The Rest of the Story

If you read my last post, you know that we have called an end to our great big road trip. We were on the road (or at least away from home) for two-and-a-half months and the trip wasn’t going as well as we had hoped. However, there is more to the story than I included in my Kickapoo Free Press column.

Using the Way Back Machine, let’s go back to the summer of 2007. We had decided that Kim needed to get a job outside of my agency. Kim was working for free, which was great for the agency, but horrible for our family finances. Good paying jobs around Viroqua are few and far between (some would say “non-existent”), so she submitted her resume to State Farm. Kim worked for State Farm for 13 years as a (very good) claim representative before giving up her job to come to work in my agency in July 2006. When she didn’t hear back from State Farm after a month or two (she called and emailed, but they never responded), we came up with the bright idea of going on our road trip.

In early February, Kim received a call from State Farm out of the blue. To our surprise, Kim was offered a claim rep job without an interview. To make the deal even sweeter, they offered her more money than she was making when she quit in 2006. The only downside (if it is a downside) is that the job is located in State Farm’s office in Murfreesboro, TN. Even so, the opportunity was just too good to pass up.

So as I write this, the movers are moving our stuff into a house we rented in Lascassas, TN. Everything has happened so fast, we haven’t even had a chance to tell a lot of our friends about the move. If you are among the many that is finding out about the move through this post, please forgive us. The past three weeks (since Kim was offered the job) have been crazy. Hopefully, things will settle down now so we can let you know what is going on.