I have a real job.  A. REAL. JOB.  It’s been forever since I have had a real job.  I have certainly had my fair share of jobs and decent/fun jobs in my lifetime, but this one is different.  Different than anything I have ever done before.  Different, Overwhelming, Amazing, Intellectual, Creative, Stressful, Scary…I think you get that idea.  This is a 9-5 (well 8-4 in my case) job with limited vacation time and a to do list that might rival Santa’s.

I am planning out what I am responsible for and I will be doing a lot of traveling–only across my state–but it is still travel and will take me away from home on some weekends and at least one night every other week.

I am adjusting to this new work world.  It is very different than work at the university where my schedule was my own and my time off–was somewhat limitless.  I was also super bored and not at all intellectually stimulated or motivated for that job anymore.  I am motivated for this one–but the work is constant and so much of it.  I have had to force myself to separate from the work–because my list doesn’t seem to get any smaller.  I finish one thing and two more things have popped up.  My work is a bit like a gremlin.

I know how fortunate I am to have an amazing job that pays me well in an arena that I am passionate about.

I now have a greater understanding of what life was like for my husband for the past like forever.  It is taking some adjusting to go from work where it has been non-stop working and thinking to home where my little bundles of endless energy clamor for attention and it takes everything in me to not just explode for the want of some solitude and calmness.  My husband laughs.  Sometimes I just want to punch him.

But tonight my boss is taking us all out for a holiday dinner and he decided to close our office on Thursday and Friday this week–which is really nice of him.  I couldn’t ask for a better boss or better co-workers.  I couldn’t be happier with where I have landed in the grand scheme of things.  I am just looking forward to having some things in place and being able to do all that I want.  I’m ready for greatness–if only all this other crap wasn’t in my way .