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Fiery Millennials

Financial Independence from a millennial's point of view.

Career Update 2

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After a long, stress­ful, sus­pense­ful week at work, I final­ly got a call late Thurs­day afternoon.

I GOT THE JOB!

I’m SO EXCITED!

^Very much what I looked like at my desk after I got the call.

The Deets

I will be mov­ing one step up the lad­der! My new job will be tak­ing care of the IT needs for the top exec­u­tives in the com­pa­ny, their admin assis­tants, and the Pub­lic Affairs office which is about 100 peo­ple all told. My career time­line might be short­er than most, but it’s still a very good step for me.

I don’t know quite when I start my new posi­tion yet. My soon-to-be-for­mer man­ag­er is out of the office on vaca­tion this week, so I have to wait for his go ahead before I get to set a firm date. I have to start it by Jan­u­ary 1st, as that’s when my cur­rent posi­tion ends. I have to start it by Decem­ber 17th, as that’s when my lease ends. I’m aim­ing to start the new job Decem­ber 5th, but that’s based on me find­ing a place to live, sign­ing the papers, and get­ting my stuff moved. I don’t real­ly care if all my stuff does­n’t get moved by the 5th. I can live out of a suit­case and sleep on an air mat­tress until the movers do their magic.

My new job will be like com­ing home. My very first posi­tion with the com­pa­ny was as an intern at the Head­quar­ters build­ing. I will be going back to the same man­ag­er, which just goes to show how very impor­tant net­work­ing and main­tain­ing rela­tion­ships in the com­pa­ny is to your career. I knew I want­ed to come back to this career field, so I made it a point to stop in and say hi when I was in the area, sent Mer­ry Christ­mas emails every year, and just gen­er­al­ly stayed in touch. This paid off in spades! I was the first per­son to hear about new job open­ings on their team.

I got incred­i­bly lucky with this job. Mega­Corp is going through a bit of a tumul­tuous time — lay­offs, reorgs, and vol­un­tary sep­a­ra­tion pack­ages. The only rea­son this job got post­ed imme­di­ate­ly, instead of wait­ing until the rest of the jobs went up, is due to the crit­i­cal nature of the team. It’s a 3 per­son team, and 2 of the spots would’ve been vacant.

This came at the per­fect time for mul­ti­ple rea­sons. My rent went up 60% when my lease end­ed and I went month to month (so ridicu­lous). My soon-to-be-for­mer team­mates are becom­ing tox­ic to be around. A few of them are ok, but the rest do NOT like me. I’m not quite sure why, as I’m always per­fect­ly friend­ly and actu­al­ly go out of my way not to irri­tate them. The depth of her dis­like was revealed ear­li­er in the week when anoth­er cowork­er clued me into some dra­ma she was try­ing to start. I’ve known for quite some time she talks about me behind my back, but I did­n’t real­ly care until now. The only rea­son I cared is because she said I was a ter­ri­ble work­er that should be fired instead of giv­en a raise and a new job. If she knew who I was inter­view­ing with, she would’ve called them and told them not to hire me. I’m not a fan of peo­ple try­ing to sab­o­tage my career. So, I report­ed her to HR and am let­ting them take care of it. Her threats are use­less and base­less (and actu­al­ly make her look super pet­ty and bad), but if she’s will­ing to go to such lengths for me you can bet she’s doing the same to oth­er peo­ple. Not a great envi­ron­ment to be in every day!

The oth­er rea­son I’m excit­ed is due to the tim­ing. My new job goes into effect Decem­ber 1st. Bonus­es come out Decem­ber 15th. Since I am now one step high­er on the lad­der, my bonus will be accord­ing­ly high­er! I will delve more into the finan­cial aspect of this in anoth­er post so I can go into more detail, but I’m pret­ty con­fi­dent this will be a nice chunk of change to use as a down pay­ment for a rental prop­er­ty.  Who does­n’t love more money!?!

What’s Next

For the fore­see­able future, my focus will be on find­ing a place to live, nav­i­gat­ing the hol­i­day sea­son, find­ing my foot­ing and try­ing to get up to speed as quick­ly as pos­si­ble. After the first of the year I plan on start­ing the hunt for a new rental prop­er­ty. I am for­tu­nate my new/old town has a lot of mul­ti­fam­i­ly prop­er­ties, unlike my cur­rent city. I will also have to uti­lize my down time bet­ter, as this new job will not be a strict­ly 9–5, 40 hours per week kind of deal. I am used to work­ing on this blog at work dur­ing my down time and I know I will have much less of that (if any at all).

All in all, I am very much look­ing for­ward to this posi­tion as I’ll be sur­round­ed by friends, clos­er to fam­i­ly, and doing work I love. What more could I ask for?

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  1. Love the Always Sun­ny gif! And lucky tim­ing on the bonus!

    I’m also glad you get to get away from tox­ic cowork­ers. That shiz is just not worth being around, and it’s great that you’re get­ting paid even more to get away from it.

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    • I real­l­l­l­l­l­lyyyyyyy want to rub it in her face but there’s lit­er­al­ly no point so I’ll let it go. I’ll just con­tent myself with the knowl­edge that my new and improved life will irri­tate her even more 😀

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  2. Yay yay yay! I am so hap­py that you got the job! It just goes to show that good things hap­pen when you stick to your guns and do hard work. 🙂

    Geez, I’m sor­ry to hear about that cowork­er. What a witch. Some peo­ple don’t have bet­ter things to do. At least you’re get­ting away from a bad team and mov­ing up the ladder. 🙂 

    Keep us post­ed as you get set­tled! Hope­ful­ly the rent will be more afford­able at your next place.
    Mrs. Picky Pinch­er recent­ly post­ed…Guest Post: 6 Great Ideas on How to Cut Back on Your Food CostsMy Profile

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    • Thanks Mrs. Picky Pinch­er! Ide­al­ly I’ll find a new place tomor­row, but I’m aware that’s the best case sce­nario lol. I will for sure keep all of you updated!

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  3. Con­grat­u­la­tions, this is awe­some news. Its nice that things are about to set­tle down and you can pur­sue the rental prop­er­ty angle again.

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    • Thanks TJ! I’m super over room­mates at this stage in my life but I def­i­nite­ly want that income stream!

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      • But room­mates can speed up time to FIRE! Ha.

        I’ve very pleased to not have reached the stage of being “over room­mates”. It has saved me tens of thou­sands of dol­lars in (non-)expenses in recent years. 😉

        When I briefly lived alone, I got pret­ty lone­ly though. Some room­mates have def­i­nite­ly been bet­ter than others. 😀
        TJ recent­ly post­ed…Why Isn’t Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty Personal?My Profile

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        • Not every­thing is about opti­miz­ing time to FIRE. I place a high val­ue on being able to wear my birth­day suit when­ev­er I want! 😀

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  8. Oh wow, con­grat­u­la­tions!! That sounds per­fect for you. To be hon­est, the only peo­ple who have ever dis­liked me are those who are weird­ly jeal­ous of me. Not say­ing that in a big head­ed way, just some­thing that hap­pens to every­one lol. Before you think loads of peo­ple dis­like me I can nar­row it down to like…3 peo­ple in my life­time. That I know of haha. 2 of them ex co-work­ers who were incred­i­bly jeal­ous — one being my boss.
    Lit­er­al­ly because our clients and col­leagues loved me but hat­ed her. One of the man­agers of anoth­er office banned his work­ers from speak­ing to her. She tried to make my life hell! It was ridicu­lous. After I left she said that it looked like I was real­ly good at my job, but I was just fak­ing it. How nuts is that?!
    Anyway,the point of that bit of rant (!) was to say I’m sure you’ve done noth­ing wrong — some peo­ple just dis­like oth­ers because they wish that they could be them.
    Francesca — From Pen­nies to Pounds recent­ly post­ed…Flea Mar­ket Flip­ping – Earn Extra Mon­ey Buy­ing Low And Sell­ing HighMy Profile

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    • YES. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am basi­cal­ly every­thing she’s not. At the begin­ning of my (promis­ing) career, skin­ny, young, sin­gle, child­free, and able to do basi­cal­ly what­ev­er I want. Pret­ty sure that’s at the root of her dis­like. I will be here for maybe two more weeks, and I will con­tin­ue to just ignore her exis­tence. Work­ing out great so far!

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  9. Con­grats! Def­i­nite­ly sounds like a great win for you. Get­ting out of that tox­ic envi­ron­ment (i can’t believe that co-work­er!) and also from a finan­cial per­spec­tive, I could­n’t imag­ine it going any bet­ter for you. You’ll have a lot to cel­e­brate this hol­i­day season!
    The Green Swan recent­ly post­ed…Mon­ey Mis­takes By DecadeMy Profile

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    • Thanks Fritz! I’m look­ing for­ward to low­er expens­es and high­er income! (And meet­ing all the exec­u­tives. So cool!)

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  12. I’m so hap­py for you! Knew you would get it! (So there, that blaz­er WAS worth it!)

    I’m sor­ry to hear that you have such tox­ic peo­ple in your life, but at least that part will be over soon and HR will take care of the rest. Room­mates are the worst, so rare that it actu­al­ly works out well. I’ve giv­en up on room­mates real­ly. I don’t care how much cheap­er it makes a place. But then again, I’m also lucky to be part­nered up already. 

    Busy sea­son is com­ing up but now you have some pos­i­tive news to go with it!

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    • That blaz­er is going to get a lot of use now that I’m work­ing with the top exec­u­tives! Eeks! It will be busy but good (new nephew on the way yay!)

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  13. I’m sor­ry you’re deal­ing with so much neg­a­tiv­i­ty! I feel bad for peo­ple like your cowork­er who lash out at oth­ers because they’re inse­cure them­selves. Sounds like your new role is going to be awe­some and so hap­py for you!

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    • Thanks Julie! She’s a mis­er­able per­son for sure. I’m hap­py to wash my hands of the situation!

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