Just a Job

My job search has ended and my days of unemployment are soon behind me. I will start my job as an order tracker at Safeguard Business Systems on the 22nd. I am happy that I won't have to spend all of our savings to hold us over so we can still move this year, but as for the job itself, I wish I were more excited. They are in a good part of town, over in the business area on the west side of Riverpark, and they are paying me what I wanted. I should be thrilled, but the industry is business printing and promotional items which is nowhere close to real estate or law and the job, at least from their description of it, sounds too easy for the set of skills I have aquired over the years. The title alone makes me shudder- order tracker. Buhhh. A big part of me feels like I need to stay in a more glamorous industry and work in a more mentally demanding job, but then I realize that after 6 years straight of full time especially mentally demanding jobs I probably deserve an easy job in an industry that I'm not so emotionally connected to. Just a job to pay the bills.

I also feel a little conflicted spiritually. I really didn't receive any confirmation in my heart that this was the right job for me. I didn't really feel anything to the contrary either. I talked to Art about it and he said that he thinks that just because it isn't exactly the "right" thing for me doesn't mean that I shouldn't do it or that it won't work out. I think he's right. So for now it's "just a job" to me, but who knows- perhaps there is more in store for me than I realize. And maybe after my probation period I can talk them into giving me a better title... like Executive Order Supervisor or something. That would look way better on my resume.