By the time you read this, I will have started my new job! Yes, you read correctly, I’m going back to work. Why, you ask? Well, when we moved here almost 2 years ago, I quit my job in Atlanta to move here & was planning to stay home indefinitely. I’ve enjoyed staying home quite a bit & it allowed me to get so many projects done around the house with decorating & gardening. And that’s been fun. But, I really don’t have enough to keep me busy all the time, some days I’m bored, and I’d love to make some extra money. I’m not raising kids….but, we’ve got kids in college right now & extra money would be nice. So, I decided to market myself, get my resume polished up, & see what happened. The recruiter sent me on 2 interviews & I landed the second job I interviewed for that same day & got the salary I was looking for. So, I think it was meant to be. I’m going to work for a small privately-owned asset management company. They have several smaller companies under the umbrella & this company manages all the smaller companies. I’ll be working for the President & the HR Manager. I’ll be doing all sorts of things like newsletters, helping with a charitable foundation, company events, & lots of administrative details. I’ve just started & so far this week, we are having breakfast brought in on Thursday, I’m helping facilitate the company’s Open House in September, which will be a full-blown catered event & very nice and planning the details on a fishing trip for the guys in Nov. So far, I’m really enjoying it & off to a good start! It will help me keep my skills up to date, I’ll feel more productive, & earn a decent salary too. I’ve been spending way too much time on the computer & that’s not all that productive, as I’m sure many of you feel too. One day, I’ll devote more time to my creative endeavors & hopefully get something going with decorating, but in the meantime, this will do just fine. I’m not quite ready to be a retired old lady yet! I’ve worked all my life as an Administrative Assistant in many large corporate companies & done very well with it. And, this will be the same type position (only in a privately owned company).
So, I’m going to join all you bloggers who work fulltime AND blog. How do you do it?? I’m going to need some pointers on that. I’m sure it gets a bit more difficult to do both, but I plan to keep blogging along. So, I hope you’ll keep reading…even if I’m not out & about as much as I have been, I hope to have some interesting things to talk about & some good pictures & projects to share. I will just have more to juggle now. And, I will not have nearly as much time to come & visit all of you as much as I would like, so I hope you’ll understand that part too.
Fantastic! Congratulations Rhoda. Sounds like neat company to work for. I know what you mean about too much time of the computer – maybe I need to go and get a job?!?!
Have a wonderful first week and I look forward to your updates – when you have time!
Blessings!
Good Luck to you Rhoda on your new job, it’s sounds like it’s perfect for you. I do hope you will find to blog.
Keep us posted! Hugs
Thanks, girls! You’re all so great. I’m having a really good week, just trying to adjust to the getting up early schedule again, but so far it’s not so bad. You’d think since I have worked all my life (except for this past year and 1/2) that it would be like riding a bike. I’m sure I’ll get used to it all again. It feels good to get out & be in the workplace again & feel like I’m contributing. I think sometimes when you stay home & don’t use your brain as much, you get sort of sluggish & stale. So, I want to keep my brain working well!
I’ll be sure & keep you all posted as things progress & I’ll try to keep things interesting around here too. I definitely plan to keep blogging. I just hope I can keep thinking up interesting topics that you’ll all enjoy, so please keep on visiting me!!
I’m not going anywhere!
xo,
Rhoda
How exciting for you Rhoda! They’re lucky to have someone as wonderful as you joining their company.
I work full time as a bank manager and attend a jillion events after work hours but I still find time to blog so I’m sure you will too. I don’t have time to visit all the blogs I would like to but I’m quite content with the wonderful circle of blogger friends I’ve had the priviledge to get to know…and maybe even meet someday.
Congratulations! I hope this is a fullfilling and wonderful new season of your life…though don’t desert us here in blogland, we love ya too much! (((hugs)))
Rhoda, that is exciting news! Change is always good. I work, and sometimes find it difficult to find time to read blogs. But I always have my favorites 🙂
Congrats!
Sandy
Rhoda~ It sounds perfect! Now you will be able to dress up and go to lunch… and fight 280 traffic like the rest of the world.
It will be a new adventure!
Congratulations, Rhoda!
Congrats on the job! But yard sale season in Alabama is year round. It only slows down a bit in December, January and February and not completely then. There will always be Saturdays and Friday’s on your way to work and during lunch hour…..
Congratulations Rhoda…and Best of Luck in your new job…it sounds like a perfect fit for you…we will miss you not being able to post as often…but when you do we will all feel blessed…enjoy your new adventure…
blessings…
Teresa
LivingTheLife
Rhoda, congratulations on your new job. It sounds taylor made for you. I hope you really enjoy it and find the adjustment easy.
How exciting! It sounds as if the job was tailor-made for you! I work at home, editing on the computer, and I know how lonely it can get being home all day. I envy you getting out amongst people!
Best of luck with you new job, and I know you won’t have quite as much time for us, but I’ll look forward to your posts as always.
Best wishes to you on your new job Rhond. I hope the company that hired you knows what a “jewel” they found. Blessings to you.
Well it sounds exciting to me! I work but blog when I feel like it or want to. You will have to learn to do the same. YOU will have to keep us updated on your job….it sounds, well, BLOG-WORTHY!! LOL!
Wow, 2 years! It sure doesn’t seem possible.
Congrats on the new job. It sounds like such a great position to not only do what you’ve done before but learn new skills as well. They will be so happy they chose you!
Donna
Congrats Rhoda!
I know what you mean about time on the computer…sometimes I feel it is my job and I mean that in a nice way. A job I love.
Stay in touch.
Hugs!
Kat
Best of luck in the new job. Sometimes I wish I could at least work part time, I think my brain has really turned to mush in the last 3 1/2 years!
BTW I went to a yard sale today and found a cute bunny candle holder and thought of you. I came so close to buying it but I kept think I was copying your style. Now that I’m home I see the perfect place for it in my living room. Ahhhh!
Sounds like the perfect job for you!! Keep us updated on how it goes!!
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Good luck in your new job. I’m sure you’ll be great! It sounds like a wonderful position.