My week started out incredibly! On Monday morning I walk into work like it was any other day. It's the first day my manager is back from being out sick since Tuesday the week before so I was giving him the rundown on what took place and what I felt he needed to take care of. Now mind you, I wasn’t being a snot, this is my job being basically 2nd in command and being shoved into responsibility while he was sick. It was not a very easy week on me.
So my day continues, stressful as usual. I tell my manager that I think it would be good to have a meeting with him to discuss some things in the department. He agrees that it’s needed. At 12:30 we meet and by 1:30 he’s telling me he’s late for a meeting with the CEO that I might have to be apart of. I have no clue what this is all about, so I ask him if he really wants me in the meeting and he states not at the moment but most likely later. I go start my surprisingly large deposit for the day and then get called back to discuss what we as Tech Support can do to alleviate the stress in the billing department. This is where I get defensive because I don’t feel the company sees how much stress is already on the tech support team. But either way I’m stuck listening to what they think would be good ideas while in my head thinking they must be out of their mind to add another task on us especially when the support department is in such disarray. And at one point feel the embarrassment of feeling like I crossed the line with the CEO of the company when I spoke for my manager instead of letting him speak for himself. At this point I just shut my mouth. The meeting ended and my manager was requested to stay behind. Then the billing manager was pulled into the office. I took the opportunity to apologize to my manager and state that I was out of line. He disagreed with my fear of being out of line and appreciated my input.
Then it happens…The whole course of my life changes. The CEO calls me into his office and here I’m thinking I’m in trouble for talking out of line. But it was quite the opposite actually. I was given a business proposition. I was actually offered a substantial promotion! The promotion included a fairly large increase in income as well. The increase will be starting with an additional $1.50 more an hour, and after the first 90 days going up another $2.00 an hour. This was a huge opportunity! I would be working full time in the billing department. I would give up tech support all together and work in the position the current billing manager is, without that title though, and do her job while she did partial management and book keeping.
So here I am thrilled and scared at the same time. This is a huge step for me. It’s in a direction that I never knew I would take. I didn’t answer him right away. I told him I’d like a day to pray about it. I prayed and felt comfortable that it would be helpful to my career but hadn’t realized I would take this step. I talked it over with everyone that is important in my life. I wanted to know if they had any reservations about it, and no one did, they only had very positive things to say about it. I especially wanted to talk with my brother Brian. I wanted to make sure he was ok because I know my involvement in Scidco is something that he wants. I told him this could benefit Scidco in the long run. I could learn and when he’s actually able to hire me on full time I could take care of office management and books. I’m very excited about this new direction. I have that natural fear of failure but also realize that this is what I believe to be from God. I know I can do this!
Anyways, this is a novel as it is. I’m going to stop writing so I can go crash… I’m exhausted!
Goodnight.
posted by Charity at 1/13/2004 10:05:00 PM 
