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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1715743" data-attributes="member: 12706">I can't agree with SubMensa enough that your wife and daughter go at the top of the heap - if you don't have them, what the heck are you working for? You won't believe all the changes your daughter will go through and things you will miss in 6-9 months. I know its cliche, but nobody on their deathbed ever thinks, "I should have spent more time in the office."Basically, out of what you mentioned, I'd be looking at three options:1. Move to Richmond on a permanent (?) basis, not per diem. Per diem would leave things as up in the air at the end as they would be at IBM, AND you'd miss your family. Richmond is pretty alright, compared to KC - if anything, I do believe the crime rate is lower in Richmond. (I've been to both on many occasions.) Make sure that if you end up in a smaller living space, you at least get something close to a park or other place you can comfortably get out a lot.2. Go for the permanent (?) position with IBM, and work your tail off to make sure they know you're a good worker - including stopping to help people with things you're not responsible for when possible. Your position may get phased out, but companies will find a place for someone who shows a willingness to WORK for them, and friends in other departments will help you to know when you might want to "swing across" to another more stable position.3. (One you didn't mention.) Sack the whole lot of it, and find something more sane to do than I.T. (I should mention I work in the same field.) During the dot-com bubble, our country had everybody who could SPELL "Internet" and their brother employed in the computer industry. Now that we've come to our senses somewhat where that's concerned, we've realized that a LOT of those positions were useless fluff in any given company compared, oh, say, the people working on the actual assembly lines for product. Unfortunately, all those computer-tech-wanna-bes are now floating around with reasonably nice looking resumes, making life a b*tch for those of us who actually are willing to work and KNOW our stuff, and expecting the same type of fluff positions they had before. Someone with the level of intelligence it takes to do what we do should be able to pick up another marketable skill in a more stable field quickly enough, if you don't have one already. And if nothing else, maybe that guy in Office Space had it right, and digging ditches as a good, honest living isn't so bad....Or maybe that 3rd one is just me projecting my wishes onto you.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Good luck, whatever you decide.</blockquote>

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