A job working for a hardware vendor like HP doing local area field support? That will probably be impossible to find. I think the trick is to find a different

A job working for a hardware vendor like HP doing local area field support? That will probably be impossible to find. I think the trick is to find a different (yet related) role with a company that is expanding rather than contracting their business. Datacenter tech springs to my mind -- a fair number of tech companies have midwest sites (mostly Chicago, sometimes Minneapolis or Nebraska or elsewhere) that don't have local techs. Issues are often handled by the east coast team flying out, which is less than ideal. Someone with that many years of hardware experience is pretty hard to find for those types of roles.