| August 6, 2007 HELLO MONDAY. I love you Monday! Oh my God. I got the job. I found out for sure right before lunch today. I start Monday. The paper is not too happy with the 4.3 days notice I gave them. I am scared to death and thrilled and it's bad when someone reminds you to be HAPPY about something. I have so much to do between now and then that I don't even know which way to start turning. Thank GOD Kevin is helping me out with some groundwork on finding the right aftercare place for Erica and even OFFERED TO PICK HER UP. It's really freaking me out. I'm so used to being the only parent responsible for this child during the week, during the school year, the serious stuff, that it's just surreal that he even offers his help. I told him that I did appreciate the offer but I didn't want it to be a burden on him and he said it wasn't, that he wanted to do it. It's an incredible feeling to try to grasp that I actually have an equal PARTNER. And can I just say that I ate some of the BEST food I've ever had outside of a restaurant while staying at our place this past weekend??? The man can cook like nobody's business. Seriously. Cook like Amanda Cooks. I am in fucking HEAVEN for sure. Here's the bit of info on the job I put on the myspace blog: The Job. I landed a job doing something at a place that just the interview itself was like watching myself on a television show or something. Kevin went with me because I didn't want to have to find the place by myself (besides being able to spend some time during the week with him, bonus!) and I went in and the woman had to have a badge to open the doors and this big door slides open silently and we enter a small conference room that's all glass on one wall that's overlooking a stadium seating "pit" type room with rows of people sitting at computers and on the wall in front of all of them are all these projections of graphs and statistics and live weather maps and just DAY UM. The room was dark and they all had head sets on and were focused very intently on the computers in front of them and the stuff on the wall. I was thinking there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell that I'd get the job she was talking about. The position I interviewed originally for was just a little data entry processing position. No big deal. The woman I talked to was very nice but the more we talked .... she said what nobody likes to hear: "you are really overqualified for this position." I told her, that's not exactly what anyone wants to hear but she followed it up with the news that they had just created a new position for the VP of Security Operations and she was going to find him and have him talk to me about THAT position. And he came in and we went over everything and he basically told me that I had the job after the criminal, credit and drug checks came back fine. And then named a figure that almost made me fall out of the chair. My new job title is "Project Coordinator" but it's going to be a big free for all challenge and THAT is going to be so cool. He'll be my immediate supervisor, he travels a lot, the job deals with internet security and some travel will be involved at some point and I'll be coordinating and documenting and all sorts of stuff and oh my GOD I start on MONDAY!!!!!!! I'll be living in North Raleigh (a city! wheee!!!! I need a map although I am managing to find my way in and out so far) with a Man I absolutely love and adore, who loves me back, who actively likes my kids, who is just absolutely amazing and a true partner in every sense of the word AND working at a firm that deals in Internet Security making enough money that I'll actually be able to pay my bills and MAYBE HaVE more than $20 left over to last until that next paycheck in two weeks. If I'm dreaming, please don't wake me up because everything prior to this seems like hell on earth compared to what's sitting in front of me right now. WHO KNEW???????? The only downside is that I will be leaving behind some people at the paper that I will truly miss. It's a BFD to me. It's a job I never thought I'd ever have a CHANCE at attaining with no education to speak of. It's all about providing esecurity solutions to businesses like banks and stuff. I can't believe it. I told Kevin, I don't even know where to park. What am I going to wear the first day? Oh my God. There's another whole thing. Will I have a desk? A cubicle? A room? A walkthrough? So many questions, so many unknown variables. I need to get underwater. Speaking of which. I went through the Rescue Diver course. Technically, I guess you could say that I am qualified to be a Rescue Diver. I don't feel like it but I can say I learned a bunch of things. Sometimes though, I learn more from my dive partner (Kevin) than I do at any other time. Plus I have a new client wanting to talk to me about web work and an old client wants to revamp their site and oh man. It's going to get awfully busy in the next couple of weeks.
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