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batyatoon ([personal profile] batyatoon) wrote2004-12-01 10:24 pm

...so okay, in other news...

... I have a job offer. And I'm taking it.

Fulltime. Office secretary at a local Jewish girls' school.

This spells the end of my happy-go-lucky half-the-week-free part-time-job existence. This is a serious commitment. This is looking perilously like a career decision.

This will earn me more than twice annually what I'm making now.

I'm terrified.
Somebody hold me.

[identity profile] cadhla.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
*holds you*

Love you, sweetheart.

[identity profile] doeeyedbunny.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov on the new job!

This is looking perilously like a career decision.
Just remember, carerer choices are not carved in granite. You can change careers at any point in your life. I know a woman who started her third career at age 70.

[identity profile] chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov from both of us. You should be fine (says the full-time high school secretary *g*).

[identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov!

*cuddles you*

[identity profile] redaxe.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov, Congo Rats, and all those other good things!
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[identity profile] mamadeb.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds wonderful, Batya.

If frighteningly grown-up. :)

Perspective

[identity profile] mannoftalent.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Worse comes to worse you can quit! Also think of it this way. You can be earning $$ during all the timne you spent on a bus transiting across New Jersey now!
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[personal profile] mtgat 2004-12-02 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
Job!! Yay!!!! *does the Dance of Gainful Employment*

[identity profile] figmo.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
What's to be terrified of? Someone wants to throw money at you? Congratulations!

[identity profile] ursulevil.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats! I envy those girls, because I can see it now, the Troubled One getting sent to the office, striking up a conversation with the wise and wonderful secretary, who turns her life around through filk.

*grin*

[identity profile] greektoomey.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! Congratulations!

You'll do great.
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[personal profile] genarti 2004-12-02 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Adulthood is scary sometimes, innit?

*pouncehugcuddle*

You'll do wonderfully, though. I am entirely certain of it.

And remember, even career decisions aren't set in stone. I know several people who made major changes later in life. And, for now at least, you have twice the money and a job that sounds like the kind of thing you could enjoy a lot.

Congratulations! *bounce*

[identity profile] kimpire.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Mazal Tov!

...except no more Milliwaysing with me....


*cry*
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[personal profile] camwyn 2004-12-02 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
Definitely mazel tov. And I'll gladly hold.

[identity profile] nightface.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov! More money good, you in environment to influence girls positively - even better.(because you will!)
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[personal profile] patoadam 2004-12-02 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Go you! Congratulations!

[identity profile] bardling.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 09:40 am (UTC)(link)
*hugs*
Exciting news - I wish you all the best for the new job. May you have friendly coworkers and a positive work environment there. The rest, I'm pretty sure you can do & sort out yourself just fine. :)

Good luck!

[identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 11:38 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on full-time employment!

[identity profile] pocketnaomi.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 12:24 pm (UTC)(link)
*HUGHUGHUGHUGHUGHUG*

[identity profile] dimloep-suum.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for employment! Yay for Batya! *hug*

[identity profile] mabfan.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov!

*airholds you*
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[personal profile] piemancer 2004-12-02 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
*fluffs your aura*
I do hope they all realize what a treasue they have in you.
I hope you realize that too, for that matter.


While i'm hoping for things, i hope your first vacation is to Seattle.

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! I hope it turns out wonderfully.

[identity profile] catalana.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! *big hug* I hope you enjoy your work and your co-workers!

This is looking perilously like a career decision.

Yes, but you can always make another career decision if this one doesn't work. That's the nice thing about it; despite what my students seem to think, you really aren't making a life-long commitment yet. You can change your mind. You can run off to England like my folks did a decade ago. Or you can move across the country like they did this year...or you can less dramatically just change jobs or job paths while staying in the same place. *grin* Lots of options. So enjoy this as a start - the question isn't "Is this what I want to do forever?" but "Is this something good for me now?"

Best of luck!


[identity profile] beckyfeld.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Mazal Tov! *HUG*

[identity profile] porpentine.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Do airholds work the same as airhugs? If so, have another.

[identity profile] xkranda.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
*holds you*

Mazel tov!!

[identity profile] antiquated-tory.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! No worries, love, I'm sure you will totally kick tuchas and this school will be the model of well-runnedness.

Plus, having a full-time job in a school administration, you'll have something to complain about to the rest of us!!

[identity profile] mrlogic.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds great! Congrats and may it turn out to be fun!

[identity profile] ladymondegreen.livejournal.com 2004-12-02 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
*late to the party* Mazel tov!

*holds you and does the hair strokey thing*
(Thank god you can't catch my cold across the intenet)
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[personal profile] gorgeousgary 2004-12-03 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
You don't want us to hold you...then we'd be keeping you from running out and spending your newfound wealth on books and CD's and cons and stuff! (Well, unless you just dragged us along...).

Congratulations and best of luck!

[identity profile] dotsomething.livejournal.com 2004-12-03 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! *hugs* That sounds perfect for you.

[identity profile] drcpunk.livejournal.com 2004-12-07 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov!