I've been speaking in riddles 'round these parts for months now, implying that I was unhappy with a certain part of my life but not being very direct and choosing to just avoid the conversation instead.
It doesn't take a mathematician to guess that the certain part of my life that I was feeling restless and unsatisfied about was my job at the university, where I have been working rather discontentedly for over two years.
Friday was my last day. I had built myself a new position with a company in town that I've known for years and really adore. As an enthusiast of their brand, I had been telling them, "You're missing this and this and this. Let me show you how it could be better." I went so far as to write a full time job description so they would understand what kind of responsibilities and financial opportunities they were deeply neglecting. At the end of September, they offered me a full time job.
Then the opportunity of a lifetime knocked on my door-- an entirely different company, asking me to do similar work in another industry but on a much more demanding level and with room to meet and work with great minds. Neither company was hiring or had listed an opening. This is the part that keeps stunning me when I stop to think about it and I'm even hesitant to write about it here. I'll be mid-sentence about something else entirely and then find myself shocked into silence, mouth hanging open in wonder, mind wandering. I'm the qualified person? My time at the university has been a learning experience and my co-workers and managers have been wildly supportive but it just hasn't been an environment where I can thrive. When you're stuck in a position with no room to grow, it's difficult to remember your own endless potential. That's why I escaped.
I'll tell you this: the new job is social media management in technology / business and I could not be happier. I pinched myself at my desk this afternoon, on day two, to see if it's all a dream. So far, it's real. (No one saw, I looked around first.)
I'm not a know-it-all of anything. I'm not someone that brags. But I am recklessly ambitious, persistent, eternally grateful for my life, never done learning, humbled, and beside myself.
Mostly I want to say that none of this would have played out the way it has without the incredible network of support and relationships I've built in Boulder since 2007. Thank you, friends. The people in my little world here have made it quite impossible for me to fail. Stumble? Sure. Fail? Never. They spot me while I lift more than is safe. Now watch my face turn red while I pull some muscles.
