meet the new boss
Once I get a job I tend to stick around for a while. I worked at the Youth Shelter for 12 years, took a part time job for 2 years while I was finishing up school, moved out here, switched careers from social services to technology and then worked my next job for 7 years.
When that company lost its funding and I got laid off , you can imagine that I was a little outta practice with searching for a job. And I’d like to attribute the first job I landed to that inexperience. It was a programming job with an ad firm that I didn’t realize was over run with born again Christians, until a couple weeks into the gig, when the owner stood up at the holiday dinner and gave a long and enthusiastic “in Jesus name” prayer. Holiday my ass – it was definitely a Christmas party, and the look on Rachel’s face could have killed me. As soon as we left and got into the car she told me to quit. I did; it just me another 4 months to leave.
But the timing of my exit was great, because at the point I’d finally had enough of the obvious mismatch Rejuvenation was looking for a front end web programmer. Talk about night and day. I couldn’t have found a bitter fit. I love what I do, I really enjoy the folks I work with, and I feel good about the company. With any luck, Ill be around for another long spell.
welcome back! glad to hear about the great match with the new job.
and sorry things didn’t work out with rachel. time (and new possibility) is the great healer – everything else is just words, from my limited experience.
thanks pep for such kind words. i’m finding that dealing with heartbreak is practice, just like everything else in life. attention and awareness and compassion and curiosity. one thing i noticed last night was all this angry energy. so i went for a run to see if i could move it around. getting to a place where i can be even minutely curious about unwanted feelings or thoughts is creating some space for something different to happen. it’s interesting.