The End

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that my search for employment has terminated as of today!  Much to my surprise I received a call a little after 5pm and was offered the position.  I of course accepted without hesitation!  I still have a little bit of a vacation left.  My start date will be Wednesday, May 9th.  I did have to take a pay cut but it was very small.

While this position I am going into is uncharted territory for me, I will give it my best shot.  I hope and pray it works out to be a great opportunity.  I am over joyed, excited, nervous and can’t wait to start.

I will learn all about benefits and probably have tons of paper work to fill out next week.  They did offer to pay for my parking for the day, but I explained that I will be taking public transportation aka mass transit.  It’s the easiest and best way, that way no hassles with parking and not a lot of extra driving.  My commute will be exactly the same as it was on my last job!  I will have to walk farther to get to the office, but it’s not like I can’t use a little more exercise and I know my body will get used to it.

I do have an interview set for tomorrow morning, I see no reason to not go.  You never know how things are going to turn out, so it’s good to have a backup plan.  This will thankfully be my very last interview.

Thank you to Jude, ., and others who left comments.  I know you all were pulling for me and I appreciate your kind words, thoughts and prayers.  I owe you big time!  Your words of encouragement help keep me going when I wanted to quit.

This was certainly a very down time and 18 months is way too long to look for work.  Everything happens for a reason, despite the fact we might not know why.  While there was much stress during this time and my finances suffered, I have managed to break free from Credit Card Debt so something good came out of all of this.  Now I can stock pile aka save money like no tomorrow, so that God forbid if I am ever in this position again, I will have funds on hand without creating tax liability and incurring penalties.  I pray that no one else has to walk through the same water I did.  I know that I was not the only person on the planet looking for work but it does get lonely and tiresome.

Tonight is the first night in a long time where I am not searching for ads to reply to.  It does feel strange and the only thing I can thing to do is enjoy my free time and spend it with the kids.  They are going to miss me and life for them will change.  I just hope they can all endure the stress this will create for them.  I will be taking this extra time to try to adjust my sleeping schedule so that it’s not so foreign to my body.  All though on the first day I will be so juiced up with adrenaline that it probably won’t matter how much sleep I have.  Next Tuesday night I probably won’t sleep that much, but here’s one time when I hope I am wrong!

Thank you all again so very much.  Your friendship, readership and just knowing that there are folks out there that care means the world to me.  Thanks be to God as well, even though I doubted God still came through.  It was at the 11th hour but it showed me that all things are possible, no matter how bad the situation looks, a ray of sunshine is around the corner!

We are breathing easier here with a huge sigh of relief!  I will talk with you peeps later!  God Bless.