YES! finally.....life is GOOD!

bluerockgirl

Congrats Dreamn!!! I'm very happy for you:)
Have fun in Europe!

emily18

ahh i love when life is great like that

congrats!!

dreaminincolor

aww...congratulations Dream!!! that is totally awesome...and you TOTALLY deserve it!!!!! YAY!!!

Lizard

Congrats....have a great vacation and enjoy your new job. And don't forget the "little" people you met on the way up!

PaperPlates

Congrats d2d! You deserve it!

And say Hi! to Ed and the guys for me.

Boom The Cat

decides2dream wrote:

man, as the saying goes..when it rains it pours...whether good or bad. thankfully, finally, it's been ALL good!


tomorrow, off to london and then 2 bliss-filled weeks in europe filled with friends, travel and live pearl jam, 3x!


more importantly, personally, life has been on a major upswing at home....some issues *resolved*....lots of positives in the works, and 'celebrated' a week early, 15 years of marriage, a very desired and hard-won anniversary!

to just make everything that much better, as many know i left my teaching career 2 years ago, looking for new direction, blah, blah. well, today i got a follow-up call from an interview on june 1st...basically saying i have the job if i want it, a job offer will be awaiting my return from europe, a whole package waiting my approval/negoatiation! seriously, just amazing! completely outside my field or experience, a real job for 'the man' in the corporate world, huge international client service/accountancy company, US HQ in NYC.

funny how it all works, it IS all 'who you know'...heard of the job, by chance, a friend of a friend...guy that my husband works with, his sister passed along my resume, gave my name a push, and then i got interviewed by 4 partners/directors....truly well-liked, impressed em even being totally outside my field. i KNOW i'd not have even been considered/interviewed if not for her...so wow! i hope i like it, complete change for me...but yea, for once in my life..i am going for the fat paycheck, and i'll save my artistic creativity for my own time/work ....and i hope to enjoy embracing my organizational/anal'retentiveness for the job...hahaha.


so hell yea.....LIFE IS GOOD!!!
:cool:

Congratulations, You were certainly due for some good luck

Collin

Congratulations! And have fun on the trip!

decides2dream

thanks all!
yea, it's a done deal....the job is most definitely mine! still have to get all the paperwork straightened out, etc...but yea, got my official offer on monday. so psyched, an even better offer than i initially anitcipated, unbelievable....fantastic compensation package all the way around! bout time!

i'll be starting july 30th, a full week of orientation...sounds like i even may go to georgia? for one day for somethin', haha, don't remember fully all the recruiter told me, but i'll find out soon enough. so i won't actually start training for my 'real' position until first full week in august, and then i'll see how it all goes. hope i like it! no matter what, i am very excited, and hell...i'll learn to like it. i'm sure there will be a few things that tap into my organizational, anal-rentive nature......just utilize a different skill set, a refreshing change...and yea...i am simply beyond pleased, as is my husband, with a solid salary and comp package, etc.....yea!

today i give in my notice with my current employer. i hate doing that, but eh well...gotta be done. i am just glad i can give a full 2 weeks notice, was afraid i might not've been able to...and i can take a week inbetween to get my own shit together, wardrobe, etc......very cool. my manager hasn't been in since i've been back from europe until today. she's been great to me, but yea, i need to make way more! so wish me luck today! hahaha!


and yes, europe was fuckin' BRILLIANT, all of it! eventually when i get all my shite together, i'll upload/organize all my pics on the computer and will be sure to share! i have some fantastic pics of everything...and dusseldorf was right in front of mikey/jeff...so amazing pics!

SPEEDY MCCREADY

hello D2D...

happy 4th.....

decides2dream

SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:

hello D2D...

happy 4th.....

speedy! yoo too!
now that i am home from work, it will be......dinner out for mexican, yea!


and, give in my notice today, all good....told the family all my good news, yes! still have to get all the paperwork done, but yea, very exciting!

tybird

Congrats on everything D2D.....kick some ass on the new job!!!

wolfbear

Congrats! It sounds like it will be be right up your alley. Keep us posted once you start. Get working on those pics too-nudge, nudge.

Brain of J.Lo

Great news all around! Hope you enjoy your new position and all of the perks that come with it!!

Drowned Out

hmmmm...never noticed this thread...you might be able to skip replying to my pm, this pretty much covers everything
Sooooooo happy for you!

decides2dream

Drowned Out wrote:

hmmmm...never noticed this thread...you might be able to skip replying to my pm, this pretty much covers everything
Sooooooo happy for you!

hehee.....:o i REALLY need to catch up with my PM box one of these days. hell, i still have to upload all my euro photos......:p today is only my 3rd day off since coming home, and i've had a LOT going on...so yea......i WILL post pics, eventually...and i will respond to PMs...eventually.......:D



btw - when it rains it really DOES pour! i went to an art teachers' career fair over a month ago, and....nutthin'. now that i am starting a new job on the 30th, guess what? yea...got a call for a teaching job today. unreal. i don't know what to do. on the one hand i really don't want to go back to teaching....but on the other i was very good at it, knew what i was doing, etc. this new job, totally outside my field, don't know if i'll like it, etc. the teaching position is in the bronx, not great....in a middle school....not great.....but still. a NYC public school job could be very beneficial and rewarding down the road, dunno. right now, i'll make a bit more $$$ with the offer i already have, and i'd probably keep pace with a teaching position, or do even better....but dunno. sheesh. i'm gonna call the school tomorrow, see what's what. i don't want to fuck up the offer i already got, but i figure i owe it to myself to look into it all. just about 2 years and nutthin'....now two offers maybe? hahahaha.

NY PJ1

good luck dreamy xo

IamMine

wow, good to see you, dreamn.

I haven't visited AET in like forever and I don't know what made me today. Just been awfully busy!

Glad to hear things are going well for you!!! Yay!!!

I'll try to come back and check your euro pictures! I always enjoyed your photographs!

13K posts - damn, I've been "gone" a long time...

chiquimonkey

very cool update! good luck with whichever path you choose!

decides2dream

chiquimonkey wrote:

very cool update! good luck with whichever path you choose!

thanks chica!


and, i've already made my decision. i really had only *just* gotten the message of the teaching job within the hour of that earlier post....so hell yea, thoughts spin round my head! after leaving here and thinking, talking with my husband, more thinking out loud....i realized, i am sticking with my initial decision, sticking with the first offer i received.

i realize, i may *never* get the opportunity again to venture off into something entirely *new*.....outside my field of expertise, experience, education, personally and professionally. i initially left teaching b/c i wanted to try a new venture. sure, other reasons in the mix there, but that was the main crux of it at the time.

now, almost 2 years have passed since i left my school, and up until now and this offer, nutthin'. so how can i pass up this *unknown* possibility now? taking the teaching position, if it even got offerred...i am sure they wanted to schedule an interview first .......would be the *safe* choice. i CAN always return to teaching, especially in a shitty public school. hahaha. this certainly wasn't my 'dream school' or district, not by a long shot...so yea. those opportunities may come again. this other thing though, i tried and tried to go somewhere new...and while i'd not have persued such a path as this one initially, here it is, being offerred to me...with an amazing package, so yea.....further reflection and i realize, stick with it! going into a corporate job may not seem the 'road less travelled' but in MY life, it sure as hell is, so yea, i want to venture that path, see where it takes me.

so yes, time to ride a new wave!



and.........IamMine...hi right back atcha!

wolfbear

I'm glad you're going to try the new position. As you said, you really did want to try something different. Good luck and keep us posted.