Things have been so crazy lately. I started a new job, which I LOVE!!!! The company is fantastic, the people are great, and the job itself is amazing. It has been so long since I actually enjoyed going to work, and had fun while I was there. What is the job you ask, I am the Office Manager for a major governmental construction company beginning a new project on the arsenal. We have just started with the construction phase, and I am so excited.

We have also begun basketball season, which unfortunately with Graeme and Aegwyn, we have only been to one game.

I am very proud of myself, I have almost completed my Christmas shopping. I have had my tree up since last Sunday, and all of my presents are wrapped. We, as in Micah, Noah and I, are getting ready to start baking cookies. Noah has requested sugar cookies and snickerdoodles, Geoff has requested white chocolate macadamia and mint chocolate, and I want peanut butter and chocolate. Who wins? Everyone, by the time we are through making cookies I will probably have 10 dozen cookies… hopefully those will last us until next weekend:)

I have been casually searching for a job for about a month now, but I guess it is time to really step up the search. I have been online submitting resumes for the last hour, and suppose I will continue to do this today as long as I have places left to search. I am registered on Monster, Career Builder, and with every major company in my area. I have scoured the job boards and the newspapers. I have a couple of leads that seem promising, but who knows. With what I do, it is very hard to find a job, the market is so over-saturated with admin and accounting people and HR reps. Only time will tell.

Oh and I have a big meeting this morning, can’t give any details yet, but as soon as I can I will.

As you know my job will soon be ending, and even if it wasn’t I really don’t want to stay here. So what do I do about this? I started filling out applications and submitting resumes almost a month ago. I have had a few interviews, but nothing is coming of it yet. This past Monday I finally broke down and went to see the people that I used to work for, thus selling my soul.

I know most people aren’t really familiar with what happened at this company, so let me fill  you in. I had worked for them for over a year and a half, basically killing myself to help keep them afloat. I usually worked through my lunch breaks, and went above and beyond what most people would have for the amount of money and crap I had to put up with. I never had a single complaint or problem while I was there. Out of the blue last July they fired me. I dropped a column from a spreadsheet during the printing process. That’s it I forgot to reset my print area, and got canned for it. This was made even worse because we had just found out that I was pregnant again, so I lost my insurance and income. Now don’t get me wrong, I loved my job there, but the people are freaking nuts. Husband and wife owners who don’t agree on how the business should be run, construction workers with bad attitudes, general contractors with even worse attitudes and business practices… makes for one very stressed out me.

Well, since jobs aren’t seeming to pan out as fast as I would like right now, I went to see them and asked for my job back. I think they are going to make me an offer, but am I nuts for even thinking of going back to a place that treated me so bad and kept me so stressed out? Probably, but I think I can get them to hire me back for a dramatically increased salary. If not, I guess I will just keep looking because it isn’t worth the stress to work there without a ton of money coming from it.

Things are looking up. My interview went great, the woman at the agency said that I am the most qualified candidate for the job. Now it’s just a personality thing. Hopefully, my sunny disposition this morning will get me to a second interview, and hopefully I won’t blow that one.

I also received a call this morning and have an interview with a different company tomorrow afternoon. Wish me luck.

I got to work this morning, checked my bank account to make sure that my check had been deposited (they had a screw up last week and checks were not deposited), and sure enough no check again today. This is getting to be almost too much. I already hate this job, and now they keep screwing up my paychecks. Somebody needs to get their act together, and realize if they don’t know accounting stop trying to be an accountant. If they can’t figure out how to submit payroll for direct deposit, hire someone that can do the job. I have got to find a new job before I go postal on someone here.

I have started sending out my resume, and hopefully will get a bite on it very very very soon. If anyone knows of any admin or AP/AR jobs out there please let me know.

Well, I am sitting here at work trying to figure out what to do. I wish there was a way for me to inform our corporate office about the activities here without giving myself away. I have got to start looking for another job. Even if this one does manage to get another contract, I honestly don’t feel like I could continue working for someone who acts the way my boss does…

I am home now, I had to save mid post because everyone decided to come sit in my office.

As I was saying, things at work aren’t great. While I was away the past few days, someone at work tried to break into my gmail account. This is my personal email account, I have to occassionally use it for work related purposes and I have told them that it is my personal account. I am not sure why they would want to get into my email other than to be nosy. Also, my boss who is a preacher can sometimes be the least Christian acting man I have ever seen.

I just wish I could find a job with all of the great benefits of this one that I loved the way I loved my last job. Maybe if I wish on the right start, on the right night, and the planets are all lined up correctly my wish will come true, but until then I guess I just need to decide if I am going to swallow my pride and beg for my old job back or start the search for a new job altogether.

I have decided that I made a huge mistake a couple of months ago. In March I accepted a position with a local vocational school working in their student services department. I will say that I was rather skeptical about the job, but after a couple of weeks I found that I loved what I was doing. I was helping people begin their new careers. It was an amazing feeling knowing that what I was doing was changing people’s lives, and giving them a chance at something better. I actually looked forward to going to work every day. I loved the people I worked with. I didn’t love the drive from south Huntsville to Madison everyday, and the pay wasn’t exactly what I was used to. However, I had never had a job before that I loved so much. I never came home stressed out. I was actually in a pretty good mood every afternoon when I got home.

Anyway, in mid-May I received a phone call from a company that I had interviewed with last summer. They were offering me a job as the Assistant to the Project Manager for a construction company working on the arsenal. I was thrilled with the opportunity they were offering. It was working in a field that I was more than competent in, and had several years experience doing already. Our office is literally 5 minutes from my house, and the pay was closer to what I was looking for. My hours would be better, off by 3:30 every afternoon. I would have insurance, vacation, and sick time.

So I weighed my options, and made the only choice I could, I accepted the new job. Now I am 2 months into the job, and realize I have made a huge mistake. I was told that we already had a new contract in place to start when the current one was finished at the end of July. This was not true, the contract is still in negotiations and it’s not looking good right now. What does this mean? I will probably be out of work by the 1st of August. I was lied to by someone who is supposed to be an honest man, a part time preacher. I have witnessed some not so ethical practices during the last 2 months, and then today I got sent out on the job site to perform manual labor. That’s right people, I was out vacuuming and sweeping out a construction site, moving lumber and other miscellaneous parts that the workers had left lying around. And did I mention it was 94 degrees with no AC in the building. Now don’t get me wrong I don’t mind pitching in and I don’t mind getting sweaty and dirty, but I was not hired to do manual labor, and after the way I have been lied to about the future of my employment with the company I don’t neccessarily feel that I should be asked to do this. I also have this same task to look forward to tomorrow since I only got 1/2 of the building done. Not that it matters because the drywall guys will be back on Thursday to mess it all back up again.

The one bright spot to my job is that since I am on base I have access to the base thrift shop, which I frequent on a weekly basis. My boss says he doesn’t mind if I stop in and shop while I am out running errands.

I suppose the next couple of weeks will tell me for sure if I made a mistake in accepting this job. I am seriously contemplating calling the school back and begging for my old job back. Guess we will see what happens, and hope for the best.