u/Correct-Avocado5426

I lost my job as a technical PM in July. I've been through all of the ghosting from consulting firms who said I'm "perfect" for whatever role they refer me for.

I had one employer stop talking to me because they said 45 minutes is too long for me to commute (my previous commute was 2 hours) and wanted me to sell my house, with a 2.75% mortgage rate and move to their shitty small town in this market.

Then I had another put me through a series of interviews and whiteboard sessions and said they really liked me, then kept scheduling interviews. I was up to 7 before they confessed they had another candidate and couldn't make the decision. After the 9th they told both of us that they decided they didn't want a PM anymore, sorry. I actually know someone who knows the other person and confirmed they told him the same thing.

I finally got an offer for someplace close to home through a contract firm as a contract to hire. I accepted and went through the background check and a drug test for some reason. All good. Then I was told at the last second that the employer decided to put the position on hold just before I started. I turned down another interview after I accepted this job and now I can't get back into the mix.

I have two weeks of severance left now.

What the actual fuck is happening? This isn't my first rodeo but I can't get over how unprofessional everything has become. I've already accepted I'm going to have to take a $40K pay cut, but why do these companies keep pulling jobs back?

I got a Sub2000 a few days ago. The first couple hundred rounds the Pmags worked well but after 600 or so they have become unreliable. They don't seem to lat h reliably. I got two other brand Glock compatible mags this morning and they've been 100% reliable. Are the Pmags garbage?

My grandfather died when I was a kid and when my grandmother cleaned up his stuff she came across his Winchester 94 and gave it to my parents to give to me. My parents weren't into guns so it's been sitting around ever since. From the serial number it appears to be from 1955 although my mom feels like he had it before then. In any case it was only fired once according to family lore.

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Forward about four decades and I've gotten into shooting and would love to get it checked out by a gunsmith and up and running again.

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The rifle is in Phoenix and I'm in Pennsylvania. How does one go about getting it out here? Can I legally take possession if there isn't a way for him to transfer it and there isn't mention of it going to me in a will or anything?

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Pic of the actual rifle is below. It didn't post the first time. My folks kept telling me it was in terrible shape but it looks pretty good to me. Apparently his SSN is etched into it somwhere.

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I'm not looking to sell it. I'd love to be able to get it into shape to safely fire occasionally.