Post by keithurbanlovinpea on Apr 2, 2015 20:44:01 GMT
You can call them whatever you like... blessings, good fortune, stroke of luck but I fell compelled to share mine and give everyone a forum to share theirs as well. This will probably get long. Feel free to skip to the end.
I posted a couple of weeks ago about giving notice to my boss about leaving my position. For many reasons, some going back to last summer, it was time to leave that company.
I found what I thought was a perfect position. A small company poised for growth that required the skill set that I possess... people and process management. But this was a small company. Very small. As in, I was employee #2, reporting to the president. The slate was blank for taking the processes in place, refining them, writing P&P, hiring people, etc. He had admitted to me in two prior interviews that he had challenges with turnover, which he chalked up to his management style, and was the primary reason he wanted to hire a manager (me) to take over the day-to-day management, leaving him free to build the business. So the company was positioned to go either spectacularly awesome or phenomenally crater. I was scheduled to start that job 3-23. As the date approached, I felt very apprehensive. But I could not put my finger on anything specific other than nerves, new situation, change, etc.
I start that job and at the end of day 1, I come home and have a melt down. Crying, severe anxiety, and just generally distraught. But strangely enough, nothing specific or bad happened that day. Day 2, same thing. No explanation or any type of incident. But my gut was telling me something wasn't right. I went in Wednesday and approached the president about my need to adjust my schedule (the commute for my original schedule was just awful), and he said he might be able to work with the schedule but that he got the sense that I was not finding the position to be a good fit. I admitted that I was having second thoughts, and ultimately that was it. By 12 Noon on Day 3, I was unemployed. What is bizarre is that I immediately felt a huge weight lift off of my as I left that office.***
So I go home, have a pity party, panic the freak out and then get up the next day to try to figure out what the heck I am going to do. I am reviewing Linked In and I see that one of my former colleagues (someone I actually hired when I worked for the company) was having a 13th anniversary. I reminisced about how time had passed, and then sent her a quick note of congratulations. We exchange of few pleasantries and in the course of talking about the work she is doing for this company, she says they are super busy and looking for another person. Can you see where this is going? Yep... two days after walking out of the strange-vibe job I had a verbal offer to come back to work at this company (they apparently call this "boomeranging").
I officially started my new gig today. I was unemployed for all of one week. But it gets better. Aside from the fact that I am working for a company that I have history with (positive history... I left 11 years ago to stay home with my little ones), I know so many people including my partners on the project and my boss. I also gain an enormous amount of flexibility, primarily in scheduling, work hours and location. Basically, I can work from home, whenever I want, as long as I am available for client meetings (online and an occasional in-person meeting at the client site about 40 minutes from home) and I get my assignments done on time.
I am extremely, extremely blessed and fortunate to have this opportunity. There are so many reasons that working from home and having this kind of flexibility is important right now. I look toward heaven everyday and thank the Good Lord above for my health, family and daily blessings, but this one is far beyond my imagination. I am also extremely blessed to have such an amazing husband who supported me in the job change, and then the job abandonment, and tried so hard to help me figure out what was wrong. He is my rock!
*** I will share that shortly after I left strange-vibe company, I placed a call to someone who had accepted a position shortly before I did but then worked for two weeks and left before I started. I felt the need to ask her what her experience was that drove her to quit so soon. She was happy to share details, and while I did not observe any of the behaviors that she saw (anger issues, irrational behavior), I now know that my gut instinct was right and getting out of there ASAP was the best thing I could have ever done.
So... what blessings have come upon your life that you would like to share?
I posted a couple of weeks ago about giving notice to my boss about leaving my position. For many reasons, some going back to last summer, it was time to leave that company.
I found what I thought was a perfect position. A small company poised for growth that required the skill set that I possess... people and process management. But this was a small company. Very small. As in, I was employee #2, reporting to the president. The slate was blank for taking the processes in place, refining them, writing P&P, hiring people, etc. He had admitted to me in two prior interviews that he had challenges with turnover, which he chalked up to his management style, and was the primary reason he wanted to hire a manager (me) to take over the day-to-day management, leaving him free to build the business. So the company was positioned to go either spectacularly awesome or phenomenally crater. I was scheduled to start that job 3-23. As the date approached, I felt very apprehensive. But I could not put my finger on anything specific other than nerves, new situation, change, etc.
I start that job and at the end of day 1, I come home and have a melt down. Crying, severe anxiety, and just generally distraught. But strangely enough, nothing specific or bad happened that day. Day 2, same thing. No explanation or any type of incident. But my gut was telling me something wasn't right. I went in Wednesday and approached the president about my need to adjust my schedule (the commute for my original schedule was just awful), and he said he might be able to work with the schedule but that he got the sense that I was not finding the position to be a good fit. I admitted that I was having second thoughts, and ultimately that was it. By 12 Noon on Day 3, I was unemployed. What is bizarre is that I immediately felt a huge weight lift off of my as I left that office.***
So I go home, have a pity party, panic the freak out and then get up the next day to try to figure out what the heck I am going to do. I am reviewing Linked In and I see that one of my former colleagues (someone I actually hired when I worked for the company) was having a 13th anniversary. I reminisced about how time had passed, and then sent her a quick note of congratulations. We exchange of few pleasantries and in the course of talking about the work she is doing for this company, she says they are super busy and looking for another person. Can you see where this is going? Yep... two days after walking out of the strange-vibe job I had a verbal offer to come back to work at this company (they apparently call this "boomeranging").
I officially started my new gig today. I was unemployed for all of one week. But it gets better. Aside from the fact that I am working for a company that I have history with (positive history... I left 11 years ago to stay home with my little ones), I know so many people including my partners on the project and my boss. I also gain an enormous amount of flexibility, primarily in scheduling, work hours and location. Basically, I can work from home, whenever I want, as long as I am available for client meetings (online and an occasional in-person meeting at the client site about 40 minutes from home) and I get my assignments done on time.
I am extremely, extremely blessed and fortunate to have this opportunity. There are so many reasons that working from home and having this kind of flexibility is important right now. I look toward heaven everyday and thank the Good Lord above for my health, family and daily blessings, but this one is far beyond my imagination. I am also extremely blessed to have such an amazing husband who supported me in the job change, and then the job abandonment, and tried so hard to help me figure out what was wrong. He is my rock!
*** I will share that shortly after I left strange-vibe company, I placed a call to someone who had accepted a position shortly before I did but then worked for two weeks and left before I started. I felt the need to ask her what her experience was that drove her to quit so soon. She was happy to share details, and while I did not observe any of the behaviors that she saw (anger issues, irrational behavior), I now know that my gut instinct was right and getting out of there ASAP was the best thing I could have ever done.
So... what blessings have come upon your life that you would like to share?
