Making the transition
Good Saturday morning to all. We're supposed to have a couple of great weather days here in central Kentucky, with moderate temperatures and somewhat less humidity. And we actually had some rain a couple of times in the past week, which is a rarity this time of year!
I thought I'd post this morning concerning my work status. As you know, I don't delve into specific names nor do I often talk about my occupational life very often. But this is a little different.
For the first time since 1996, I voluntarily left a position in order to accept another. Between then and now, though, I've involuntarily left five positions, mostly due to the sales or reorganizations of my employers.
Not this time.
I have been exploring the market to some degree for a while, as I'm still working to recover the ground I lost during an extended period of unemployment last year. The job I was in was satisfactory in most respects, but its compensation was considerably lower than what I had done previously, so financially it wasn't what I wanted.
I learned of the position I ultimately accepted about two months ago, and applied formally at the beginning of June. I went through their extensive selection process and was offered the position on July 19, and gave my notice to my now-former employer on that same day.
The most interesting part of this process is how unsettled I've felt. Not because I felt I was making a bad decision; quite the contrary, my new position will put me in touch with many of the contacts I've cultivated over the past nine months, and will offer growth opportunities that my former position could not.
And one of the oddities of this scenario is the former company's policy requiring a four-week notice of resignation, due largely to the type of business they're in. This also ensures a full payout of accumulated but unused paid time off, no small thing for someone who has not taken much time off in his tenure but has accrued a fair amount of time off.
Anyway, the limbo was because I knew that my new employer wanted me to begin work sooner than later, but I didn't know what my old employer would do regarding an early release from that notice. But yesterday we worked it all out and I finished my employment with the old employer and officially start with the new one on Monday, but won't really do anything until I start training in south Florida on Wednesday.
Do I regret not having some time in between the two jobs? A little, but since giving my notice I've been kind of marking time, careful not to start anything that I could not finish in my remaining time with the former company. I've had a fair amount of down time in the past couple of weeks. So I don't feel that I've missed the opportunity for a mental health break, particularly since my former position wasn't all that stressful.
So I'm relieved, excited and optimistic. In the last twenty years, the relief is usually the overriding emotion, as I was seldom expecting to change jobs. This has been a different experience, of course, but made gratifying by the many good wishes I received from the business contacts with whom I've worked for the past nine months.
So on we go. Will keep you posted!
I thought I'd post this morning concerning my work status. As you know, I don't delve into specific names nor do I often talk about my occupational life very often. But this is a little different.
For the first time since 1996, I voluntarily left a position in order to accept another. Between then and now, though, I've involuntarily left five positions, mostly due to the sales or reorganizations of my employers.
Not this time.
I have been exploring the market to some degree for a while, as I'm still working to recover the ground I lost during an extended period of unemployment last year. The job I was in was satisfactory in most respects, but its compensation was considerably lower than what I had done previously, so financially it wasn't what I wanted.
I learned of the position I ultimately accepted about two months ago, and applied formally at the beginning of June. I went through their extensive selection process and was offered the position on July 19, and gave my notice to my now-former employer on that same day.
The most interesting part of this process is how unsettled I've felt. Not because I felt I was making a bad decision; quite the contrary, my new position will put me in touch with many of the contacts I've cultivated over the past nine months, and will offer growth opportunities that my former position could not.
And one of the oddities of this scenario is the former company's policy requiring a four-week notice of resignation, due largely to the type of business they're in. This also ensures a full payout of accumulated but unused paid time off, no small thing for someone who has not taken much time off in his tenure but has accrued a fair amount of time off.
Anyway, the limbo was because I knew that my new employer wanted me to begin work sooner than later, but I didn't know what my old employer would do regarding an early release from that notice. But yesterday we worked it all out and I finished my employment with the old employer and officially start with the new one on Monday, but won't really do anything until I start training in south Florida on Wednesday.
Do I regret not having some time in between the two jobs? A little, but since giving my notice I've been kind of marking time, careful not to start anything that I could not finish in my remaining time with the former company. I've had a fair amount of down time in the past couple of weeks. So I don't feel that I've missed the opportunity for a mental health break, particularly since my former position wasn't all that stressful.
So I'm relieved, excited and optimistic. In the last twenty years, the relief is usually the overriding emotion, as I was seldom expecting to change jobs. This has been a different experience, of course, but made gratifying by the many good wishes I received from the business contacts with whom I've worked for the past nine months.
So on we go. Will keep you posted!
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