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Author Topic: another two-body problem solved!  (Read 6820 times)
spectacle
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« on: June 25, 2011, 09:18:49 AM »
It can be done! Hooray!

Here are some things that worked for us:

We put a limit on our time apart (two years)
We visited as often as possible, spoke every day and Skyped at least once a week

In terms of the job search...

Spouse is completely in love with his job, so he didn't go on the market this last cycle - I did an aggressive search in his region (within 50 miles of his job).

I cracked out an article this past year, and kept working on revising my dissertation; I developed new classes and did a ton of service and made sure everything was on my cv. 

I kept up on my recommenders to make sure I wouldn't be dropping on them from left field when I needed letters.

I applied for everything that could even REMOTELY apply to me.  Fortunately, I'm in a little bit of a hybrid field. 

I applied at CCs, JuCos, SLACs and research school.  Late in the game, I started considering applying to private high schools, but it didn't come to that. 

In the end, I had 1.5 offers (one school sort of offered me a position that they didn't actually have [budget issues]), so when it fell through, I didn't freak out because I had the other one lined up.  I resigned from my job in Other City this week. 

I read the Forums obsessively - particularly the job search stuff.  I am now 2.5 for 3 on campus visits and 3 for 4 on phone interviews because I interview like a BOSS.  I only have several thousand people to thank for that, and that is all of you.  You guys have sort of taken a mediocre candidate and made her a force to be reckoned with in my case.  *bows*  Thank you.

So now, a year almost to the day after moving Spouse to Spouse City, Spouse City just becomes home.  I need to get over to the Moving thread...

Keep your chins up, commuter marriage folks.  The impossible is possible.
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Quote from: larryc on March 29, 2011, 09:11:09 PM
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« Reply #1 on: June 25, 2011, 09:20:57 AM »
Well done, Spectacle! Congratulations.
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Quote from: prytania3 on August 10, 2011, 01:56:06 PM
Try to keep up, Larry.
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« Reply #2 on: June 25, 2011, 09:36:48 AM »
Congratulations, Spectacle! Looking forward to seeing you on the moving thread.
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I can't keep all these feelings at bay
I am rage, I am sorrow and grief
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« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2011, 01:24:04 PM »
Quote from: larryc on June 25, 2011, 09:20:57 AM
Well done, Spectacle! Congratulations.

Thank you!  I am giddy.

Quote from: professorplum on June 25, 2011, 09:36:48 AM
Congratulations, Spectacle! Looking forward to seeing you on the moving thread.

Thanks!
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« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2011, 02:27:10 PM »
Wonderful news, Spectacle!!  Congratulations!!
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« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2011, 02:51:41 PM »
Congrats, Spectacle!  I'm glad to see your hard work and conscientious dotting-of-the-"i"s paid off! 

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« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2011, 07:30:08 PM »
Whoo hoo for you! Congrats on both the new job and getting to live with your spouse again.
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