Personal Update… Also, Reached A Page View Milestone Today :D

I just wanted to do a quick hello post and thank you to all of my readers [Website - TheLostGirl’s Blog]. I am thrilled to say that my humble little blog has managed the feat of receiving over 100,000 page views since it started in November last year. What a great mile stone… Every single page view is appreciated peeps

In other LostGirl news, I wanted to thank you beautiful people for all of your well wishes in starting my new job! My new position is working out really well and moving back to something I am really passionate about is one of the best things I have ever done. I won’t drivel on, but those who have been following my story will know that I was not only grossly unhappy with my old job; I was so stressed it was making me ill.

I have since left that position and moved sector, into a better kind of job for me. The new role sits firmly in my skill-set. I am good at understanding the inner workings of my chosen sector, I can work with a variety of people, I can organise, file and coordinate projects to the Nth degree if left to my own devices. My new role lets me do that and I am lucky enough to work alongside a manager (and under a general team) who trust my skills, brains, and judgement.

I never really had that before.

This is only my third real job, but my work history can be summarised like this…

I started in the charity sector. I was in a temporary subordinate position for a few months. I loved the job and the team was great. I can’t lie, I could have been managed better, but in all it was an overwhelmingly positive experience.

I then moved to the financial sector for just shy of a year. I ended up there because I got myself in a bit of a contractual bind with my rent on a new place to live. I was forced to find work, when I would otherwise not had to. This lead to what I call ‘panic job hunting’; looking for a job in a blind panic. Looking in the wrong sectors, at the wrong positions, for the wrong companies. It is so easy to be won over by the rush and end up in a tizz. The outcome of my job hunt at the time was a bloody awful job; in a sector I strongly disliked; and a job/ company that was badly mismatched with my skills and personality.

My new role/company culture is a breath of fresh air. The team are friendly. I am trusted to work under my own initiative. I am assumed to be confident and competent (which I am)… unlike my last job where I was presumed inept until I gave them reason to think otherwise.

The suffocating micro-management in itself is something I will not miss. The closeness of the working relationship may be a comfort to some people, but it suffocated me. For the good of my own health, I am now out of that environment. I feel secure and hope my trial period goes well. All is going swimmingly thus far. Cross your fingers for me that it stays that way. I (would like to think I) deserve the break

Much Love and Thanks

TheLostGirl

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