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Well, I'm back. Thanks to westwindschild for the celebratory post yesterday. I guess an explanation is in order. And I'm oh-so-happy to supply it!
I've stayed away from posting most of the summer because I've been quite depressed with my job and life in general. I've been working hard on taking the next step toward improving life for me and the lads and Dog and Cat and was afraid to jinx anything I had in the works by talking about it. But yesterday, after nearly two years of searching for just the right situation, and one month to the day since I first interviewed for The Perfect Situation, I got the good news I'd been waiting so long to hear: I GOT THE JOB!!!
For the first time in years and years and YEARS I feel like things are finally going to get better. I know I'm not the only mother who's had to do this, but I pretty much put my career on hold nearly 17 years ago when I had my first child. Attempts to rejoin the working world proved unsatisfactory as I was relegated to part-time jobs that never quite paid enough to get by. I grew weary of beating off the debt alligators that always seemed to be nipping at my heels. At times I feared that it would never change, that I'd be forever fighting just to make ends meet, that the bills would never be timely paid, the lads and I would be forced to a life of eating noodles and rice and peanut butter sandwiches until they were old enough to be out on their own, and then what kind of a lesson would they have learned from Dear Old Mom?
Mercifully, that time has reached an end. The new job is everything I've been searching for, everything I once had, pre-kids, and more. My take home pay will jump by a good $600 a MONTH. The difference this will make in every aspect of our lives is staggering. I can hardly believe my good fortune in finding this new opportunity, and amazingly, it came to me through someone I'd worked with more than 20 years ago when I was just starting out in my field. He remembered me, I remembered him, he had great respect for people I'd worked for then and now and fought hard to get me, and even harder to get approved the salary I demanded in order to return to the full-time workforce. My gratitude knows no bounds. I will be forever grateful to him for going out on such a limb for me. Loyalty goes a long, long way in this business.
So, the long and the short of it is that the timing was FINALLY right for this move. The position was FINALLY right - did I mention the office is a scant TWO MILES from my home? Here in the heat of a stifling Deep South Summer I can see into the not-so-distant future when the weather will turn cool again and I'll be able to walk to work, getting in my exercise morning and afternoon and getting into fabulous shape while I'm at it. I can see a bright future for the first time in many, many years and I'm jazzed as never before.
There, now. That was worth the wait, no?
I've stayed away from posting most of the summer because I've been quite depressed with my job and life in general. I've been working hard on taking the next step toward improving life for me and the lads and Dog and Cat and was afraid to jinx anything I had in the works by talking about it. But yesterday, after nearly two years of searching for just the right situation, and one month to the day since I first interviewed for The Perfect Situation, I got the good news I'd been waiting so long to hear: I GOT THE JOB!!!
For the first time in years and years and YEARS I feel like things are finally going to get better. I know I'm not the only mother who's had to do this, but I pretty much put my career on hold nearly 17 years ago when I had my first child. Attempts to rejoin the working world proved unsatisfactory as I was relegated to part-time jobs that never quite paid enough to get by. I grew weary of beating off the debt alligators that always seemed to be nipping at my heels. At times I feared that it would never change, that I'd be forever fighting just to make ends meet, that the bills would never be timely paid, the lads and I would be forced to a life of eating noodles and rice and peanut butter sandwiches until they were old enough to be out on their own, and then what kind of a lesson would they have learned from Dear Old Mom?
Mercifully, that time has reached an end. The new job is everything I've been searching for, everything I once had, pre-kids, and more. My take home pay will jump by a good $600 a MONTH. The difference this will make in every aspect of our lives is staggering. I can hardly believe my good fortune in finding this new opportunity, and amazingly, it came to me through someone I'd worked with more than 20 years ago when I was just starting out in my field. He remembered me, I remembered him, he had great respect for people I'd worked for then and now and fought hard to get me, and even harder to get approved the salary I demanded in order to return to the full-time workforce. My gratitude knows no bounds. I will be forever grateful to him for going out on such a limb for me. Loyalty goes a long, long way in this business.
So, the long and the short of it is that the timing was FINALLY right for this move. The position was FINALLY right - did I mention the office is a scant TWO MILES from my home? Here in the heat of a stifling Deep South Summer I can see into the not-so-distant future when the weather will turn cool again and I'll be able to walk to work, getting in my exercise morning and afternoon and getting into fabulous shape while I'm at it. I can see a bright future for the first time in many, many years and I'm jazzed as never before.
There, now. That was worth the wait, no?