I have a new job.

After four weeks of working full-time for the temp agency in a nearby school office, I officially started a new job on Monday.

This new job is:
also in a school office
permanent
half-time
even closer to my home than my previous job

I even have a real employee ID badge! And benefits!

I was enjoying the temp job at the other school. I actually really miss some of the people I met there. I liked being busy and I liked feeling useful, but everything that wasn’t my job was slowly falling apart: the house, the kids’ piano practice and homework, the meal planning and grocery shopping, the laundry. We went to the cabin one weekend during my full-time gig and two weeks later I still felt like nothing at home had recovered from that trip.

Now I feel like I can breathe again.

The new job is good. It does suck to have to start all over again after I had settled in so well at the last place. But I am getting to know some adults and getting to know some kids and the other clerk in the office is awesome and helpful and I’m really going to enjoy working with her (and being entertained by her) for years.

I am so grateful I landed this unicorn of a job, and am looking forward to a better balance in my life for the foreseeable future!