I'm On Top And You're Trying To Stop Me Now...
I came into work today to an email from one of my old bosses at ILVA.
You don't understand how much I loved working there. I loved the work, and loved the people in the office so much it meant that when I woke up in the morning, my first thoughts were never 'shit... gotta go to work today!'
I got made redundant there 4 months ago after they moved the AP function to Denmark.
I was devastated. But turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Got a new job in an accountancy firm, and everything is going great here. Loving the more advanced job I am doing, and they are even paying for and organising my AAT study.
Well today they emailed to tell me that they were making changes again, and the AP function was moving back to England, and wanted to ask me back before advertising a posistion.
It killed me to, but I had to turn them down.
Despite the fact that I'd kill to be working with Lucy, Mei, Richard and Mark around me again, as me Dad so eloquent put it. ILVA was a job. Tenon is a career.
I hate money. If money wasn't an issue in life, I'd be back there in a heartbeat. But money basically rules 90% of the decisions in your life. And it's not even that ILVA would offer me less money, it's more the fact that where I am I have the chance to earn more money when I am older.
But I guess it's a sign of the times for myself. I'm not a kid anymore. And where all I want is money to be able to go out drinking with my mates, to the gigs I want to, and the DVD's I wanna buy, that's not good enough anymore.
Rather than living in the moment like I have done all my life, I had to start living for, and preparing for the future. As those dreaded three M's gets closer every day:
Mortgage!
Marriage!
Maternity!
They may be a long way off still, but with people around me now starting to do those things, it gives you the wake up and makes you think of these things.
On a related topic, been invited to my Nephew's Christening next month.
Haven't decided whether to honour him with my presence however, after being told I had nothing to do, as I was overlooked for Godfather. Livid! ha ha!
Of course what Mo doesn't realise, is that by picking Joe and Shaun, he has jinxed them, and much like mine and my brothers godparents who weren't family, will lose interest and dissapear after 2 years.