Skip to main content

I can finally tell you my good news!

Earlier this year, a friend of mine, who left my employers last year, was telling me about her job, I told her if any new roles came up to let me know. A couple of weeks ago, a role came up, so I sent her my CV, which she then sent over just after Easter. Two days later the agency called me and set up an interview for the following week. The day before my interview, they called and offered me the position, I hadn't even had an interview, although this still went ahead as a formality. Knowing I already had the role, I was a lot less nervous and the interview actually went better because of that. It was a great way to start the long weekend. The husband was taking me away for me belated birthday treat, so we went off to the New Forest, somewhere I've always wanted to go and I was extra happy, knowing I had the new job offer. We had a really lovely weekend, visiting various villages, pubs, restaurants, a beach and a castle. I was feeling on top of the world. We came home on Monday and picked up the Tobes from the cattery. I was feeling anxious, as I hate leaving him, but he was fine and happy to see us meowing away, no doubt telling us off for leaving him. On Tuesday I met two of my friends for lunch, I haven't seen them for ages so it was really good to catch up. For some reason, I was still feeling anxious and couldn't work out why. Yesterday, I went to have my lashes done and was chatting to Zoe and realised that it was because I knew I was going to hand my notice in the following day. I saw my friend for dinner, who also used to be my boss and discussed it with her. We spoke about what I would write in my resignation letter, she would review my letter for me before I sent it over. This morning, I drafted the email and sent it to her and another friend who is also in a senior position and they both agreed it was fine to send. I was seeing my counsellor and meeting the bestie for lunch after, I would send it over once I got home. I discussed my anxiety with my counsellor and then with the bestie, who had got me a congratulations card and flowers. When I got home I dithered around, before finally pressing send. After 4 years at my current employers, I have finally handed in my resignation. For 24 years I have been a full time permanent employee of a number of companies. I liked the stability of having a permanent role. In the industry I am in, contractors are paid a lot more that permanent staff, however, they did not get the benefits that permanent staff were given, such as holiday pay, sick pay etc. For that reason, I always avoided contracting. It was only when my friend asked me a couple of months ago, when I mentioned I would need to look for a new job, if I was going to do some contracting work, that I even gave it a thought. 3 of my former team members also work there, who I have stayed in touch with as I really like them, so I will know people that work there, which is always nice and its also working from home full time, which really me, not having to get the train into London, its basically what I have been manifesting for some time, the high vibes has worked! I'm really looking forward to this fresh start.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Is Success The Thing That Scares Us? Or Is It Failure We Really Fear?

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill If you fear failure, the above quote from Winston Churchill can be seen as comforting, failing at something can be a huge blow to our egos. But what if you aren't scared to fail? What if succeeding is the thing that scares you most? Failure is something that some of us are quite prepared for. Before we've even set out to do something, that voice in your head is already saying "it probably won't work out". We often prepare ourselves for the worst outcome to protect our fragile egos. If we fail, things will stay as they are and whether we are happy with our current situation or not, it is a lot easier to stay in a familiar situation. Of course, we don't want to fail, we'll feel rubbish about it, sometimes it means we can't do the things we had hoped for at the time, but ultimately, nothing has changed, and we can usually fall back into our old routin...
Post a Comment
Read more

5 Articles On Medium To Help You Accomplish Your Goals

This is my 700th post on Medium 🥳 I think I’ve come a long way since my first post Welcome To My Blog In yesterdays post, I shared 5 Steps To Setting Goals & Some Useful Tools & Tips Here are 5 articles I found on Medium that also provide some useful information around goal setting In the post What Do You Want? from Gustavo Gallina, we are reminded; “Dreams should be pursued. Set objectives and strive toward them.” In 3 Ways To Make Habits Stick Sobaan Saeed, also talks about failure “You’re gonna fail, you’re gonna screw up but if you show up with that positive attitude every day and just keep trying to do better that’s really all you can ask of yourself.” Daria Haller talks about self discipline in 8 Brilliant Ways To Master Your Self Discipline “don’t forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments.” Eve Arnold makes some great points in the article Why Trading Your Life Hack Mindset For Mindful Productivity Means You Wake Up Happier “Mindful prod...
Post a Comment
Read more

5 Articles on Medium That Helped Me Overcome Self Doubt

If you read yesterday's article , you’ll know that I’m back from holiday and rather than being full of self-assurance, I'm battling with self-doubt. Yesterday morning, I begrudgingly got out of bed, looked through my to-do list and very quickly decided it was going to be another slow day, reminding myself that it was perfectly ok, although I wasn’t entirely convinced. I decide to read some articles on medium, which I find to be much better for my mind than scrolling through Tik Tok (which I did for the first time this week for longer than I care to admit!) I’m so thankful I did. I came across Alex Mather’s article If you work for yourself and have self-doubt read this “emotions of doubt, are based not on reality, but on our thoughts.” Yes! Everything swimming through my head was all about a failure that hadn’t yet happened, after all, how can you fail at getting work as a writer when you haven’t even submitted any work or made any applications?? Calley Overtons artic...
Post a Comment
Read more