After a Few Disaterous Distractions, Time for Daydreams Is Delayed: Part II

Distractions


My distance vision began to get better, and my near vision continued to get worse.

I kept myself busy getting ready for my daughter's high school graduation, getting the house ready for my son and his family to come to visit for the festivities, and for the big graduation party.

I realized that my time at the college would soon come to an end. My daughter's college plans did not include my workplace or any of the other institutions in the exchange groups. She has a full scholarship on her own merit at a school that seems to be a perfect fit for her and her interests.

This meant that, other than my love for the job, there was no valid reason for me to go back to pouring so much money into the gas tank and spending two - three hours each day driving to and from work. I decided to polish up my resume and work on some other skills that might help me land a job. However, I planned to enjoy the summer doing family things and start up my search in the fall after we got her settled in college.

One day, in the middle of May, I was looking for a book at a nearby library to help me with my future job search. On a whim, I asked them if they ever took resumes for hiring sometime in the future. They took my resume (I had a bunch of them with me that day in a folder I was using for notes) and I left.

I've always dreamed of working in a library. I can't imagine anything better than being paid to be surrounded by books and dealing with people who want to read. Well, that's not true, I can think of quite a few things that would be better...like being a top-ten best-selling author raking in TONS of money, that would be better. (ah... I see that Daydreaming decided to show up.) Proof of this would be my failed attempt at grad school for my Library Science degree. That failed because the timing was WAY off. We had just moved, I was driving 3 hours a day and trying to unpack and organize in the bits an pieces of time I had at home...my attempt lasted only a few weeks.

Anyway...I was busy getting ready for son and his family's arrival and all the fun things I'd hoped to do with the grandchildren. I also decided that the best "end date" for my employment would be June 15th, since that was exactly eleven and a half years since I began on January 15, 2001. So, I planned to call in my "two weeks notice" on June 1st.

I was quite surprised to get a call on Wednesday, May 30th offering me an interview for a job at the library. I interviewed on the 31st, and got the offer for the job on June 1st, within hours of giving my notice.I began the new job June 18th.

I truly believe that I had to be completely ready to let go of my much-loved job in order to get a job that I feel I will love. I had several other interviews in the past three years for jobs closer to home. All of those jobs were ones that I thought that I could do and do well, but not one of them felt like a dream job.

The only down side of this new job is the timing. Ideally, it would have come to me in fall...but, I'm sure there is a reason it came when it did. I have to give up plans we had to travel this summer, but maybe we can still get some short weekend trips in before college time comes around.

NEXT: more distractions and disaster shows up...again...