I got a new job. Hooray!
Well, it isn’t exactly a new job, per se. You see, when I got the job in the plant 3 years ago, I was working at an engineering firm. I had only been there for 3 months when I got the plant job. I had always wanted to work in the plant so I left the engineering firm to try my hand at operations. Management at the firm understood and we parted ways on good terms with the understanding that I could come back there if I decided I wasn’t meant for operations.
So, I had been trying to reach management at that firm for the past 3 months so that I could find out if I could come back. I knew that the chances were fairly slim since the market was horrendous but I figured what the hell, you won’t know unless you try. True? I couldn’t ever get ahold of management over the phone and I didn’t want to leave a voicemail or send him an email because what was I going to say, “Hey I doubt you remember me but I want to come back to work for you.” Yeah that ‘s a real winner. So I tried and tried and tried some more and couldn’t get ahold of him so about 3 weeks before my last day I started getting really desperate and I left him a voicemail. I didn’t expect anything to come of it since I figured that I was probably rambling and didn’t make any sense. The message must have been somewhat coherent because my old boss called me less than a week later to tell me that they wanted to bring me back and they were just waiting on project approval to do so. I got off the phone with him optimistic and thoroughly elated but paranoid that the approval wouldn’t come through. A week later I had my offer letter in writing and I was going to be starting the first week of the new year. Just in time since I only had about 1 1/2 weeks left at the operations job until I was officially terminated.
Thankfully, things worked out and a “major” crisis was avoided.
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