updates
Ok, so I am being good and following through with my updates...
Number one update: I got a new job!! Yaaaayyyy! I just read some of my older posts and it was really obvious how much I hated the old one. Not being there anymore is a huge improvement. James and I had been talking for a long time about getting married and leaving Florida, but for some reason it's just not happening as quickly as we thought it would. It's just a lot to tackle--a wedding, new jobs for both of us, and a move. We get easily overwhelmed and then everything just stalls. So I finally decided that like it or not it could be another 6 months or even another year here. I was NOT willing to stay in that job even another month. So I started applying like crazy and found something. I've been at my new job since June 23.
The new job is ok. It's not the best in the world but honestly it's a night and day difference from being where I was before. I'm the assistant registrar at a private regional career college. It's for profit and there is definitely some element where they rip off students who could be getting the same degree at a community college. That kind of bugs me... but then it also serves a legit purpose for people who truly benefit from it (and it is fully accredited and everything so it's not like a scam), and anyway, in the registrar's office I don't really have anything to do with that side of it. I basically just schedule classes and prepare transcripts, verify enrollment, and stuff like that. It's definitely not a long term career but it's enough to tide me over until we leave Florida. I can't even tell you how much the foundation I worked at before was ruining my life. It just got under my skin, I couldn't desensitize myself to all the horrible crap there. It was bringing me down all the time. Now I feel free! (Even with an hour's more driving every day, less pay, far less time off, and worse benefits.)
Actually, my supervisor/the person I share all the workload with, the registrar, just got another job offer and will be leaving in a week. So it may not be very low stress for a while... not exactly what I was hoping for. It'll be really really busy for me by myself and also rough because there's still a lot i don't know and everyone will be looking at me to get it done. I'll probably be tired all the time. But I'm not letting myself worry about it too much because there's nothing I can do other than just put in a full day's work. Since in the back of my mind I know I won't be there too long anyway, I honestly don't even really care... which is kind of nice.
James and I are actually trying in earnest to plan our wedding. We decided finally that we would like to do it in Ithaca, ideally sometime in the fall. Of course, now because we want to do it so quickly we're running into trouble with everything being booked. But we want to keep it simple/low key and I'm sure we'll nail down a location soon. We're working really hard on it. Ideally, we'd like to get married in October or November and move out of Florida by the end of this year. I know that's ambitious and we won't be heartbroken if it doesn't happen that quickly, but we needed to just set a goal that would really get us motivated.
More later..
Number one update: I got a new job!! Yaaaayyyy! I just read some of my older posts and it was really obvious how much I hated the old one. Not being there anymore is a huge improvement. James and I had been talking for a long time about getting married and leaving Florida, but for some reason it's just not happening as quickly as we thought it would. It's just a lot to tackle--a wedding, new jobs for both of us, and a move. We get easily overwhelmed and then everything just stalls. So I finally decided that like it or not it could be another 6 months or even another year here. I was NOT willing to stay in that job even another month. So I started applying like crazy and found something. I've been at my new job since June 23.
The new job is ok. It's not the best in the world but honestly it's a night and day difference from being where I was before. I'm the assistant registrar at a private regional career college. It's for profit and there is definitely some element where they rip off students who could be getting the same degree at a community college. That kind of bugs me... but then it also serves a legit purpose for people who truly benefit from it (and it is fully accredited and everything so it's not like a scam), and anyway, in the registrar's office I don't really have anything to do with that side of it. I basically just schedule classes and prepare transcripts, verify enrollment, and stuff like that. It's definitely not a long term career but it's enough to tide me over until we leave Florida. I can't even tell you how much the foundation I worked at before was ruining my life. It just got under my skin, I couldn't desensitize myself to all the horrible crap there. It was bringing me down all the time. Now I feel free! (Even with an hour's more driving every day, less pay, far less time off, and worse benefits.)
Actually, my supervisor/the person I share all the workload with, the registrar, just got another job offer and will be leaving in a week. So it may not be very low stress for a while... not exactly what I was hoping for. It'll be really really busy for me by myself and also rough because there's still a lot i don't know and everyone will be looking at me to get it done. I'll probably be tired all the time. But I'm not letting myself worry about it too much because there's nothing I can do other than just put in a full day's work. Since in the back of my mind I know I won't be there too long anyway, I honestly don't even really care... which is kind of nice.
James and I are actually trying in earnest to plan our wedding. We decided finally that we would like to do it in Ithaca, ideally sometime in the fall. Of course, now because we want to do it so quickly we're running into trouble with everything being booked. But we want to keep it simple/low key and I'm sure we'll nail down a location soon. We're working really hard on it. Ideally, we'd like to get married in October or November and move out of Florida by the end of this year. I know that's ambitious and we won't be heartbroken if it doesn't happen that quickly, but we needed to just set a goal that would really get us motivated.
More later..