As most of you know, I am in construction for the phone company. Well, we lost thousands of cables in the Southern California fire. In fact, we are still losing...
We had a meeting today at work. They are sending pretty much everyone to Southern California to rebuild. They are even sending techs from out of state. We were told to stand by and that we will be leaving anytime within the next thirty days. The goal is to have three week rotation, so hopefully I won't be gone to long. The company cannot guarantee us that we'll be home that soon though. They said it may be months.
They told us to expect 90+ hour weeks. They can only force us 10 hour days, but of course if your co-workers are busting their tails you aren't going to cut out early.
I sat my six year old son down today and showed him pictures of the fire. I explained that mommy has to go help these people and that I will be gone for a long time. He's reasonably upset but I think he understands. I promised that him and daddy can come down and stay at my hotel as a mini vacation. That cheered him up a bit.
In some ways, I am looking forward to helping and all the extra money I'll make. But Gosh, am I going to be homesick! I have never left my husband or son for more then a few days. I'd just started back to school, but my instructor is going to look into postponing the classes since the majority of students are phone company employees.
So, anyways...I don't know if I'll have any notice. If I fall off the face of the Earth, I'll be back.
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Try to keep in your mind what a sense of relief it will be for the residents there, when their vital communications are restored thanks to YOU!
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