Hey, People!
I have a new job. I’m still at Southeastern University, but I will now be working for the Dean of Extended Education. The job is a lateral move, but it takes me to work I will love and I anticipate that we will take the enrollment to a good level and will need to have help and I’ll be promoted into a position created for me. That’s my goal. My interview with the new boss was great. We’re so looking forward to making a difference at SEU with our efforts.
My own department is in the midst of a shake-up, with a former employee coming back to take the position of Director of Student Financial Services. Other changes have been surprising. The former director is now a counselor, taking the position of the former counselor, who moved across the hall to the Admission Department (under the same VP). A Student Accounts Counselor moved down to the Business Office to become the AP Coordinator. She was replaced with a wonderful new employee, whom Andrew and I have trained over the last five weeks or so. After disregarding the openings for Financial Aid Counselors in the past, I applied for this one. After not hearing anything for a month, I decided to apply for a second position, the one I have now accepted. In the middle of this, after I had already had a second great interview, our director was moved into the position for which I had applied within our department. Next another long-term Financial Aid Counselor resigned, and that same evening I was offered the new job. Before I accepted it, I learned that about the new director. I would have been quite happy to work under her, but I wasn’t sure about other parts of the structure. And I am so happy to know that I will not have to be encouraging people to get loans as the only way they can go to school, because it’s a “worthwhile investment.” I could have thrived in the new environment. I could have even offered input. Indeed I have been discussing things with the new director, because she is my friend first and incoming director second. In fact, she wrote letters of recommendation for me for both jobs. Turns out that God really moved for a change for me, taking me out of there before I had an opportunity to give much thought to staying. I start on August 8, but I’ll come back to help some as needed, including Orientation weekend.
So much has been going on that has eaten up the time I was supposed to have as Instead of Master’s. I have also taken more time for husband, watching some television and movies. But feeling pressed to accomplish more, I will adjust my schedule so that I can be more diligent to accomplish the goals before me.
• Changing from BrightHouse to FIOS meant changing e-mail addresses everywhere.
• Job opportunities meant completing the application twice, revising the estimate twice, and getting letters of recommendation twice.
• It meant a one-hour meeting with the potential new boss, a twenty-minute meeting with the VP, then another two-hour interview.
• Refinancing effort involved two meetings at the bank. One to set it up, one to take it away.
• It meant taking time off to tidy extra before the appraisal.
• It meant an upfront payment, which we are now trying to have reimbursed.
• It meant rethinking blogs, which I now have figured out. For this blog, I could not write until I had resolved many of the issue.
Ahhhhh. So onward and upward, forward for the challenges and joys of the days ahead. I intend to start a Web site for writing and editing, which Jo will help me with. The goals for our business continue to foremost, and I will be tackling my tasks with renewed strength immediately.
I have, today, just spent about three hours blogging about my thoughts and goals, so now, at 3:30, it’s time to start down my list of things to do today.
kitchen, sort lettuce, fix Monday lunch
do mail, cash sheet, prepare worksheet
do wrap-ups
sort and reorganize papers
church this evening?
And that’s it for now.
