Weekend Update Celebrates Autumn
Sep. 22nd, 2018 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonIt's September 22 and it's now officially autumn, my favorite time of the year! Even though we don't really get the foliage colors here, and the weather in the hood remains a stubborn low-60s-with-85%-humidity (ouch), I always enjoy this time. It's the New Englander in me, I get all wistful and creative and nostalgic and all that, heh.
A and I have been talking about updating our resumes lately. Neither of us have updated ours in years (my last iteration was in 2014, hers MUCH earlier than that). She's been taking some online job search workshops and doing some research on the many and various companies that have corporate HQs here in the city. I did a very brief update to mine a few days ago but realize that I'm going to need to completely rewrite and revise it. I'll be looking into that over the next few weeks. Since I have a good solid bank background at this point, I've been thinking of looking further into that field. In the city, of course. I've also made peace with the fact that I might have to start commuting and working outside the home. As I'd said yesterday on my Bridgetown blog, it upended my initial plans and threw me for a loop, but I can still make this work. It'll be tough, but I can make it happen. I just need a goal, a clear mind, and a lot of determination.
Yeah, I know... I go through this phase a lot, don't I? Deciding to change, I get all excited about it, make big plans...and then it wears off and I'm back to my static, stoic self again a month or so later. Well... I'm hoping to change that as well. I'm bloody sick of that cycle. It makes me miserable and depressed and I hate it. It's me sliding back into the same damn comfort zone again and again and it gets me nowhere. It's not where I should be. It's not where I want to be. It's not where I need to be.
It's scary as hell and I'm constantly feeling like a fraud and that I don't know what I'm doing and that I'm just deluding myself...but right now I'm determined to tell that voice in my head to shut the fuck up for once. It's far past time for me to make these changes.
A and I have been talking about updating our resumes lately. Neither of us have updated ours in years (my last iteration was in 2014, hers MUCH earlier than that). She's been taking some online job search workshops and doing some research on the many and various companies that have corporate HQs here in the city. I did a very brief update to mine a few days ago but realize that I'm going to need to completely rewrite and revise it. I'll be looking into that over the next few weeks. Since I have a good solid bank background at this point, I've been thinking of looking further into that field. In the city, of course. I've also made peace with the fact that I might have to start commuting and working outside the home. As I'd said yesterday on my Bridgetown blog, it upended my initial plans and threw me for a loop, but I can still make this work. It'll be tough, but I can make it happen. I just need a goal, a clear mind, and a lot of determination.
Yeah, I know... I go through this phase a lot, don't I? Deciding to change, I get all excited about it, make big plans...and then it wears off and I'm back to my static, stoic self again a month or so later. Well... I'm hoping to change that as well. I'm bloody sick of that cycle. It makes me miserable and depressed and I hate it. It's me sliding back into the same damn comfort zone again and again and it gets me nowhere. It's not where I should be. It's not where I want to be. It's not where I need to be.
It's scary as hell and I'm constantly feeling like a fraud and that I don't know what I'm doing and that I'm just deluding myself...but right now I'm determined to tell that voice in my head to shut the fuck up for once. It's far past time for me to make these changes.
Well...! That got dark quickly. No worries, my friends...all is well here, and I'm stubborn as hell. Things are moving in the right direction now. :)
Hope everyone has a good week! :)
