agreed, Fort Atkinson is a great town... I have a question, I graduated from UW-Madison in August and I have been working a sales job with a small finance company in Middleton. I have to be honest I like my job, but it has been incredibly difficult because my girlfriend is currently attending law school at William Mitchell in St. Paul, MN. Apart from all of the logistics of me moving up there and everything involved with that, we have pretty much both decided that we do not want to do this long distance thing any longer. It has only been 5 months, and it just isn't worth it. My concerns with leaving my current job are this, first off it scares me to leave without having a job lined up in Minnesota first. However, it seems like it will be very difficult for me to hide going on interviews if I am able to land any in the Twin Cities. In addition, what happens if a prospective employer contacts my current employer as a reference? If my current employer were to find out that I was looking for jobs I would probably be terminated, which obviously is not something that I am after. My other concern is that it is a sales job, and obviously I have only been working the job for not even 5 months, my first quota is this month and it looks like I am going to meet it, but is less than a year experience at a sales job attractive to a prospective employer knowing that my production will not have been that great due to the fact that it takes time to build business? I have a million ideas running through my head as to how I should approach the entire thing. I think that us trying to do long distance has been a good thing, it has shown us what we want, but I just do not think it is worth it to keep doing this to both of us, my hope is that I will be able to find at least a similar position in the Twin Cities area...of course that is all in a perfect world...
