A few weeks ago a friend and I "white-boarded" (wrote out a "wish list" on a white-board) everything I wanted/desired in a job. A few days later I received an email from a non-profit organization in Denver. I set up a phone interview with them and then had two further face-to-face interviews for this position. This was THE job that we had white-boarded!!! It had everything that I was desiring, and I was 100% confident that I would get hired.
This past Friday I found out that I did not get the "dream job" that I so confidently thought I had landed. I was crushed. It was THE white-board job; I could not have designed a more perfect, well-suited job for myself. So, after a long day of sadness and tears followed by a late night junk food binge and even more tears, I was determined to make the best out of the situation and reminded myself that everything happens for a reason and what's meant to be will be.
Fast-forward to tonight. When I got off of work, I noticed that I had two missed calls and a voicemail from a 478 area-code. Guess what!!?!??! I had left one HUGE, monumental detail off of my white-board dream job list. "Located in Colorado" never even crossed my mind while brainstorming the list. And, that 478 area-code isn't even close to Colorado. Instead, it's about 2,000 miles southeast in a little town called Warner Robins, GA.
Yep, that voicemail was from my previous principal who runs the BEST middle school with the BEST students and teachers (well, with the exception of one) around!!! My old principal was calling to possibly offer me a position at Bonaire Middle School. WOW!!!
If you aren't familiar with Georgia State Schools, you may not understand. Houston County is THE place that teachers want to teach. Teachers would literally kill (yeah, I even thought about it this past spring... Sorry Terri!!!) to get into and some wait years for a position to
open up. On top of that, Bonaire Middle School is by far the best in the county when it comes to academics and athletics. And, you know how competitive I am!! I'm sure there's several teachers around the area who are extremely interested in this potential position. And now I'm 2,000 miles away, and they want ME. Geeeez... Nothing like making this life even more difficult on a girl right now.
So, now I have a HUGE decision to make. I love Colorado; I don't want to leave. (Most of) the people are great. I'm making friends, and I feel like I'm getting, yet again, another fresh start to life. But...
This is an ideal job. It, too, is the job that I had white-boarded. I have a ton of amazing people there who truly love and care about me. My favorite students/ players and their parents are there. Telisa, Jody, Joel, Sandy, and several others are there. It's only five hours away from my family. It's a job that people would kill for.
Honestly, if she would have offered me this position in April, I would have never made it to Colorado. But now everything has changed. I've made so much personal progress and have become a better, stronger person because of this move. If I go back to Georgia, it would feel like I'm taking a giant step backwards, not forwards. I know that I have so much ahead of me, and I don't want to lose any ground now. I wouldn't be growing as an individual, and that is something that is very important to me. However, this is my dream job. I love working there, and I miss the job, (most of) the people, and the kids sooooo much.
All I can do is pray about this before I make a decision. I don't want to discount this because it IS an amazing offer, and I love and miss everything there. I know I ultimately have to do what makes ME the happiest; I'm just not 100% sure I know what that is right now.
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