Alright, blog #2 in the day of blogging. A couple weeks ago I had to make a difficult decision regarding my career. While I’ve come to terms with it, and think I made the best decision for myself and my future, I still don’t like that I feel like I was backed into it. For those of you who don’t know, I was working for the Susan G. Komen foundation for the past 9 months, but only as a contractor. I’d been trying to prove myself to my new manager who’d been hired a few months after I started, but he continued to delay hiring me with various insubstantial reasons, usually ending up with the fallback that his “gut feeling” was that I wasn’t ready. A recruiter I worked with a year ago while I was unemployed contacted me after one such conversation almost a month ago, and told me he had a job lined up that I’d be great at. I decided to pursue it, and in less than 8 days I had been on 2 interviews and received an offer. It was decision time.
Archive for the “Work” CategoryI’ve been at the new job for almost 3 months now, and I’m still loving it. My first impression of my manager and coworkers has turned out to be mostly accurate, so I’m glad about that. Everyone here is really nice, though no matter how nice people are there will always be one or two people who insist on causing drama, but I just smile and ignore it. The environment here is entirely different than what I’m used to from other jobs, and in all the best ways. After working here for almost 3 months, I can honestly say that I hope I’m here for many years to come. Okay everyone, it’s time to lay down some groundwork when it comes to work behavior. I was out of the corporate world for almost a year (stupid economy making it difficult to get a job) but now I’m back (hooray!) and am being reminded on a daily basis of all the little things that used to drive me insane. So now I’ll share them with you! Today was the first day at the new job, and as of this morning I couldn’t decide what to feel. Nervous? Excited? Scared? Prepared? I didn’t know. I only knew the bare minimum of the job description, and had never even been inside the building since I’d been hired based on a phone interview and a recommendation from a friend who already works there. I woke up early this morning to make sure I had time to shave and eat breakfast and still have a few minutes to sit still before heading off to work for the first time in 8 months. When I pulled into the parking lot this morning I was ready. I had every intention of facing the day head on and making it great. I started using a professional recruiter a little over a month ago to try and help me find a job. Searching on my own was getting me nowhere; 4 months of unemployment and not a single interview. The only offer I’d had was someone wanting me to drop out of school to work for beans. Umm…no thanks. The recruiter got a phone interview with a very reputable finance company in Dallas almost right away, but after the phone interview they never showed any interest and I was back to feeling hopeless again. Soon after he managed to get me an in-person interview with yet another reputable financial company in Dallas and it went great. |
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