16th
April
2008
A whole new world
For a while now I’ve had my eye on a different department in my office. Problem has been this department has been under terrible management. I hate to say that about any area of my office, but sometimes you can’t avoid the truth. It seems when there was a position available the management stunk, then when they had great leadership there were no spots open. Ahh, isn’t that how it always goes?This department is comprised of several folks I worked with once upon a time in another lifetime. It just so happens one such person (who actually used to be my supervisor in that other lifetime) decided to leave the company. This is a huge loss for us, but I know she will be much happier where she’s going. I went to give her my congratulations and she asked me if I would be applying for her position. I’d like to say I hadn’t given it a passing any thought, but I had. Not much more than that, though.
My old Sup told me when she gave notice her Director asked if she knew of anyone who could fill her shoes. I was floored when she told me she recommended me. I later found out each person in the department had gone to the Director and recommended me for the job. I was and still am very humbled by this. I think we get used to being stuck in our ruts and go to work every day doing our jobs and don’t realize it’s being noticed by others.
The Job had yet to be posted by Human Resources and word got back to me that the Director had already been referring in staff meetings about tasks that would be assigned to me. Say what??? I hadn’t even expressed serious interest in this yet, at least not outwardly. A few days later one of my friends in that department asked if we could ‘take a walk’ and then began giving me the third degree about applying. I hummed and hawwed, asked some questions about it. She knows me very well. We are within months of each other as far as seniority. She said this job would be a perfect fit for me. Probably more so than any I’ve held in the past 20 years. This will be a complete 180 from what I currently do. Right now my job is quite public. The decisions we make, often end up in the press. We do so many GOOD things but the press doesn’t care about that, they only care about the getting a story and not even an accurate one at that. Ugh, that’s a whole ’nother blog altogether! I digress. The new job would tailor toward my analytical side. The side that likes to do projects and problem solve. The part of me that likes to find out why things aren’t working and fix them. Am I crazy? How could I NOT want this? Oh, yeah and jeans every Friday and after my training period the opportunity to work from home once a week. I applied for the job and it was the most unusual interview I’ve ever been in. I felt like the Director was selling his department to ME. Really, talk about flattered! This never happens to me. Ever! I really just sit at my desk and do my job. After some salary negotiation I accepted the position. Next came telling my bosses…They took well. Although they already knew. It’s amazing the things that happen on the back end that us little peons don’t know about. My director and my new director had been talking all week! Who knew? My current boss told me he told the new one that he wished he could say something bad about me so that he wouldn’t want me, but he couldn’t think of anything. I asked if he warned him that I was stubborned, pig headed, short tempered and loud? He said yeah and he wanted you anyway!
So, I’ll be ‘transitioning’ into a completely new role. I mean completely, this will be a whole new world. I’m ready for it though. In the upcoming weeks I’ll be training my current boss on how to do my job while learning my new one. Wow. This will be busy, busy, busy.
A close friend of mine introduced me to this song. Lately it’s just fit my emotional state of mind right now. I have such Spring fever, it’s hard not wishing you had someone to share it with. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t throw pity parties for myself (at least not often) and I’m going to do my best not to start now. What I’m going to try to do, is what this song says. Enjoy life! I’m going to enjoy who I am. I’ve never been someone who thinks their life is validated by a man (thank God! lol), and I’m not going to start now.
Take a listen to the song. It’s great. Don’t Forget to Dance by The Kinks
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