03-28-2011, 02:15 PM
Alaskana,
Can I ask what drew you here in the first place? That might also help others contemplating the move here make their decision. I worked with a woman from Alaska a few years ago, her husband realized within just a few months that he couldn't stand it here, and they left for Oklahoma as soon as the school year was over. They came because family had moved here and discovered that it was just not for them. He was always too hot, even though they moved pretty far mauka, and described living in Puna as being like living on an Indian reservation in the middle of the Pacific. I know the poverty bothered them far more than the isolation, they had lived really far out in the boonies in Alaska (she taught in a one room school with less than 20 students out in the bush).
I do agree about the difficulty in mainlanders getting hired, I think it is worse for men than women, unless you have a highly specialized skill that is in demand.
Good luck with your next step, wherever it is.
Carol
Can I ask what drew you here in the first place? That might also help others contemplating the move here make their decision. I worked with a woman from Alaska a few years ago, her husband realized within just a few months that he couldn't stand it here, and they left for Oklahoma as soon as the school year was over. They came because family had moved here and discovered that it was just not for them. He was always too hot, even though they moved pretty far mauka, and described living in Puna as being like living on an Indian reservation in the middle of the Pacific. I know the poverty bothered them far more than the isolation, they had lived really far out in the boonies in Alaska (she taught in a one room school with less than 20 students out in the bush).
I do agree about the difficulty in mainlanders getting hired, I think it is worse for men than women, unless you have a highly specialized skill that is in demand.
Good luck with your next step, wherever it is.
Carol
Carol
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb
Every time you feel yourself getting pulled into other people's nonsense, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Polish Proverb