Okay, Time for a ‘grown-up’ job!

It’s been a busy couple of weeks.

After a full year of subbing and then over half this year subbing and job hunting, I start a new JOB in TWO days. I’m feeling just a bit in over my head and it’s not helping that we have a day trip to Chicago planned for tomorrow (theater tickets so we can’t postpone it) and I’m fighting a cold.

This JOB I’m starting I actually interviewed for last June. They ended up hiring someone else and when he took another job they readvertised it in December. I jumped on reapplying, but figured it was a long shot (it’s a government job in another county and I’m not willing to move – at least not immediately).

and waited (they were accepting applications until mid-January)

and waited

and waited…and applied for other jobs. One of which asked me to come interview with them a couple of weeks ago. It was doing sales, but the base salary was nearly what I made as a sub. And they offered me a job – dependent on passing a background check and a drug test. And with nothing else, I said to go ahead.

Only to come home to a phone call from the JOB explaining why they were not ready to precede, but that they were interested. They’d need two more weeks (they thought) before they’d be ready to consider candidates. (It’s a government job, two weeks has to be optimistic.)

Okay, no guarantees there. It sounded good, but I was not going to lose out on a job waiting to see if they would hire me. And then the sales job couldn’t get their act together and delayed and delayed doing what they needed. Wonderful.

During which I got called for an interview with a local car dealership to be their customer service/sales person handling email and internet contacts. It was to be a new position and what became clear quickly was that they really didn’t know what they wanted and wouldn’t be making any sort of decision for a few weeks…Okay.

And the two weeks ended last Thursday with another phone call.

They had reached a decision, could I start on Monday?

ummm, YES! (I don’t think they would have appreciated me screaming into the phone, but I wanted to.)

So I don’t want to be clear where I’m going to be working and for whom because to be honest I don’t want this searchable, but I’ll say that it is administrative and is working in environmental conservation.

When we finished homeschooling nearly two years ago I had no idea of what I wanted to do now that it was time for me to ‘grow up’. This job is a nice fit to both my pre-motherhood education and skills and to my current interests and abilities.

And yes, I’m pretty pysched about it.

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