Good or bad, apparently.

I went back into the security guard field in October, which is about 8 months ago. I went to work for a low end no benefits company that at least promised me 40 hours a week of work at a regular schedule.

About four months later they moved me to a post in Hollywood as a result of my experience (from other jobs). It was 22 miles a day more driving, I lost weekends off and the job was a lot harder and occasionally dangerous. I eventually went to a lower paying job here in Santa Clarita to get away from it.

Friday two weeks ago the original company offered me a raise and a move to a medical center in Van Nuys, not only the best post they have put me on so far, but the highest paying as well.

Friday last week, I got a call from another company offering me an even better pay rate for a job here in town.

Today I got yet another call from another company for a job here in town, a wierd schedule, but this time from one (of only three) companies that give their employees a full benefits package. It would be the same pay and benefits I had with Staples when I was full time.

This is literally the first time in my live that I have ever been in a position to turn down an offer for a good job.

I had gotten an android for my birthday and immediately wondered how I had ever gotten by without it.

later due to a hiccup in the home cash flow the phone got cut off because I couldn't pay the bill for it. However even now that I have the money to turn it back on - I may not.

With the original walmart family mobile chi[p still in it, the phone gave an error whenever it was powered on, and so was useless. However - I still had the original standard T-Mobile sim card that came with the phone. Since the Walmart chip was now no good to anybody for anything, I put the originally supplied chip in.

The phone now thinks it is brand new out of the box, and the WiFi turned back on.

And so Skype once again works. So essentially as long as I am in range of WiFi, it essentially still works as a phone. For free.

Last element - Skype predates the current SMS message system and so while voice calls are free - SMS messages are not. So - I sighed up for anaother free service called textfree and use that.

As long as am within wifi range of somewhere, thsi all works. And at home and at both jobs this is usually the case. Only drawback is that my voice only number cannot recieve text (so its like a landline) and my text number cannot receive voice calls unless Ipay, so I have two different numbers

So its
661-347-1137 Voice
661-360-1237 SMS

martes and I each have our own phone numbers.  They began life as POTS lines, became. Vonage numbers, moved again to a different VOIP provider (phonepower) that cost even less, briefly became Tmobile cell phones (a necessary intermediate step) and finally became google voice numbers.

 

Bottom line after all that is we now have free phone service.   And you can text both numbers now.