Friday, February 8, 2008

Jeff got a new job!

Jeff was going to school and working part-time last semester, but he's taking this semester off because we can't afford it. We paid for last semester, but we need some sort of loan or financial aid (or something!). He went back to full-time at Dentrix (his current place of work for a couple more weeks) so we could save more money and because we needed his benefits... Dentrix has out-of-this-world benefits and if we had had his benefits this past November when I had a staph infection and had to go to the ER, we would have paid about $100 something instead of $800 something (without my insurance, it would have been $1,200 something). Anyway, sometimes Jeff gets stressed at Dentrix. The Elders Quorum President in our Ward works at this one place (I forgot the name of it) where there was a job opening, and a month or so ago he told Jeff about it. Jeff applied and went in for an interview a few weeks ago. He was told he'd make about $12 (or $12 something) an hour and that they'd be moving from Lindon to Draper in about a month. He wasn't sure about commuting from Pleasant Grove to Draper. Plus, he wasn't sure about their benefits (since Dentrix has awesome benefits). He got sent an application through e-mail to print out and fill out and he took it back earlier this week. Well, to make a long story short.... wait a minute, it's already a long story, so never mind the short story. :-) A couple days ago he got 2 e-mails, one from the lady that interviewed him and one from Brandon (the Elders Quorum President). Brandon just told Jeff a couple more things about the job, that it would actually start at $13/hour ($2.25/hour more than what he has been making), what the benefits are (which aren't bad at all), and that maybe 2-4 weeks out of the year he would get to go on business trips, even international. The lady that interviewed him said he was accepted for the position and that he could start whenever. It also sounds like maybe it would be a lot easier to move up in the company than at Dentrix. After praying about it and getting a strong impression that he should take this job, he called yesterday morning to accept it and he starts on the 25th. He also put in his 2-week notice at Dentrix yesterday. We're both very excited for this opportunity of Jeff's! And we'll see what happens with this new job. I might make Jeff post an entry on here one of these days, saying what he does for the company (and the name of it). :-)

7 comments:

Brenda said...

Congratulations to Jeff on his new job!

Anonymous said...

That's great!!! Congratulations! So will you be moving further north?

Kristen Jensen said...

That's great!

Vicki said...

We won't be moving further north. I think the location his new job will be moving is right off the freeway and we live right off the freeway in Pleasant Grove, so it won't be too bad... maybe like my job where I have to travel 15-20 minutes to south Provo.

Leslie said...

congrats. good luck with it.

Mindy said...

I hope it all works out! That's exciting!

V and Co. said...

we've been there (the not being able to pay for school) hang in there and congrats on the job!