Working Girl

No, not THAT kind of working girl (giggle, giggle).
I am happy to report that I am back to work, my first non-PSS job in 7.5 years! Its a contract/temp job that I landed through Kforce Professional Staffing. I am working as a "consultant" for a CPA firm based in Connecticut that is doing an audit for a company here in Pittsburgh. The assignment is for 4-6 weeks which conveniently takes me to April 1st.
The name of the company is Michael Baker Jr, Inc (http://www.mbakercorp.com/). They are an engineering firm that builds roads, does environmental work, etc. I am assisting on an audit of all the projects they have done for the New Jersey Department of Transportation over the last 7 years. Its mostly pulling invoices and entering data into a spreadsheet. Honestly, it's ridiculously easy work for me and for what they're paying me but I'M NOT COMPLAINING!
I've been on the job for 2 days now and am quite content. My boss is really nice and laid-back, the ladies in the office are nice to me (one even gave me a GIANT chocolate-covered strawberry today - yummy!) and I have my own quiet cube to do my work.
So far I only have one complaint - the drive to the office SUCKS! It may only be 13 miles but it takes roughly 32 minutes because I have to go slow (15-25 mph) up and down and around the sides of the mountains. Two lane roads, no shoulders, hundred feet drops on either side and blind curves and turns. Pray for me that I don't have to drive it in the snow and ice or in the dark!
I am extremely grateful to have a job to go to and to have a source of income in today's economy. Being out of work for the last 3 months has taken a toll on me, and Scott, and our bank accounts. I continue to look for permanent work and am not-so-secretly hoping that PSS hires me back as an analyst and allows me to work from our Pittsburgh branch.