Thanks all for your replies. Radio silence with PSA in that I contacted them but had not yet heard back. I definitely didn't blow off any interviews or communication attempts.

I had not really considered jumping ship to be a DEC somewhere once I have the requisite experience/if CPP doesn't work out. Good idea.

I have read elsewhere to be sure that I don't end up with a sim partner who also had a RTP background. That got me thinking about Envoy since, sure I'd have to commute, but they have a lot of RTP folks (300 as of a Q3 newsletter I received) so the company must have the transition training down to a science.