A New Job

Wow - I had no clue so many people would be interested in my little part-time job!

I accepted a part-time admin assistant position with a local small company. We know of this company through Hubby, who is working with the owners of the company to use their training program for his discertation to get his Ph.d.

I interviewed a couple weeks ago for a technical writer/courseware developer position with them. The interview went very well . . . I liked them and their company and the culture, and they liked me and my skills and thought I had a lot to offer the company. I think it would be a great fit - I’m willing to work part-time hours, they’re willing to give me flexibile hours that I need, I don’t need benefits and they don’t offer any. It would be tough for a lot of people to accept a job there at this point.

The kicker is that they are not ready to hire that writer/courseware developer yet. This position has been on the HR priority list for about 6 months now, but it never makes it past #3 . . . everytime it gets up to #1, the find other positions they need first, like graphic artists and IT guys (small company - 7 employees). At this point, they’re waiting on a few contracts to be signed, at which time they’ll have more work than anyone will know what to do with. So for now, they offered me the admin assistant job . . . it was their way of getting me into the company until the writer position is available. I wasn’t sure about accepting it . . . if the technical writer job - the real reason I took the admin job - doesn’t come available before summer, I won’t be making enough money to send the kids to summer camp. It would be stupid to send them to summer camp that costs more than I make at a part-time job. Hubby and I went round and round on what to do, and I decided to take it and cross that bridge when we get to it.

I won’t start this job immediately either . . . probably not until the end of March . . . which was actually OK with me. I’ve gotten used to this whole SAHM thing and was trying to figure out how to make it work financially, but when this opportunity presented itself, I wanted to go for it. So now I have one more month of SAHMommyness and then it’s off to a part-time job to see if I can make it into something more.

So there . . . the scoop on the job mystery for all of you who sent me emails about it