just kind of go with the punches
sure
and now i feel lost
um-hum yeah that's a it it takes a bit of a shift doesn't it
oh i've had job offers
uh-huh
but
i never found the one that was worth it for me to leave
uh-huh well the best thing about it is that you can uh try something if you don't like it shoot move on to something else that's the way i've uh looked at the whole thing here i'll take a chance if i don't like it i'll go someplace else do something different
and that
oh so had you been with TI long when you changed
five years
well there's a noticeable difference there i've been with them sixteen
yeah
yeah i can imagine you know the longer and longer it goes
actually seventeen now and
oh yeah momentum is uh driving force in our lives
um-hum
but
so yeah i'm looking as as a opportunity
well that's good you've got a good attitude about it
and and i'm looking at it as
a change
um-hum
and i'm looking at it as
as
an adventure
right there you go
that's the way to do it
and maybe i'll wet a fly line this year and do some camping if i don't get laid off between now and then
there you go that's the thing to do
that's much funner than doing any kind of job
huh how about we end this
that'll work out just fine
nice talking to you
all right nice talking to you good-bye
bye
