When one door closes, another one may open - right?
Well I'm basing my entire employment future (for the summer, at least) on that notion. I turned down a job today.
What else is new.
This time, at least I didn't speak before thinking it over. I didn't say "Yes", then turn around and say "Ummm... I meant no!" It was much more complicated then that, but I did learn my lesson.
What I want isn't always necessarily what I can have. For the time being.
Two weddings, lots of showers and bachelorette parties, grad school, a sick mom, and lots of loose ends make leaving suburban Detroit harder than you would think!
So today, I talked to a guy with the Bureau of Land Management fire program, based out of MOAB, Utah. MOAB! I love Moab! That was one of my first stops on my road trip and I loved it. Add the fact that it was for a fire job, and my first reaction was to say "Yes! Yes! I will fly home every weekend just so I can take this job!"
Shut your mouth, girl. Think, then speak.
Never been good at it, but I apologetically declined and emphatically said that, in the event that any positions opened up after July, to please please give me a call!!
Door closed. :( But hey, you never know. Maybe Moab will beckon me later this summer.
Suddenly another knocking on a different door. A local door, even. Got an interview for that stewardship crew out of Oakland county.
I'm never going to leave this place! Argh!
Seems to me you are a busy little bee with everything BUT what you really want to do.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying it to be mean, just how I see the situation. Correct me if I am wrong.
are you calling me irresponsible??
ReplyDeleteLOL just kidding. i don't know if that was meant sympathetically or critically or exactly how you meant it, but you are partly true... the only thing that i'm not doing that i really want to do is have a full time job in natural resources - but finding that would mean i couldn't do all these other fun things that i am busy with! and that's no fun!
hee hee, j'k - i am very actively trying to find that illusive job - one in Detroit would be ideal but seems impossible - so it's really not all fun and games and distractions! but it's not very exciting to read about job hunting, resume updating, cover-letter propogating, and human resources butt-kissing - so i don't mention it. ;)
is that what you meant? or should i try again?
In the end, you'll figure out what's right and when the best time to act on it is. And yes, when one door closes, another one opens. Just not always immediately. :-)
ReplyDeleteNikki
You're right about the door thing, my friend. Jobs are something you really cannot live with out ... well you can... but you know what I mean. The right one will come along. Kinda like when you're trying on shoes, right nikki?
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