I Need DU Good Vibes Or Prayers Depending On Your Preference

[DemocratSinceBirth]

My girlfriend found a job as a senior accountant in Fort Lauderdale in June after looking for several months . We were happy to find a decent job in this economy even though it required us to leave an area (Orlando) where my roots were beyond strong, having lived there since I was a little boy. I have friends who I have known since I was twelve years old. The company she is working for was acquired by another company in Dallas and is moving its operations to Dallas and will use existing staff to fulfill its current needs.

The headhunter who found her this job has lined up two interviews for her this week. If she gets one of these jobs it will require us to stay in South Florida and even though I want to go home the drive from South to Central Florida is only a couple of hundred miles.
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When I hear people say you can "vote with your feet" or "go where the jobs are I don't think they realize the importance of "home". I remember the last day I spent with my ninety year old mom before she passed away. We were sitting in the one of the emergency rooms at Florida Hospital and they were running a battery of tests. My mom kept saying "I want to go home." After the tests I was wheeling her to my car with the accompanying nurse when her heart gave out and she died in my arms as I was helping her into the car. I didn't get to take her home but I tried my best.

She passed away on 9/28/08. These past couple years could not have sucked more; losing my mom, my home, my car, my business. If it were not for the kindness and generousity of friends, not family, I don't know what I would do.

[ejpoeta]

1. was she religious? she may have meant 'home' in the sense that she was ready

to go 'home' and not literally. good luck for your girlfriend. and i know the importance of home. i have lived here most of my life. and my family are all nearby. we have lived in our home with my husband and kids for off and on 12 years or so. i don't want to ever have to leave it. Just remember, as long as you are together, that is where home is. Good luck.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Like Most Folks My Mom Believed In "God"

And my religious friends said she might have been referring to her "heavenly home" but I'm pretty sure she was talking about her physical home. She was practically hollering it.

[ejpoeta]

12. at least you tried to get her home. and she knew you were trying to get her home.

at least you were there with her. my dad died in a hospice room at the hospital. it was weird because he died about fifteen minutes after my oldest sister got there. the only ones in the room were his six kids. my aunt tried to get there, but her car wouldn't start. i think that's how he wanted it. just his kids.

you did everything you could for your mom. that means more than anything else.

[ixion]

3. Look at it this way: You're only a couple hours away from 'home'

so it'll be easy to go back and see friends. My home town is in Nebraska, and I live in Sarasota now... it's a much longer trip for me to see friends. :)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Four Or So Hours

There are worse places than Sarasota.

I want to "go home" because I want to start a limo/shuttle service and it would be easier in Orlando. I spent nearly twenty five years in sales. I'm totally burned out by it.

I just hope my gf gets one of the jobs. It sucks. You look for a job for several months. You get the job. You move. You perform admirably. After only four months the company is acquired and moves and you have to find a new job.

[H2O Man]

4. Positive Vibrations

through prayer.

Your Mom went home. Reunion time there.

Keep in touch.

[pinboy3niner]

6. I'm sorry you lost your mom that way, but glad you could be with her

Losing her has to suck most of all. My sincere condolences on your loss.

I understand your attachment to the place you consider home. I grew up in CA, which I consider 'home,' but wound up spending a quarter-century in other places. I came back to CA to spend a week watching my mom die, together with both of my brothers for the first time in what seemed like eons. With Mom gone, I suddenly felt the pull of family, and moved to CA to be near one of my brothers who lived in the high desert--not a place I'd normally choose, as I'd much prefer being in or near lush forests. A place that has family and/or friends can exert a powerful emotional pull.

But in this economy, we have less freedom of choice about jobs requiring relocation. I hope things work out for you, but even if they don't, you'll always have the prospect of returning home in the future, as I did.

Love & Peace,
pinboy3niner

[ClassWarrior]

7. I hear ya. Having lived away from my home town for several years...

...I too ached for "home" at times. Prayers and good vibes coming your way!

NGU.

[Roon]

8. Home means a lot to me

I get so frustrated with my little brother because he was molested several times growing up and he now HATES our home and only comes and visits a couple of times a year. (denver)

I love being home, I was raised here and I will die here. I used to be a truck driver and have been to every state in the lower 48 several times. I didn't see anything that would make me want to move.

[ThatsMyBarack]

9. ....

:hug:

[blondeatlast]

10. I sympathize and am indeed praying for you. I consider Arizona my home but the

political and exonomic realities here are making me consider moving--but I would indeed have to leave my home.

God bless--and it's nice to see around these parts again, friend.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. The Economy Sucks Here But We Don't Have The Anti-Immigant Fervor

Though some exists...

[blueworld]

11. I'll pray hard for you - all of you. n/t

[SargeUNN]

14. Now you know how we Katrina Displaced feel

Sorry that you do. I live in Arizona 1600 miles from where I grew up and where my family is. Not that I am complaining because I am glad that I no longer live in the backwards Mississippi, but yes, I had my home stolen by the crap of Katrina. Good luck.

[Tsiyu]

15. Hang in there DSB

I went through a smidge of homesickness last weekend.

The Great New York State Fair was going on and some of my family were meeting there. I'd been invited but had no one to keep the critters.

This is one of those annual events that defined my childhood...

I mentioned it to friends who took me for the most wonderful canoe ride last Saturday (eight miles of the Elk River....hard to be homesick during that paddle.) One of the gals who paddled with us - a mountain young lady I mentor, teach to cook, etc. - secretly used her laptop to find me a news clip from Syracuse about this year's butter sculpture (always a topic of great interest in my family lol.)

When she showed it to me I felt like I was home for a few minutes, so silly...but I relate.



Still, we must bloom where planted so be courageous and go where those doors open. You never know what's up ahead.

And you have one another so that means "home" is wherever your little family is. :)