I had a job I liked and they freakin’ shipped it to San Diego and assigned me a new terrible job I would never want, researching escalated issues that angry people have, which wouldn’t have been so bad if I didn’t have to call them and talk to them and try and get the problem sorted out.

Figuring out what went wrong was interesting and challenging to me. Discussing it with them, was not. In fact, I knew deep in my soul from the very first moment they told us of our new positions (they changed my whole department into an entirely different department that most of us were neither qualified for or interested in doing) that I was never actually going to be doing that job.

That meant I had to find another one.

Frankly, I didn’t expect that to be easy. And I didn’t expect it to be with the same company. In fact I figured I’d quit and regret it because I was going to end up unemployed for a long time. But that was still better than doing this job and letting these people, who’ve been jerked around a lot, yell at me for things I not only didn’t do, but mostly likely couldn’t fix.

The people in my department who’d worked customer service or collections jobs before tell me I need to toughen up.

I decided I’d rather be out of work than toughen up.

I mean I’ve been out of work and there’s always ways to bring in some money, and there’s always school to go back to, and I guess I’ve been lucky because there have always been jobs for me to fall into just be being in the right place at the right time. Staying scared me more than leaving.

But I got lucky and got a new position with the same company in a better building. I don’t lose any benefits I’ve earned by being with the company awhile, my money stays the same, my commute gets shorter, my hours change but I think I might like the new ones better, and my work gets much less stressful as I’m back to reviewing documents like I was put on this earth to do.

Accepting the job offer was like a weight off my shoulders.
Walking out the door today never to return was just pure bliss.

I’m actually looking forward to starting my new job on Wednesday!