All I know is it was the best conversation that I've ever had.
Life is what happens when you’re making other plans.
That saying has never been more true for me than today. Here I was thinking that I’d spend another two years in school getting my teaching certificate and then spend the rest of my life teaching five year-olds the alphabet and how to count. How wrong was I!
Thursday, I saw this job advertisement on monster.com for a SAS programmer. I thought, hey, I’m a SAS programmer, maybe I’ll apply for it. So I did. Seconds after I sent my resume, the HR manager emails me back to clarify something, and then Friday afternoon, she calls my cell. Of course, I was upstairs cleaning and my cell was downstairs, so I didn’t hear it ring. Before I went to pick my parents up at the airport, I checked to see if it was charged and saw that I had a voicemail. I listened to it, but it was too late to call the woman back, so I waited until Monday. I got her voicemail, but she called me back only a few hours later. I had my interview and it went well. She then set me up with an interview with the hiring manager in the department I’d be working in for the next day. Today, the hiring manager calls me and after about fifteen minutes of discussion, she offers me the job!
I have a meeting with her team and the HR manager later this week, but I don’t start work until after Labor Day because she works from New York and isn’t coming into Chicago until that week, which is when I begin my training. I’m making more than twice what I did with Zai and I get my choice of healthcare packages, which includes dental, vision and life insurance. And the job is downtown, on the northwest side of the city, near Clinton and Randolph. I’ve always wanted a job downtown! Plus, I get to take the Metra to LaSalle and then the Pink Line to Clinton/Lake. The Pink Line! I am so excited!
Of course, now I have to decide if I’m going to drop my classes or not and if I’m going to bother to make my first COBRA payment, because I have until the end of September for that and I’m sure my new health insurance will kick in by then. As for the classes, I don’t think I’ll be able to get to them on-time if I’m working 9-5 downtown. The good news about dropping them now is that I get a full-refund; the bad news is that I get charged a service fee of $25.00 per class. Oh, well. $50 isn’t that big of a loss, all things considered!
I am on cloud nine. My mom is so happy for me and proud of me. So are my brothers. I left a message on my dad’s voicemail since he’s out at a plant doing an exercise, but I’m sure he’ll feel the same way. This is just what I’ve needed. I couldn’t be happier.
That saying has never been more true for me than today. Here I was thinking that I’d spend another two years in school getting my teaching certificate and then spend the rest of my life teaching five year-olds the alphabet and how to count. How wrong was I!
Thursday, I saw this job advertisement on monster.com for a SAS programmer. I thought, hey, I’m a SAS programmer, maybe I’ll apply for it. So I did. Seconds after I sent my resume, the HR manager emails me back to clarify something, and then Friday afternoon, she calls my cell. Of course, I was upstairs cleaning and my cell was downstairs, so I didn’t hear it ring. Before I went to pick my parents up at the airport, I checked to see if it was charged and saw that I had a voicemail. I listened to it, but it was too late to call the woman back, so I waited until Monday. I got her voicemail, but she called me back only a few hours later. I had my interview and it went well. She then set me up with an interview with the hiring manager in the department I’d be working in for the next day. Today, the hiring manager calls me and after about fifteen minutes of discussion, she offers me the job!
I have a meeting with her team and the HR manager later this week, but I don’t start work until after Labor Day because she works from New York and isn’t coming into Chicago until that week, which is when I begin my training. I’m making more than twice what I did with Zai and I get my choice of healthcare packages, which includes dental, vision and life insurance. And the job is downtown, on the northwest side of the city, near Clinton and Randolph. I’ve always wanted a job downtown! Plus, I get to take the Metra to LaSalle and then the Pink Line to Clinton/Lake. The Pink Line! I am so excited!
Of course, now I have to decide if I’m going to drop my classes or not and if I’m going to bother to make my first COBRA payment, because I have until the end of September for that and I’m sure my new health insurance will kick in by then. As for the classes, I don’t think I’ll be able to get to them on-time if I’m working 9-5 downtown. The good news about dropping them now is that I get a full-refund; the bad news is that I get charged a service fee of $25.00 per class. Oh, well. $50 isn’t that big of a loss, all things considered!
I am on cloud nine. My mom is so happy for me and proud of me. So are my brothers. I left a message on my dad’s voicemail since he’s out at a plant doing an exercise, but I’m sure he’ll feel the same way. This is just what I’ve needed. I couldn’t be happier.