It is but I had a great situation being in a USFS housing unit next to the station. It is a 1 minute walk. For those that don't know it's kinda like military housing for the Armed Forces. The Forest Service occasionally built residences or barracks next to the stations especially if they were remote. My station is adjacent to a Wilderness Area and a big lake. When it was built in 1964 it was way out there.
Last October I had accepted another Forest Service job but with the LBJ National Grassland in Decatur, TX (3 hours from my hometown in OK). HR dragged their feet and I couldn't get them to tell me a start date for 6 months. Fire season was starting in California and I felt that I couldn't leave my crew down a man, especially since I was one of two CDL divers for the engine. I told HR that I unaccepted the job in TX.
This Bureau of Indian Affairs job came up in October, I applied, and they gave me a start date of Jan. 2 pretty soon after I accepted the job. The station there is only 30 minutes from my house. My Dad is selling me the old place because they built nearby and the kids will be walking distance away.
I had it placed on me to move back home because my folks are getting older and California is out of it's mind. 3 hours away in Texas wasn't moving back home. I feel like this was divine intervention.