Business Dress

I've been fortunate enough throughout my professional career to always work in offices that are fairly casual.  I'm not a dress up person.  Not because I can't but because I HATE shopping for nice clothes.  Nothing ever seems to fit right.  And I don't like anything all that much.  (I really need someone to nominate me for What Not to Wear.)

More importantly.  Why is it that people feel it is so important to be dressed up at work?  I understand that you want people to look presentable.  I even understand wanting them to look nice, put together, and professional giving the impression that you are put together and professional.  I just feel like what you wear has nothing to do with your ability to do your job well.  I think when I am dressed up that it actually hinders my ability to work to my full potential because I am so uncomfortable that I spend far more time than necessary fidgeting.

The New Job

It is time to start a new chapter in the book that is life....Tomorrow I start my new job.

I am excited and nervous and and happy and a lot more all at the same time....

What A Day

Today was a good day.  Just to throw this out there... My mom had a good day because she sold her first item on her Etsy store.  You could make her days better by looking and hearting her store and maybe even buying something :-). (She likes it when I promote her store and her blog.)

My day on the other hand was excellent.  I got a job offer.  Not just a job offer but a job offer for THE job that I wanted.  To all of you who told me that it would all work out and I would end up in a better place....I am now admitting that you were right.  But it is definitely easier to admit now that I am in that better place.  Interviewing has been a stressful process.  Lots of pressure to do well and find something to do.  I have had some good interviews and some really, really bad interviews but I've definitely learned a few things in the process and I am definitely glad that the process is over at this point.

I have enjoyed the last month and a half off.  I've done a lot of things on my 'to-do' list and even something from my bucket list (That post is to come.) but I'm ready to go back to work and lift the weight off my shoulders of the unemployed life.  I'm not a big fan of the unknown.  Though I have been getting better at living a little more spontaneously.  Only because I have to and I'm never sure what I'll feel like doing when I wake up in the morning.  Mostly I am ready to getting back to a routine so I have some idea of what day it is again....