My poor, pathetic, neglected blog. :(
I have been so busy. And overwhelmed.
The day after my last post, I got a new job offer. I accepted it. The days that followed were a whirlwind of emotion and nerves and stress as I put in my notice with my current company and worked out details with the new.
I’m sad to leave where I’ve been for the past four years. I am going to miss a lot of the people I’ve worked with. It was such a great job—my favorite I’ve had so far—but a lot of things have changed in the past year or so and it isn’t the same as it once was. It’s still good, don’t get me wrong; I wasn’t desperate to get out. But I started exploring other opportunities and one came up that was too good to pass up. It’s going to be a BIG change.
I’m moving from a company with 50+ employees to a company with four employees. With that, I get a lot more responsibility since there are less people to share it with. And while business hours are still 8:30 to 5, and I’m still working full-time, this is going to be a much more mobile office environment. I’ve been told that as long as I get my work done, I can kind of come and go as I please. Unless I have meetings scheduled, there really will be no “running late” or “leaving early.” My new boss says, “I don’t care where you are at any given moment. If I need you, I’ll find you.”
That’s really appealing for a working mom of young children who often feels like she’s not adequately striking a balance.
Since I put in my notice, my workload has been insane. It would’ve been crazy anyway—it’s been a busy few weeks for my team. Most times, the last few weeks at a job are increasingly mellow, as other team members remove work from your plate as part of the transition. For me? Not so much. There’s a lot of work to go around so I think I’ll be working every minute right up until the very end. I’ve been putting in extra hours every day this week. In fact, today was a snow day—they actually closed our office!—but instead of having a fun, unexpected day off with my kids, I was trying to get a ton of work done with kids hanging on me and asking me for things. Some “snow day” that was. It would’ve been easier to be at the office!
Anyway, I’m nervous about the change, but I think that’s normal when you make a move like this. I’ve always felt this way when I’ve left jobs—sad and a little bit scared about what I’m leaving behind, but excited and anxious about what’s lying ahead.
I took a little more than a week off between jobs, so I’m looking forward to a little break. Some time to decompress after leaving my current job before starting fresh at the new. Some bonus time with my kids, and maybe even a day or two to catch up with some stuff around the house.
I’ve been wanting to blog about a lot of things; I just have so little time to do it. I really hope I can dig myself out and that blogging will become “easier” and part of my routine again. I wonder who’s still out there reading!
Onward and upward.
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I'm Heather. I'm 33 and have been married to Michael for seven years. Together, we have two beautiful little girls we love more than anything, and a miniature dachshund who drives us crazy. I'm a full-time working mom who has very little time for my own "stuff" these days, like home improvement, cooking/baking, cake decorating, and photography. Despite the team not making the playoffs since 1999, I'm STILL a Buffalo Bills fan, which I think speaks to my loyalty AND sense of humor. I can't wait to pick up the pace with travel again some day... you know, when we're done being ruled by tiny fists. Welcome to my blog.
Congrats!
Oh! Congratulations on your new job! I really hope that this is exactly what you are looking for. I’m kind of jealous of the freedom you will get – that seems like a dream come true. Looking forward to reading more posts – I’ve been a reader since your days on Road to the Aisle!
Congratulations! When I read the title to your post I was worried you were leaving your blog, I’m so glad that’s not the case.
Congratulations!
congratulations! how exciting to be moving on to something new. You still have me as a reader, I’ve been hanging around since Road to the Aisle as well. In all this time though I don’t remember what line of work your in?
Congrats on the new job!! Don’t worry too much about the blog while you adjust to the new role… Any new job is taxing, not to mention taking on a brand-new company and new scale of work. Looking forward to hearing about the transition once you get through the thick of it. :)
Congratulations!! New beginnings can be so exciting and also a little scary. This sounds like such a wonderful opportunity for you!
Still reading along whenever you have time to post. Congrats on the job, a new challenge is always a good thing!
Congrats on the new job! I’m still reading :)
Congrats – that is so exciting! Good luck! I’m still reading and will be until you close it down (which I hope never happens!) I will say, even if the posts are infrequent these days, you put out good stuff when you do one. I loooove reading! I *read* very few blogs, mostly scroll through pics, but yours is too good not to read :)
Congrats!! I hope you enjoy the change :). Good Luck
Congrats on the job!
I’m still reading heather – been reading since 2010!
I’m still here! I’ve been with you since your wedding blog and don’t plan on leaving yet. My wedding invitations look the way they did because of you and now that we have just had our first baby I started doing a month by month pictures of our new bundle of joy mainly because of you. I loved looking at your updates of your babies (in a non stalker way). In fact Today was the first one month picture!
Congrats! That’s why I love my job. I can come and go as well as make my own schedule . My boss feels as long as my work is done and he can catch me on my cell or email we are all good. It works out well especially when the little one is sick.
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