New Job

This isn't my big news, but it is big news!  I decided right at the end of last year to pursue a new position at my current organization.  This has been a long time coming, but was a very hard decision to make.  I have worked at the same place building up the library from ruins to a functional space for almost five years.  I am very attached to the library and to my co-workers and am very sad to be leaving it.

The library shortly after I started working there.

However, I have had a very poor working relationship with my first and second line supervisors for a long time and it had only been deteriorating.  This summer I reached my breaking point and I decided that I needed to do something about changing my situation.  I had some conversations with others that I knew in the building to let them know that I was looking for a new job and to feel out the possibilities.  I also had very candid conversations with my middle management to determine if there was any way that things could change whether to improve the current situation or change my supervisor.  At that time, I thought that one of those was a possibility, so I asked to do a three month rotation to help make the necessary changes while I was out of the immediate position.

For the past two months, I have been working for the head of the agency working on a special project.  It sounds very fancy, but really it isn't.  A couple of weeks ago I had a conversation with my middle management to determine if any changes were going to happen and I also mentioned that I had an unofficial job offer working for the office that I had been working with while on rotation.  She told me that I should take the new job because the changes wouldn't happen in time and I shouldn't make myself miserable waiting for them.  That very day I went back to the office that had offered me the position and told them that we should start things moving.  Last week, I had a conversation with my direct supervisors and told them that I wouldn't be coming back from my rotation as I had a job offer.  Their response was basically how soon can it be done so that we can hire your replacement.  Thus it looks like I will be starting the new job in February.

When I told my sister that I had got a new job, she told me that I didn't know how lucky I was to have gotten a job without applying and without an interview.  The way that I see it though, I had a six month long interview.  

I am really excited because the new job has more flexibility with working hours and telework, which will be useful for my other big news.