Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Close to a Decision

We spent the majority of the day yesterday on a merry go round with different options. The main choices boiled down to Grey's Point Park in VA, toughing it out here, or one of the parks that I was in contact with during the day which came out of the woodwork from the "feelers" I sent out last week. One was very interesting - a park in the Horizon RV Resorts System - that needed a management couple immediately. This park is located in a small town south of Houston, TX (Manvel) and is called Almost Heaven RV Resort. It sounded like a great opportunity for us - full hookup site, salary and other perks, but they would need us by this coming weekend to fill the spot of a departing management team. They seem like a very solid organization and we left it with Horizon that we would be interested in future opportunities in one of their parks across the country. That dialogue occurred while figuring monetary comparisons for the other options.

It is 1100 miles to the Grey's Point Park in VA and will cost approximately $800 in fuel - as opposed to over $2000 in fuel costs, and 2800 miles to go to Cody. That was using the current price for fuel which keeps rising and who knows how high it will go. Based on the numbers, we decided (tentatively) to go to Virginia. They want us to start between May 5 -10 which would be a good time frame. The money is actually better there than it is here when we consider the season ending bonus of $.50 for every hour worked while there. I would also get some valuable experience in Security, which I haven't done before. It's the same software system - Campground Manager - that we have used here and have the most experience with from other locations. So, if nothing else happens to change our minds, we will give notice tomorrow and hope they let us stay until at least the middle of next week which is the end of this pay period. We are in the 3rd pay period since we arrived, and I haven't received a paycheck yet since they are not able, for some reason, to put my information into the system. Josie has received one paycheck for the first 3 days we worked in the 1st pay period. Other than that, we have been working, so far, with no paychecks. Tomorrow is the payday for our 2nd pay period, so we'll see if we both get paid. My check is suppose to be issued manually.

It will be difficult to send the email to Cody informing them that we will not be able to work there this summer. We will try to keep the door open for next year, as we do plan to ultimately head back west for next summer. They are great people and we're sure they will understand. We will miss the area tremendously.

Since Josie did the laundry yesterday while I was working the job issues, we will probably go the pool today and just hang out. The next important step is to figure out how to tell them tomorrow that we are leaving. We aren't sure how they will react to that, since the park manager is leaving soon. Maybe she will be upset, and then again, maybe she won't care...

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