[Groesbeck Hurricane]

Jon,

Just some general thoughts FWIW:

Option 1: May not come to pass. You have no guarantee and the hiring freeze might not come off for years. Failure to Produce will likely hit the company with fees and penalties. This will negatively affect their ability to expand. I do not know for sure but IF I wrote the orders, there would be penalties and fees.

Also, HR cannot guarantee the position will be there in the future. Other people will be applying for these positions as time goes by....

Option 2: Yep, hot and sticky. Close to Mexico. The brown gulf waters. Storms every year. The people are VERY nice. Tourists come through all the time. You can easily get to some really neat areas of Texas. Corpus Christi is not so bad of a town. You would only need get a car if you: Don't currently have one or don't currently have AC in your car. I would get a used car with good AC.

Company sounds solid enough from your short description. Is this so?

Dude, COST OF LIVING!!!! NO state income tax, the housing costs will be silly cheap to you! Examine the differences in cost of living. $100K in NYC is NOTHING. In Corpus $100K makes you a king!!

Option 3: Independent contractor with sketchy work available. It would not call to me.

Option 4: Don't wait more than seven days to call the HR person!!! Again, this is a bird in the bush, nothing solid. Politely keep the HR person abreast of what you are doing. Don't burn the bridges.

Yep, I guess I'd go with Number 2 unless living in NYC were that important to me. Then Option 4 becomes my go to game.