Newsflash, DUmmies--never, EVER count on an offer.
I say that based on a job I've had for seven years now. And I'd have a signed offer before I even THOUGHT of giving any notice at my current job.
Ouch, Ex had a great job at NUS and was side slapped by a head hunter for some other Company that recruited ex-nukes that had retired.
These ex Nukes go into the civilian blind to the facts of life. All those years of Military and BAMB they have to adjust to life on the outside. 20+ years with someone over them that gave them their orders, and backed them up when they had a problem.
Not so civilian life, one is on their own, no telling what kind of crap they can get into.
So EX was found by a head hunter, taken out to dinner, dined and wined, given every reason to quit his job and come to work for them. Choice of location, much better pay and lots of perks.
Ex liked his job and turned them down. Head hunters were not happy, they had spent a bit of money to fly him across country to talk to the so called big wigs, put him up for a week in an expensive Hotel, taken him on the town and for all I know a free Hooker of the sex and age of his choice.
Ex comes home to find he is called into some office with 4-5 strange men., that grilled him about his association with the head hunters. As he told me the employer of him were not going to diddle around with him, his $120,000 a year pay check.
Good man and I say as an ex wife, while the kids and I got just $200, a month for us he was first and for most an honest man in his mind. We survived without him , shit happens and the life he wanted to have came to him-----He died at 62 and none of his children felt grief at his passing . We never knew the man, he was out to sea for most of the kids lives and when he came home he had no idea of what to do with all these kids-.
To this day I wonder what would have become of him had he gone with the head hunters, a better life , as staying with his old job became a mess and he retired from that to drive a school buss.
