J'ai un Travail!!!

I have a job!!! The air the last two days here in Upstate, SC has been cool, crisp, and is distinctly laced with the scent of Fall. Only the smell of rain rivals its refreshing properties. Just taking a breath renews your soul and makes you truly happy to be alive. Adding to my happiness was the succussful interview of the morning and the call shortly after that told me what I've been waiting over a year now to hear...you got the job! It's certainly not the job I was planning to get; it has nothing to do with my major. My Dad talked to some people at his work and it turns out that they have been desparately trying to fill a 3rd shift position for a long time and they are willing to train a new person the skills needed to perform the task. I'm a bit nervous about switching to 3rd shift, but I'm a natural night owl and can sleep just about anytime, so I think I'll adjust fine. My sister is having her gallbladder taken out tomorrow, well actually later today (Friday). They changed the time of her surgery to 7:30AM. She has to be there at 5:30AM, so we have to leave our house at 4:30AM, so I have to get up at 4:00AM, so I just decided to try and stay up all night, in order to get ready for the start of my job Sunday night at 11PM.

The new job will offer me a great deal of freedom! Most importantly I'll be able to fund the classes I plan to begin taking in January in order to obtain my Medical Technologist certification so that I can eventually get the kind of job I planned to get in the first place. I will earn valuable work experience and prove once and for all to my future interviewers that I am capable of holding down a full-time position. I will have financial freedom...for the first time, really ever, I will have a decent amount of money in my checking account. It is hard to even budget or plan things when you don't have a steady income to count on. And last, but not least, I will be able to move out of my parents house! We actually have been getting along extemely well, and niether of us are really in a hurry to part ways...but at this point in all our lives it's only natural for me to want to move out, and for them to want me to move out. Now, I will be able to do so, and that is a fun and exciting thing to think about.

As these things tend to go...the woman that hired me just happens to have a friend that works in a lab, so she's wants me to give her my resumé and she'll pass it along. It's a crazy world, who knows? Maybe something will come of that...it's all about who you know.