{"id":3258,"date":"2009-11-19T06:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2009-11-19T06:16:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T11:16:24","slug":"the-power-of-positive-thinking-or-good-things-are-worth-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/19\/the-power-of-positive-thinking-or-good-things-are-worth-waiting-for\/","title":{"rendered":"The power of positive thinking, or Good things are worth waiting for"},"content":{"rendered":"

G<\/span>uess what I’m doing today?<\/p>\n

*impish grin*<\/p>\n

I’m starting my new job!!! Yes, that <\/em>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 <\/em>job!<\/p>\n

*happy dance*<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “The power of positive thinking, or Good things are worth waiting for”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-is-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3260,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}