Just wanted to share a little life update to make up for the last year.
I am working full time as an enrollment adviser for an online technical school. We specialize in online certifications and have a low price/high job placement model that makes our school VERY unique. I love my coworkers, have great benefits, and am compensated really well. The company is moving to Lehi in the next 6 months, so a lot of big changes are coming at our house-including a potential move.
I am going to school full time online through SUU to finish my bachelors degree. So I am currently a full time student, a full time employee, and a full time mom and wife.
Colton is currently loving the "stay at home dad" life. He teaches about 5 guitar lessons every day, and has a waiting list a mile long. He is hoping to get into nursing school in January, and we are just trying to tie up some lose ends to make that happen. I personally love having him home, he is the best housekeeper and takes really good care of me with how much I work.
Matai is currently in his second year of pre-school. He was accepted into a government program for kids with "special needs" as his speech is a little behind. This last year we have seen a dramatic difference in his speech, and he really loves going to school every day.
Tai is currently in gymnastic classes (which he LOVES) and is a very active little boy. He loves animals, planes, cars and more recently Legos (Weggos.) He also really loves his friends Giddy, Kru, and Kase. He spent the last couple of months attached at the hip to his cousin Kruz who was here visiting from New Zealand.
We have 2 cats and 2 dogs. I don't know when we went from 0-crazy animal people, but I can assure you (and my neighbors) that we are not getting anymore pets. Long story short, we adopted one cat, (Jekyl) and my parents (my dad) adopted his brother, Hide. Then my parents (my mom) decided they didn't want a cat, so we ended up with 2. Well, since they have each other, they want nothing to do with us, and our hopes of getting Tai an animal friend were in vain.
We then rescued a 2 year old Golden Retriever (who was named Copenhagen, which we changed to Cooper, for obvious reasons.) He is a GREAT dog, but has a lot of separation anxiety because of how he was brought up. To try and curb the anxiety, we thought it would be best to get another golden retriever as a companion.
So basically what I'm trying to tell you is, see! I'm not crazy.
And if my house smells like animals, and you don't tell me, you aren't really my friend.
(The animals are outside most of the time and Colton is an obsessive vacuum-er.)
That is our life in a little tiny pine-nut shell. (I love pine nuts.)
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
..So That Better Things Can Fall Together
After I got let go, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out where to go next.
In order to afford the new home we were in, I couldn't go back to a low paying job, and I had felt like I "lucked out" when it came to my "dream job."
I was so scared that I wouldn't be able to find a job that paid what I needed to make, and that we would end up needing to rent out our home.
Despite the horrible timing, we also really lucked out.
Because we had just signed on our mortgage, we had two months where we didn't have to make a house payment. That was a major blessing.
I was also able to collect unemployment, and in turn save for the next few mortgage payments while we were "rent free."
It was nice for me to be able to take a few months off. I knew there would be very few opportunities in my life that I could stay at home with Tai, and have an income.
I really took advantage of it because I needed to figure out what I wanted, and where I needed to be.
A few weeks before my unemployment stopped, I was scrolling through job openings, and an Academic Adviser position popped up. I didn't really have a background in Advising, but the salary was great, and the drive wasn't too bad.
I submitted my resume on a whim, and got a call the same day.
I interviewed the day after that, and was offered the position that evening.
It was such a whirlwind.
After losing a job I loved, being a stay at home mom for 4 months and then getting a job offer that required me to drive 25 miles through the canyon everyday (a huge fear of mine) I had no idea what to expect.
It took a lot of time to adjust to a new job, new coworkers, and a new schedule.
Looking back, I still can't believe how lucky I got.
The way everything happened, the timing of being let go, my unemployment running out and the position coming available at my new job, it all worked out perfectly.
I found out later that my work almost never hires people from job postings. I would say that 99% of our new hires come through referrals. So the fact that I got in during the small window when they were hiring, really speaks to how lucky I was and how perfect the timing was.
Without the experience I gained at 123, I would have never been able to land this job.
I love my new coworkers. I love coming to work. I have so many more opportunities than I did at my last job, and we are paid in money, not just "perks."
This whole situation has been a big "let go and let god" experience for me.
In order to afford the new home we were in, I couldn't go back to a low paying job, and I had felt like I "lucked out" when it came to my "dream job."
I was so scared that I wouldn't be able to find a job that paid what I needed to make, and that we would end up needing to rent out our home.
Despite the horrible timing, we also really lucked out.
Because we had just signed on our mortgage, we had two months where we didn't have to make a house payment. That was a major blessing.
I was also able to collect unemployment, and in turn save for the next few mortgage payments while we were "rent free."
It was nice for me to be able to take a few months off. I knew there would be very few opportunities in my life that I could stay at home with Tai, and have an income.
I really took advantage of it because I needed to figure out what I wanted, and where I needed to be.
A few weeks before my unemployment stopped, I was scrolling through job openings, and an Academic Adviser position popped up. I didn't really have a background in Advising, but the salary was great, and the drive wasn't too bad.
I submitted my resume on a whim, and got a call the same day.
I interviewed the day after that, and was offered the position that evening.
It was such a whirlwind.
After losing a job I loved, being a stay at home mom for 4 months and then getting a job offer that required me to drive 25 miles through the canyon everyday (a huge fear of mine) I had no idea what to expect.
It took a lot of time to adjust to a new job, new coworkers, and a new schedule.
Looking back, I still can't believe how lucky I got.
The way everything happened, the timing of being let go, my unemployment running out and the position coming available at my new job, it all worked out perfectly.
I found out later that my work almost never hires people from job postings. I would say that 99% of our new hires come through referrals. So the fact that I got in during the small window when they were hiring, really speaks to how lucky I was and how perfect the timing was.
Without the experience I gained at 123, I would have never been able to land this job.
I love my new coworkers. I love coming to work. I have so many more opportunities than I did at my last job, and we are paid in money, not just "perks."
This whole situation has been a big "let go and let god" experience for me.
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