Congratulate Me.

     

     Lol. Just kidding - not about that.

     About me becoming a co-manager at Ventures (we'll continue to call it, I think), where I work.

     It's not exactly my dream job, I must say, and I did have to put my education on a more-extended hold to accept the promotion, but I did it for the following reasons:

• Although retail is extremely stressful and is not, as I mentioned, my dream job, I am good at it. Really good, if I do say so, myself, and since no one else is knocking down my door with better opportunity, I figure I have to accept my chances as they're offered to me. Ventures has been good to me, and I think this job is worth giving a shot.
• Secondly, I am having a hard time making ends meet, only receiving a part-timer's paycheck, and even though Dan and I are thankful the apartment-type space we have at my parents', we are not exactly out of our minds with joy about having to stay there. Also, my family might be moving, themselves, so we (Dan and I) have been thinking for some time that it would be best for us to start planning for another place of our own. That means at least one us has to get a full-time job - if it has to be me, it has to be me.
• Thirdly, I recently changed my major for the third (or is it the fourth...?) time, and I am really starting to think that I am flat-out unsure about all future-related things but two: that I want to be married with a family, and that I want to write. Both of those things I can do with career at Ventures, and until I can make longer-lasting, more satisfying goals for myself...I think am cool with this.

     As always, I will not pretend to know what the future holds for me. I just do the best I can with what I've got, pray for guidance, and try to stay positive...but here's hoping, right?