NEWS FLASH!

At the risk of breaking this lovely timeline, I just wanted to throw in an important information update, for those of you who are watching this blog with baited breath…

So far the job search score is:

2 Job Offers
Traynor O’Toole
Henry J. Lyons & Partners Architects
2 Rejections
Oppermann Associates
RKD

Traynor O'Toole a firm that is lower on my list, but still a good solid firm that I would get good experience from. Henry J. Lyons is one of my top three firms, and I will likely take their offer unless one of the others comes in with more money. (For some of you architecture geeks that had looked at my interview list, check the HJLyons site out because they weren’t on the list earlier on. The guy I would work for, worked for a year under Thom Mayne at Morphosis.)

Opperman was also one of my top three firms. RKD was somewhere in the middle. Both of these rejections were based on the experience level needed for the positions available being more than I had to offer. Had they had positions open at a lower level they would likely have been more open to taking me on (IE, they liked me a lot, but don’t have a spot for me at the moment).

Also, for those of you who had heard of my visa process changing woes, I am happy to report that the new Green Card system finally released by the Department of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment is going to work for me, so there should be no trouble there. This was something I was stressing over even more than the offer situation, so I am feeling a bit more at ease.

Down stomach acid, DOWN!

All of this together pretty much clinches it (barring some unknown roadblock) that we will be living in Dublin for a few years and this thing is actually going to work!