{"id":20,"date":"2008-09-03T22:20:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T04:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/baby1\/?p=17"},"modified":"2011-03-11T22:45:46","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:45:46","slug":"the-saga-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/2008\/09\/the-saga-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"the saga continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;font-style: italics\">(This post is pre-dated to keep with the time line of events. -RB)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I started a new job this week. Well&#8230; new position, old company.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone that I have talked to in the last year about work knows that I was going through a period of restlessness as a web developer for the company I had been with for 6 and a half years. I left last January to pursue different work as a web developer, knowing that I eventually wanted spread my wings and move up. In small companies that&#8217;s hard to do. In big companies that is easier to do, but there is a catch&#8230; you have to buy into that company&#8217;s culture and find your place before that happens. Once I made the transition, I quickly found out the hard way how much that culture comes into play in job satisfaction, and I wasn&#8217;t buying into this one.<\/p>\n<p>Like an old friend, I stayed in contact with my old company and I even had informal discussions about the possibilities of a return, should certain positions become available&#8230; all the while knowing that it could be YEARS before that happened.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; during my mission trip to Costa Rica. I got a phone call from the old company and the position I had named as my top choice to fill and rejoin the company, had become available!! I was asked to call and do a phone interview and start as soon as possible! Apparently I still had a few advocates, and I thank them for supporting me and putting my name at the top of the list of replacements. It was an answer to a prayer I wasn&#8217;t actively praying. I knew I had made the right choice to leave in the first place to spread my wings, but the new company was not the place I saw myself being successful or even happy.<\/p>\n<p>The intangibles of job satisfaction are hard to duplicate. I am happier now and more so than I have been in a long while. My new position, Director of E-Commerce, is challenging with a touch of familiarity. I&#8217;m back to learning every single day and love what I am learning. I thank God for knowing my heart and where my happiness lies. I wouldn&#8217;t trade them for the world.<\/p>\n<p>-RB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(This post is pre-dated to keep with the time line of events. -RB) I started a new job this week. Well&#8230; new position, old company. Anyone that I have talked to in the last year about work knows that I was going through a period of restlessness as a web developer for the company I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-randy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/family\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}