Well, hello again. I would have written this sooner, but work consumed my life big time this week. That’s kind of a fun sentence to say after so much unemployment. It’s not necessarily the most fun sentence to live, though.
Basically, after three (give or take a week or two) months of unemployment, I am back and working in Admissions. After this weekend, I will be traveling for the majority of the time until around Thanksgiving. Things will slow down then, and I will know very shortly after that whether or not I will be employed full-time.
Oh, did I not mention this job was temporary? Or that it’s kind of a competition? It is both of those things. However, temporary employment is still employment. Temporary employment still allows me to look for jobs and find something a little more in line with my career plans (if necessary). Temporary employment still provides a paycheck. The added element of competition just fires me up. I don’t know if y’all knew this or not, but I am a pretty competitive person, and I’m ready to rock this job.
There are a lot of advantages to this job — working at a place I know better than almost anyone, being familiar with the line of work, having good coworkers, and being paid to travel and meet people. There are some disadvantages, too, but they’re much less imporant than the advantages.
The only thing is, it kind of feels like the beginning episodes of Grey’s Anatomy. I’m trying to get settled into being the Cristina of the group, but it’s an uneasy feeling. I’ve always been a Meredith — equally talented but less cut throat and more apt to being emotional and letting my personal life affect some things — but that’s just not it.
Well, maybe I’m not that cut throat …
