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Since my last update I've adopted two kittens and gotten a promotion. Neither of which I've had since the early nineties, now that I think about it--the cats we got then lived sixteen and twenty years respectively, and every positive career move in the interim has been me changing companies (sometimes with extreme prejudice) to move upward.
I'm not sure how to process the fact that I've been at this company for almost a year, and am now being actively recruited upward internally. I've been doing a major project alongside some big wigs, accreditation stuff where we're tinkering with policies and merging two companies into a statewide entity of a national company, and when I put it in those terms it sounds more impressive than my part has been, but I can still swim the current and that's been a good thing to demonstrate.
The new position starts in November, with leadership potential, a delightful pay rise, and stable hours where I can go back to the gym again. It marks the first time in four years I won't be unemployed, underemployed or doing some kind of temp gig I can't see a future at. It's...weird, actually, to be appreciated with not just more work but an old-fashioned promotion with a new title and a real paycheck.
The kittens are still unnamed, a blond tabby boy who's sweet and pliable and outgoing, and a dark tortoiseshell girl with bright owl eyes and the dangerous diffidence of a ninja; brother and sister. Personality-wise they are the April Ludgate and Andy Dwyer of cats.
I'm not sure how to process the fact that I've been at this company for almost a year, and am now being actively recruited upward internally. I've been doing a major project alongside some big wigs, accreditation stuff where we're tinkering with policies and merging two companies into a statewide entity of a national company, and when I put it in those terms it sounds more impressive than my part has been, but I can still swim the current and that's been a good thing to demonstrate.
The new position starts in November, with leadership potential, a delightful pay rise, and stable hours where I can go back to the gym again. It marks the first time in four years I won't be unemployed, underemployed or doing some kind of temp gig I can't see a future at. It's...weird, actually, to be appreciated with not just more work but an old-fashioned promotion with a new title and a real paycheck.
The kittens are still unnamed, a blond tabby boy who's sweet and pliable and outgoing, and a dark tortoiseshell girl with bright owl eyes and the dangerous diffidence of a ninja; brother and sister. Personality-wise they are the April Ludgate and Andy Dwyer of cats.
