So I've done it. After 2 1/2 years of lousy pay, crappy benefits and lax rules I'm finally leaving my first real office job.

It's definitely one of those bitter sweet deals because things were going well in terms of our new team but even though I wasn't specifically looking to leave something came along that was way too good to refuse. It's not a job I would ever have thought I'd be doing but it's something that I'd dreamed of being a part of. You know it wasn't like that unreachable dream of one day being a star on Broadway but more of one of those "I can do that I just don't have the experience" type jobs.

But even though I have no experience there are some obvious drawbacks but there is so much potential for growth that I would never be able to get where I am at my job now. In two years, I will still be just a writer. In ten years, I will still be just a writer. With this new job, I could potentially be a planner if I can prove myself. In ten years, I could be a business owner. That sounds sweet.

The drawbacks, of course there are cons- it can never be perfect, are that I'll be working part time until I can show what I got (which is a whole lotta sass. Ha!). Now, in this not so perfect world I have been offered the perfect solution to being a part time employee- my current job has offered me my job on a part-time basis (project based because it's sad to think that all this time my job could have just been on a part time basis). Remember what I said in the beginning about this place being all-around crappy? I take it back on account of this. There are some really great parts about it. Like being able to resign and still be offered work. I love it.

But in the mean time (you can't rely on these people) I applied for a sales position and I have an interview next Thursday. Sales has always been one of those things that always seemed mind numbingly boring (I got stuck selling fabric as a 13-year-old to make money for my summer trips to Disney World. I. sold. fabric. That was it.) But I've always felt this desire to open up my own shop and sell jewelry, and now, of course, all my fancy crocheted things! So it would be a smart move to see the workings of keeping a shop (this store sells the cutest gifts and they also have a paper store.)

With that all said and done and assuming I am offered a part time sales position at the shop, I believe I can do all three (She-ra had sass and the power to do anything she put her mind to, OK, I'm just taking after my mentor). But I'm nervous that, as usual, my current job will suck the life out of me asking me to do everything until I'm at the brink of insanity when it is my future part time job (the one where eventually I will be screaming "show me the money"!) that I HAVE to focus on. At least if I took the option of mind-numbingly-boring-sales job I wouldn't be expected of so much. Or I could just have no life and do all three like the greedy side of me (and my bank account) is telling me to.


Was she ready for another thrilling episode?