Onward Upward

A few weeks ago, my company’s Marketing Manager announced she was going to retire. I had been asked to think about the possibility of moving into this position a few months back when we thought retirement would be in 2014, but due to some good luck in the stock market, her retirement got moved up an entire year to the end of April. Our MM is a dear lady and we all could not be more excited for her to be able to exit the rat race a little earlier than anticipated.

But of course, it meant some decisions had to be made. I had to think about things carefully. The job is more hours than I do now, no question. It is also different work than I do currently. I have a wonderful working relationship with the people around me and the idea of giving that up was a hard one to swallow. But the Marketing Manager job takes a lot of things I’m good at and enjoy and rolls them into one crazy wild ride.

So Matt and I talked a lot about the job and what it entails.  We talked about what it would mean for our family – the good and the bad. And we were good with it. So I submitted an application for the position and I was officially hired and promoted a last week, though notification only went out today. It is a great move career-wise but more importantly, I think I can really bring some good new ideas to the position and do some wonderful things to serve my organization. It’s really exciting and a bit overwhelming.

I’m currently learning my new job and training some other people on my job and trying to keep a lot of balls in the air but it’s very exciting and I’m really looking forward to the new challenge.