Tuesday afternoon I am stepping onto an airplane and saying goodbye, again, to the Midwest. Having been laid off from my job as a jack-of-all-trades engineer at a small ISP in January, I've spent the last few months doing consulting work as a freelance engineer all over the country. Sometimes I was doing network engineering, other times a little database and software engineering, and once I even consulted for a television show in Seattle.

But to be honest, I'm not the kind of person that likes to travel by plane very much, so I've been job-hunting at the same time. I'd work for a client in San Francisco during the day, and interview for jobs in my spare time. But flying from coast to coast and back to the Midwest all the time isn't really my thing, even though I love to fly. But I only love to fly when I'm the pilot, not when I have to sit in coach and listen to everything that goes with it.

But the few months of freelance consulting I've done has paid off, and one of the clients I consulted for in Boston has offered me a full-time position. I'll still be doing a fair amount of traveling, I'm certain, but nowhere near as much as I've done over the last few months. Primarily I'll be working in the Boston and larger New England area, instead of flying to the east coast one week, and the west coast the following week.

I'm extremely excited about the job, to be perfectly honest. It's not just that I get to move back to my favorite city in the entire world, Boston, but I'm going to get paid to help companies reduce their carbon footprint.