So the perfect job isn't so perfect. All good things must come to an end. It hasn't ended yet but it will and the hopeful but yet non promised elusive we will provide for you a position if you just hang tight positions are looking quite sparse. So with that being said .... what's a girl to do? Well I'll tell you what she will do.
You give me 6 weeks off and fill it with crap busy work and I'm putting my resume on monster.com and careerbuilder.com and any other damn employment opportunity available to the english speaking world. Why? Because of any lesson I have learned in life it is this .... take care of you - cause no one else is going to do it for you as well as you can do it for yourself. So ...
I got responses ....
I got interviews ....
I have a second interview .... wednesday.
This job is for a medical software company. It is the exact same job that I do now but different software. My interview was solid and I felt great when I left. It was a perfect fit for both me and the company. BUT ... my job decides on friday at 3:30 to put out the schedule for next week .... and I am supposed to leave tomorrow. I don't even get the email from my boss - it is pass on to me by a co worker. I am supposed to be in NC tomorrow for the entire week ..... that, of course, would mean that I could not be in the most important - offer me the job - second interview that is to take place on Wednesday.
Now - I found this position through a recruiter .... so I have some insight to what the employer is thinking. I know that there are two position that are going to be filled and I am 1 of the 2 that were at the top of the list of all applicants. SO...
SO WHAT DO I DO?
Well here is the rest of the story - I have already told you that I'm supposed to go to NC this week. After that next monday I am supposed to be in Orlando for a week for training on a new software. Then the following monday my next install starts which last five weeks. After that .... no garantees.
So ... one aspect is if for some reason I could figure out a way to be here on wednesday to go to the interview and they hire me. I will have had to already made travel arrangements (expense to my current company) to go to Orlando for training that I will not need because I am giving notice that I am going to go work for another company. And my notice will run into a few days of the install (again expense to them) and I won't have given my company ample notice to find someone to replace me on the install before hand. But the new job starts March 1st and if I pass it up it will surely go to someone else.
Or ...
I go ahead and take the "LEAP OF FAITH" and give my two weeks notice, which gives my company this - they won't send me to NC - so I can go to my interview. It also gives them time to figure out a plan to cover me on the next install and the won't spend the expense of me going to Orlando for training I won't use.
Or ...
Because my job is my job - I go ahead and go to NC and I go ahead and go to Orlando. Then I go to my next install which starts on the 27th - basically I follow out whatever they expect to happen in the next few months and then when it ends I try to find a new job or a job within the company that I am currently employed and play those odds ....
Seems simple BUT ....
I don't have a job offer in writing.
YET.
And I have no guarantee with the company that I work with now.
So it's trusting .... faith....God....destiny....myself - that all is going to work out like I think it's going too.
Well, if you knew me and you have only a tiny glimpse in this blog of me and trust me it's maybe 1% of who I am - you would know that I am the most UNLUCKY person in the world. Now I say that as the most optimistic person in the world also. I know who I am. I can hope and wish and be ready for anything and everything - cause I always am. But in the left hand I know that if shit is going to happen to anyone - well it's going to happen to me. Proven fact, over & over & over again.
So counting my chicks in a basket before the eggs even hatch is probably not the best road to take.
I need advice.
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