What is it with me and jobs?

I got the official word today... I'll be let go on March 3rd, because our customer hasn't managed to get the new USPS hardware approved for use by the USPS yet, so they want us to slow down our surveys 'cause they can't keep up, which means that we'll drop from 60-70 surveys a day to 6 or 7 per day. There were 6 people at this office working on the project, it's dropping to 2, and they're both managers.

The good news is that Deb and I must actually be "friends" now, we went out to lunch today and had an "ok" time (mmmm CiCi's), we actually have more in common than I gave her credit for at first glance, and although I never want to turn out at all like her, we can at least cooperate and get along now.

I've already emailed Dan at TEKsystems letting him know I'll need another job lined up around the 3rd, Lisa said that I can take w/e time off I need for interviews as long as I give her a day's warning, so she's being fair about it.

I'm actually pretty satisfied to be leaving this job so soon... I know that I rose to the challenge and learned how to cope with an extremely difficult work situation, but I also know that this job isn't a path to a career, so it was just wasting time.

My thoughts right now are revolving around possible future jobs... trying to decide ahead of time what minimum pay I can accept, what sacrafices of time and money I'd be willing to make in order to get a technical job, etc. There is one position available right now that I might interview for... but it's an hour or hour and a half commute in stopped traffic, and pays $2 less per hour than this job did. But it IS an entry-level pc technician position. With the pay that low, and the commute that long, I don't think I can afford to take it... for one thing putting that kinda wear on the Van would be a Very Bad Thing. I hate to pass on it tho, never know when another similar opportunity might come up.

Oh well, I'll just let my brain mull that stuff over in my subconscious for a few days, it'll come up with all the answers I need :)