My First Time: Having a career I'm excited about

It only took 7 years, 1 month, and 22 days to be in a career I'm actually excited about and a job that I feel as though I can truly uses my skill sets.

Last week I was offered a promotion as the new (and only) Corporate Trainer for Merchandising and Planning at our company. My primary responsibility will be creating a training program for the college recruits we're hiring. I'll take these new grads through a 26 week program, cross-training them on all areas of business and systems, and helping them develop a career path. This combines my love of retail, my knowledge of the business, and my desire to develop people.

I have my work cut out for me though! We are building this from scratch! Not to mention I'll need to learn a new set of skills such as refining my public speaking abilities, facilitating, writing material, teaching, training, and doing all of it with confidence. :-)

But I am so thrilled for this opportunity and feel so blessed that this feel in my lap! And I am excited to finally get out of the world of finance and analysis, where I always felt a tad "stuck".

I officially start in 2 weeks, so I better get back to finishing my 'to do' list so I can hand my work off to the next person!

Saturday night some friends and I went out to celebrate at a delicious restaurant. We also had another friend who got a job this last week, so it was a double work celebration!