I haven’t been on Tumblr in FOREVER. Most just been posting pictures from Instagram for the last month and a half. That’s because, in that time, I’ve moved on to a new, busier (in some ways) chapter in my life.

In the middle of October, I was supposed to get laid off from my job after asking my Regional Manager to do so because the job I was hired to do no longer existed, and everyone except myself in my division had been laid off. I was being asked to fulfill duties not only outside of my job description, but outside of my capabilities, with no support and no guidance. At the last minute, my Regional Manager changed his mind and decided not to lay me off. Long story short, I decided that I just needed to quit and was at a loss of where to go from there, but the same day that my Regional Manager decided not to lay me off, I talked to my former boss and she helped me get a job with the company she is acting as a consultant for, and thus my new company.

I went from being an Assistant to the Director to now being the Guest Services Director for a different, MUCH BETTER, property management company. I have to work at the Front Desk and have receptionist duties, but that doesn’t matter because I’m now in a position of authority. I’m actually in charge of a whole staff and I get to make decisions on how things should go. My boss values me just as much as my last boss did, and even more so, the higher ups that my boss answers to, value me just as much.

I never would have thought that I’d be in property management when I graduated from college (heck, I didn’t even know it was an industry to work in!), but being in this field for over the last year and a half, I’ve done pretty well if I do say so myself. I haven’t been the happiest with it, but I think it had a lot to do with the crappy company I worked for and some co-workers that were just negative Nancy’s all the time.

My dream is still to work with youth, but right now I just don’t know how I want to do that. And it’s taken a while, but I’m finally embracing the fact that I’m good at what I do in property management and that I’m here for a reason, because if I wasn’t supposed to be, then I wouldn’t have gotten this great opportunity presented to me when I most needed it.

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