Doing Better

Some days are good and some days are bad. Lately though I'd found myself having more bad ones than good ones. However, like most downward swings do . . . hopefully, eventually they move upwards again.

I found a new job!!!!

There's a part of me that thinks I was damn lucky because sometimes finding a job takes luck, but the honest truth is that finding a new job takes a lot of hard work. So I really want to shout Oprah-style, "IIIIII DIIIIIID ITTTTTT!"

I hustled.

I sent out a ridiculous amount of resumes to job openings, recruiters, former bosses . . . former bosses that I would rather have rather used my tongue to walk on hot coals than to ever speak to. I made a pathetic, ineffective plea to a former trainer I used to work with whom I hadn't spoken to in months. I did a little worst case scenario thinking, but I didn't get mired in it.

From the time the FDIC took over Colonial to the time I got my job offer it took five weeks. A few days after the shock wore off I updated my resume and created two different versions of it. A functional resume and a regular chronological resume. I wrote cover letter after cover letter, cold-contact prospecting letters, I made finding a new job my full-time job.

Did I get lucky?

I got lucky that in this economy I found a job doing what I want to be doing at a slightly higher pay. But, I was ready for it when I found it.

I DID THIS.

Budgeting

The bank I work was seized and sold, and while right now I have a job there is the possibility I will be let go. I'm not entirely sure what my department's odds are, but just in case I'm sending out resumes and talking to everyone I know about finding a new job.

In light of this, we have temporarily stopped working on the kitchen renovation. Steve and I have agreed that right now it's more important for us to save money rather than spend money it on home improvement.

Then I went out and got a pedicure.

Because I suck.