We have our first ‘hearty’ question! YAY!
Hi Shannon,
I have recently been introduced to your blog and have really enjoyed it. I have recently been laid off from my job and am at a kind of crossroads, my company has offered to hire me back on in August (when my position regains funding – weird budget sched.) and as much as I loved it, I am not sure that I want to keep on the same path.
I graduated with a degree in Comm. Studies focusing on gender studies and worked for a sustainable living community resource guide for a year. It turned out to be a lot of sales (which I really hated) and the owners were not all that nice. Toward the end of that year I got married to a wonderful guy and realized that I wanted to start our married life with a job I didn’t hate, so one day my supervisor was being quite rude to me over the phone and I informed her I had some thinking to do and didn’t appreciate the way I was being treated. I sent my resignation letter the next morning (after a lot of tears and a glasses of wine:)), sans new job. My husband and I took a month and traveled to N. Wisconsin (his parents cabin) and Illinois to hang out with his family. When we got back I found my next job which I loved, and was there almost a year. I was the Rebate Administrator for the city we live in where I worked with the elderly, disabled, and low-income population. I really enjoy helping people and I can start working the same job in August again but I am not sure I want to take the easy road… I am a runner, gardener (as much as I can in our apt.), a local foodie, and all around health nut! I just felt like some insightful questions, like the ones you wrote, could really help me identify what steps to take next.
– Confused in Colorado
Read my answer to ‘Confused’ after the jump!
