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So much keeps happening that I feel I can't get it all down in words so I just don't write anything. I'm sorry!
Work went from bad to worse over the few weeks after I last wrote and eventually I just resigned. I didn't have another job to go to, I was broke but if I stayed another minute longer I was going to become a basket case. Once i had handed in myr esignation I smiled, really smiled, for the first time in weeks and weeks. It felt so much better to have no security, nothing to fall back on, than it did to be gainfully employed by a psychotic bitch.
I gave a weeks notice, resigned on the Monday morning and finished on the Friday afternoon, I felt bad for the girls, leaving them with so much work to do for the gala ball, but I couldn't have stayed longer once I resigned, it felt so wrong being there.
I already miss the job and the friends I made there like crazy, but I made the right decision. I applied for tons of jobs once I was done and I ended up with 4 to choose from. Two were pretty easy to say no to, one paid well but was way too far to travel and I wouldn't see Amelia enough, and the other didn't pay enough and the hours were too long for the amount of pay.
The third one I had decided to take even though the pay was far lower than I wanted because it sounded like a great opportunity and had so much potential for development. They called, offered me the job and I said great! Then the same day I got an email from a job I went for a month ago and didn't get. At the time I was devastated as it was a perfect job for me and I was really excited about it and felt like I had a really good chance. Now they wanted me for the job, the other person didn't end up working out. I was so torn! I really wanted this job, it paid more than the other one, it offered 6 weeks annual leave, leave loading, shorter work hours on school holidays.. but it was only a maternity leave position and dammit, I wasn't their first choice! For all I know I was 10th or even 100th! I spent hours on the phone to mum, Ash, my brother, trying to decide.
In the end I decided to take the job, even though I wasn't their first choice... but instinct told me to tell the other job my decision not to take it first. Immediately she was on the phone asking me how they could change my mind! I told her I didn't think they could as they had been pretty clear in the interview that what I asked for as a minimum salary was above what they had budgeted to pay for the role... and even if they matched the offer I had on the table, the other job still had 6 weeks leave etc. An hour or so later she was back on the phone with an $8k increase in their offer to account for extra leave and loading!!!! I nearly died!!!
I took the job :) It feels so good to know they really wanted ME, as opposed to the other job who didn't, they just got caught in a tough situation and needed someone ASAP.
So I now have a spanking new job to start in a weeks time and am really looking forward to it. I just hope I meet their expectations which are bound to be very high now!
In other news, we got a dog just before I left the RSPCA. Her name is Maddy and she is a bit of a bitser. Officially she is listed as a Terrier X, but X'd with about 100 other breeds I think. She is a sweetheart though, she came from a cruelty case where the owners had over 100 dogs, but couldn't feed or care for them all and so let them run wild in packs and hunt like wild animals, rendering them feral and rather dangerous. I think Maddy must have been bottom of the pack and so is a timid shy little dog who just wants constant love and affection. She had mammary gland cancerous lumps removed so couldn't be adopted through the normal channels, so we fostered her! She is fitting right in, the cats ignore her and Amelia loves her!
Speaking of the girl child, she will be 2 very soon and is a source of constant amazement to us. Particularly last night when she started singing along with Antisocial by Anthrax in the car hehehehehehe.
I need to go and do some housework and write a speech for my friend's 30th tonight, the dreaded formal that we had to buy new clothes for *sigh*! Hope everyone is well and enjoying life!
Work went from bad to worse over the few weeks after I last wrote and eventually I just resigned. I didn't have another job to go to, I was broke but if I stayed another minute longer I was going to become a basket case. Once i had handed in myr esignation I smiled, really smiled, for the first time in weeks and weeks. It felt so much better to have no security, nothing to fall back on, than it did to be gainfully employed by a psychotic bitch.
I gave a weeks notice, resigned on the Monday morning and finished on the Friday afternoon, I felt bad for the girls, leaving them with so much work to do for the gala ball, but I couldn't have stayed longer once I resigned, it felt so wrong being there.
I already miss the job and the friends I made there like crazy, but I made the right decision. I applied for tons of jobs once I was done and I ended up with 4 to choose from. Two were pretty easy to say no to, one paid well but was way too far to travel and I wouldn't see Amelia enough, and the other didn't pay enough and the hours were too long for the amount of pay.
The third one I had decided to take even though the pay was far lower than I wanted because it sounded like a great opportunity and had so much potential for development. They called, offered me the job and I said great! Then the same day I got an email from a job I went for a month ago and didn't get. At the time I was devastated as it was a perfect job for me and I was really excited about it and felt like I had a really good chance. Now they wanted me for the job, the other person didn't end up working out. I was so torn! I really wanted this job, it paid more than the other one, it offered 6 weeks annual leave, leave loading, shorter work hours on school holidays.. but it was only a maternity leave position and dammit, I wasn't their first choice! For all I know I was 10th or even 100th! I spent hours on the phone to mum, Ash, my brother, trying to decide.
In the end I decided to take the job, even though I wasn't their first choice... but instinct told me to tell the other job my decision not to take it first. Immediately she was on the phone asking me how they could change my mind! I told her I didn't think they could as they had been pretty clear in the interview that what I asked for as a minimum salary was above what they had budgeted to pay for the role... and even if they matched the offer I had on the table, the other job still had 6 weeks leave etc. An hour or so later she was back on the phone with an $8k increase in their offer to account for extra leave and loading!!!! I nearly died!!!
I took the job :) It feels so good to know they really wanted ME, as opposed to the other job who didn't, they just got caught in a tough situation and needed someone ASAP.
So I now have a spanking new job to start in a weeks time and am really looking forward to it. I just hope I meet their expectations which are bound to be very high now!
In other news, we got a dog just before I left the RSPCA. Her name is Maddy and she is a bit of a bitser. Officially she is listed as a Terrier X, but X'd with about 100 other breeds I think. She is a sweetheart though, she came from a cruelty case where the owners had over 100 dogs, but couldn't feed or care for them all and so let them run wild in packs and hunt like wild animals, rendering them feral and rather dangerous. I think Maddy must have been bottom of the pack and so is a timid shy little dog who just wants constant love and affection. She had mammary gland cancerous lumps removed so couldn't be adopted through the normal channels, so we fostered her! She is fitting right in, the cats ignore her and Amelia loves her!
Speaking of the girl child, she will be 2 very soon and is a source of constant amazement to us. Particularly last night when she started singing along with Antisocial by Anthrax in the car hehehehehehe.
I need to go and do some housework and write a speech for my friend's 30th tonight, the dreaded formal that we had to buy new clothes for *sigh*! Hope everyone is well and enjoying life!