November Catch Up

November was crazy busy for Guy.

November was all about job interviews for Guy and time with family. The second weekend of November he went to Denver, Iowa (10 miles north of Waterloo) and interviewed with Schumacher Elevator. The company is a smaller family owned company that makes and designs speciality passenger elevators. He met with several different engineers, the CFO, VP of operations, VP of field operations and HR rep. The company is a little smaller but they were really friendly. Guy really enjoyed visiting the area and said the company was great and that he could see himself working there. They seemed really impressed by him and he enjoyed and got along with a lot of the older engineers as well. This is the first time the company has hired anybody straight from college and Guy said he felt comfortable with the company as well as he thought they felt comfortable with him.

It snowed while Guy was in LA. Tree with leaves and 8 in of snow!

The following Wednesday Schumacher called to let Guy know that he was on their short list of perspective hires. They would let him know after Thanksgiving is he was offered the position. The next day (Thursday) Guy flew down to Shreveport, Louisiana for an interview with a company called International Paper (IP). IP is a paper mill company. They make a variety of different paper type products. Two of the products that they make are the Starbucks coffee cups and the boxes that Amazon uses to ship products to you. Their interview process was a little different. They flew about 70 people in for the interviews. During their interview process they had team building exercises, and dinner with people who work at the different paper mills. There are about 20 mills throughout the south, one in Washington and 1 in Cedar Rapids. While he was finishing the interview process there were 2 different mills that really wanted him to work for them (Texarkana and Valliant, OK).  Guy was gone Thursday-Saturday with the interview.

Two days later (the Monday before Thanksgiving), we found out that Guy had been offered a position with IP working at the Valliant, OK mill. We had 3 weeks to decide.

We spent Thanksgiving in Chilicothe with the Lasley clan. Guy and his brothers worked on cleaning out the garage. As well as doing several odds and ends around the house. All of the close family members were able to come down with their families. The food was delicious and the company was excellent. On black Friday most of the women went shopping. It wasn't too crazy of a shopping trip but it was pretty nice to get out and spend some time chatting with family. The Saturday after Thanksgiving we left to spend time with my sister Katie and brother in law Brian at my Oma's house in West Des Moines. It was fun to spend time with them and socialize and get to know Brian a little better.

The Monday after Thanksgiving we found out that Guy had been offered a position with Schumacher and that he was their top pick. We weren't given a set time frame for when we needed to let the company know, but they did ask us to let them know as soon as possible so that they could notify the other choices as well.