I hated the fact that I had to come home and tell my wife that I was getting transferred again.
In fact, I sat inside my car for more than 30 minutes with the air conditioning after I was told about this impending move at the end of the day.
It was a gorgeous Spring evening and I would have ridden home with the windows down had it not been for that news. I began sweating inside the zone controlled HVAC of my office right after I got off the phone with corporate. The idea of moving again was not at all appealing. I think the bosses knew this as they made a salary offer for me to take over a flailing office that was really rich. Still, as I sat trying to calm myself inside the air conditioning of my car, my wife was going to hate this. It didn’t make matters any better that we had just finished the renovations on our house that we started like 18 months ago. We basically redid the whole thing. And the heating and cooling equipment is the very latest in residential HVAC. It comes with all kinds of great HVAC technology as well. The house had just gotten to the point where we wanted it. And we wouldn’t have gone through all of those renovations had we known we’d be moving again. My wife ended up being spectacularly supportive. I was also willing to decline the offer and stay put. But we decided to go with it and put the house on the market. Our HVAC company was even kind enough to provide us with a list of recommended HVAC professionals in our new town.