Ch-ch-changes

I recently posted this on my Facebook, so this is repetitive for most, but I got a new job!!

I've been at my current job for 5 years.  I love my coworkers.  And I do actually like my job, I promise.  What I don't like?  The hour commute.  The 9.5 hour work days, five days a week.

This new job is 4 days a week, 8-4, and 15 minutes from home.  I can't begin to tell you how much that time means to me.  Especially now that my weekends are quickly getting booked for the summer.  That extra day off a week is my time to get housework done.  Go back to meal planning.  To run errands.

Not to mention the almost 3 more hours in my day.  I have no idea what I'll do with all that spare time!  What I do know is that I am making it a commitment to use some of that time to continue to improve my health.  I've been running some the past few weeks and am stepping it up now that nice weather has arrived. I'm still determined to run a half marathon in October.  This extra time allows longer runs during the week!

What's even nicer about this new job is it is truly a huge advance in my career.  I will learn more in one year at this job than another 5 years at my current employer.  I can't even describe how excited I am for the challenge!  Of course, I'm apprehensive, too, but that's only because it's a change.

I told myself I would wait 6 months before making any huge changes in my life, so this timing is just interesting to me...7 months and I'm making this change.  A wise coworker of mine said that once you realize that the job isn't worth the drive is when it's time to start looking for a new job.  For me, the job is great, but the drive...that time in my day.  At this point in my life, it is too valuable.  I want time with my family and friends.  Life is too short to not enjoy that aspect of my life, too.  I refuse to work my life away and not enjoy it.

This job makes me okay with working when I get a take-home baby.  I will still get to get him/her out of bed in the morning and put him/her to bed at night...and have plenty of time to enjoy my children.  It makes the reality that we can't necessarily afford for me to be a stay-at-home mom a little more bearable because I know I will still get quality time with my children.  For that I am so thankful.

I'm looking forward to a new chapter.  Onward and upward!