Matt's job, the official post!

I just realized with all this talk of Colorado and then medical problems that I never shared with my readers the good news about Matt's job. This all came about in the week leading up to vacation, so it was all very fast. I'll try to sum it up.

Vet school is in College Station. There was no way on earth that Matt and I were going to maintain separate residences in Dallas and College Station so he could stay with his company. So that meant he had to find a job in CS. He interviewed with basically the biggest accounting firm in College Station and the Monday before we left for Colorado they made him a job offer. "Yay" we thought, because it was all settled. He'd be taking a pay cut, but that was inevitable and cost of living is less in CS anyway so we were happy. The only thing that wasn't super about the new job was that the first year he wouldn't get any vacation unless he "earned" it through working lots. With me back in school mode, including all its vacation glory, that was a little stinky. But totally doable.

Matt got his job offer on a Monday and he told the guys in CS he'd have an answer for them by Friday. So that left him the duty of telling his company he was leaving. Keep in mind they didn't know I'd gotten into vet school or anything. The next day Matt told his manager (the hierarchy basically goes staff (Matt) -> senior -> manager -> partner) the situation. His partner was gone until the end of the week, but his manager told him to not quit until his partner got back and could talk to him. Thursday his partner came in and talked to Matt about what was going on. Matt told him about vet school, how we didn't want to live in different cities, and how much the company in CS was offering. Having a number in hand, Matt's partner went to work and tried to figure out a way that he could match that salary while only having Matt in Dallas for the spring busy season. Even on Thursday night we were less than optimistic, because that was going to be a hard thing to do. Well, when Matt went in on Friday, his partner had worked it all out. Matt would have to come to Dallas for 10 weeks during busy season but could work remotely from College Station for the rest of the year. His partner matched the salary offer of the College Station people, plus we'd keep our benefits, vacation, and Matt's spot on the corporate ladder. Matt couldn't say no :) It's all because he's awesome, by the way. So that's what we're doing. The only unfortunate thing is Matt committed to stay in the Dallas office until October 1, but it wasn't hard for him to be nice to them after they were so awesome to us. So yeah, Matt is basically the best CPA ever.