There and Back Again

Also in May came the supposed big opportunity to move to Rock Springs, WY and earn some "big money".  Scotty was looking for a Summer job when he found out about some truck driving jobs in Wyoming for the oil and natural gas companies.  Supposedly the pay was great and the hours were good (4 days on working 12 hours, then 3 days off).  So we made the move. We packed up our house as well as our new little 2 week old baby and moved to an apartment in Rock Springs.  That's when the real job realities hit. The company cut the employee pay by about 30% a week after we moved there. They also made the employees work up to 30 hours straight with no breaks, and then call them in to work on their days off as well (with no overtime pay I might add).  Soon it dawned on us that if we stayed there any longer we'd start losing money. Our rent was almost double what you can get a place in Utah for and the pay was not going to be enough to keep us afloat. So after all that work and effort, we made the move back to Utah a mere month and a half after moving away.  On a positive note, where as we had been renting a basement apartment before the Rock Springs fiasco, when we moved back we were able to find a perfect little house for us to rent. We now have more room for our Tasmanian devil 2 year old to run wild, as well as space for some relaxing. Scotty was also able to get a job with a rapidly expanding job at a company called Open Air Cinema as their Technology and Manufacturing specialist; at Open Air Scotty is finally able to put all his ingenuity to good use at a place where they really appreciate him and his talents. So we have to admit, that although the move to Rock Springs was a joke, it was the perfect little kick in the pants to get us into a home of our own and a great job for Scotty.