Reeka's blog: "Whatever"

I haz qweschun.

As some of you know, I am working a contract job at GM.  I'm currently located in their Warren technical center, which is 45 miles from my home.  With traffic in the afternoons, the normal commute is 1-1.5 hours, and it's been as bad as 3 when the snow flies.  However, I enjoy the work there, I like my coworkers, and my boss is pretty laid back and reasonable.

This summer, I was asked to help out part time at the Milford Proving Grounds, which is 15 miles from home.  It takes 20 minutes tops to get there, and there are several alternate routes to avoid traffic on the highway if necessary.  The work I've been doing there has been boring technician level work that's messy.  The boss is type A^2 and micromanages everyone.  However, I was just told that they finally have approval to hire 3 new contract people there.

I doubt my current boss will tell me of the opening, because he wants to keep me in his group.  Which is nice, and bodes well for my chances of becoming permanently hired if I stay there.  So, if I think I really want to work in Milford, I'm going to have to ask.  I just can't decide whether it's worth it at this point in my life, where I barely have energy to make it through my workday and commute let alone housework when I get home, to have the extra hour or two a day back.  It could be that with the full time position they would have me do more challenging work.  I just don't know what to do.