It's a done deal - I have been sucked in

[trickykitty]

I'm starting full-time work on Monday with the YMCA. Given the number of hours and how much I have been working currently, I was careful to listen to "additional duties", but they so far seem to be minimal, if none at all.

Good points:

I don't have to wait any more for someone to hire me - full time starts immediately.
I can return to part-time at the flick of a switch whenever I go back to school.
I got to set my own schedule (see below).
I already know how this place works, politics, when the stressful times are, etc.
The job really isn't that hard (for me) when I actually suck it up and just do the work.
I can drink and smoke on my own time to my little heart's content, and I can take cigarette breaks during work hours if I want, but I won't because I don't smoke at work. At least the option's there.
I don't have to train someone else to take over this job and then get phone calls from the person over the course of the next 6 months like the last time I left.
I can get away with murder here. They have no clue what I actually do. Seriously though, I really can get away with murder - this branch sits on 14 acres, 3/4+ of which is covered in woods. Do you have a body that needs to disappear?
There's an ice machine here. (Anything I can do to tell myself this is a good decision is helpful right now.)
And most importantly, I can play my own music in my office.

I really wasn't looking forward to any other job offers that had been coming up. Then again, I haven't been excited by much recently.

Hurry up and call me about movie night; that's something I can get excited about.


EDIT: my schedule
M 10-7
T 9-6
W 10-7
R 10-7
F 11-8

It would be 10-7 all days but I have a report due by 10 on Tues and have to wait for staff to turn stuff in on Friday.

Comments

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, about as much as you can sew jeans back together. I really need to start thinking more positive. I'm sure I will once I actually start seeing the results of all of this.

[seci.livejournal.com]

You will be able to see things more positively soon - and remember, while external forces help, a lot of that does come from within. You've been yearning for change, and actually you have gotten quite a bit of change, just not as fast and perhaps not exactly as it would have happened had you had total control over everything, but remember you will never be able to control every event in your life, but you can control your response to them, and the paths you take in reaction to said events.