The power of positive thinking, or Good things are worth waiting for

Guess what I’m doing today?

*impish grin*

I’m starting my new job!!! Yes, that job, the one that appeared out of the blue to land on my lap like a gift, then broke my heart when it disappeared due to budget constraints. The one with the excellent team, the cool social media factor, the 2-hours-less-per-day commuting time, the wicked-cool multimedia aspect… yep, that job!

*happy dance*

For a couple of weeks around the end of October into the beginning of November, partly because of losing the opportunity and partly due to whatever else ever causes the blues, I was in quite a funk. Last weekend, I started feeling a lot brighter, and on Monday I decided to make a conscious effort to shake it off. I happened to need to change my password for system access, and decided to incorporate the word “happy” into the 10-character string, just as additional motivation and a reminder that I’m in control of my own life.

It was mid-afternoon on the very next day when I got an e-mail out of the blue saying they’d received funding approval for the position, when could I start? Funny, I just had a feeling that it would all work out, but I’d expected to have to take a much longer-term view than a couple of weeks!

As excited as I am, I’m also nervous as hell. Changing government departments for the first time in 20 years, changing jobs, actually taking on a management job when I swore I never would, the intimidation of learning a whole new organizational structure… yikes! For someone who doesn’t deal well with change, it’s a hell of a lot of change all at once.

But you know what more than makes up for my fear of change? I don’t have to take the bus. Sayonara, OC Transpo! Isn’t that the sweetest icing on an already pretty sweet cake?

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