Trying To Keep Up
It has been just a little too long since I last created a post. I really need to do better at the blogging thing especially since I've got three whole blogs to upkeep! I'm such a crazy girl sometimes. Speaking of crazy things...my life has turned into one crazy mess of things to do.
My recruiting job has been like a house of cards constantly falling out from underneath me. I don't like that feeling one little bit. But I have been very fortunate in that every time one office disappears they find me another one to replace it rather quickly. All the same, I have lost about 5 offices in the 1 year that I have been working here and that is not something that would make anyone feel very good about their work. So I am struggling right along, but the pay is good and the people I work with are amazing. They flew all the Admins/recruiters to Dallas for a conference where we learned so many wonderful things and I came back with a very positive attitude, even after learning that I had lost my office in Wilmington. The loss of the office I counted on to be around the longest hit me pretty hard. Again I was very lucky to have been at this meeting when this occurred, there was another girl from outside the recruiting firm that I work for who needed someone to make calls for one of the managers she works with and so I picked that up for an office in Pennsylvania. I don't love it but it will help me survive until I can get another office with RRS.
Why don't I love it, you might ask? Because shouldn't I love an office where the only thing I am responsible for is making the calls to schedule the interviews? Well, I don't like having control removed from my greedy little paws. I have gotten so used to being the one in full control of each office. I post the jobs, I read and process every resume and I make the calls to schedule people in for an interview and so so much more. So to be told that someone else will be doing everything and I am only to call people, it makes me feel very inadequate...or ill prepared might be a better term. Either way, it's been very nice to feel so important that someone has always been there to help give me a leg up whenever that house of cards starts to tumble again.
The photography end of my work has become a lot more pleasant. I've learned to use this time to meet new people and network with the bigwigs around town. This has really helped me lighten up a lot more at these events. I've also learned to talk to the other, much more experienced photographers and learn from them what I am doing wrong here and there and how to fix it. This has probably become my greatest asset. Most of the photographers are very willing to share their knowledge and if I had any to give in return I would do so but alas I feel so ill equipped to teach anyone anything right now. Hopefully that will change soon.
Speaking of photography, If you're keeping up with me on Facebook, you'll know that I have applied to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design's eLearning program. It's an opportunity for me to complete my college education but also to grow as a photographer (since I would be majoring in photography). I am truly looking forward to the experience, and I hope I find out soon if I have been accepted. It's a very prestigious private art college and therefore incredibly expensive. Fingers crossed and prayers said that if I do get in, I'm able to afford it without taking out more loans! I'm hoping to get some scholarship opportunities and find some grants to apply for. This is definitely an opportunity I have been waiting for, for a very long time.
And I recently actually started making friends in Wilmington without Nathan. It's kind of nice to know I still have the ability to do that. I have befriended this gal that's about my age and works for the same magazine I do and we have gone to Brunch together a few times and even went consignment shopping together once. Kristi works for MaryKay in her spare time and invited me to a makeover, if she had enough girls she could win a prize. So I went with no expectations, since I have been to a number of these before, and when they started their pitch about signing up to sell, I was asking questions because the more questions you ask the more raffle tickets you would get to win a purse and I really wanted the cute purse. So the more questions I asked the more the answers sounded good. I guess I was really hearing a lot of stability and make it what you want so I decided since everyone around me keeps telling me I should be an entrepreneur that I would just plug my nose, close my eyes and jump on into the lukewarm waters of MaryKay haha. Yeah, you heard that right, Ariel is going to be trying to sell MaryKay, don't worry, I wont be pushy ;-) I just figure if it works out it works and if not I can say I gave it a twirl.
In other news, and I swear this is the last update for this evening. I am volunteering with the New Hanover Regional Medical Center's Foundation. This is the group who plans their Gala every year and this year they're planning a Brazilian Carnival themed event. This is usually the social event of the season here in Wilmington and I'm so excited to have been invited to participate. It also makes me nervous, because these people are all bigwigs around town and I'm kind of a little nobody right now....but pretty soon if I keep this up I might just be a big fat somebody haha! Looking forward to the day! I'm attending my first planning meeting tonight so I will be sure to keep you posted on how it turns out!
My recruiting job has been like a house of cards constantly falling out from underneath me. I don't like that feeling one little bit. But I have been very fortunate in that every time one office disappears they find me another one to replace it rather quickly. All the same, I have lost about 5 offices in the 1 year that I have been working here and that is not something that would make anyone feel very good about their work. So I am struggling right along, but the pay is good and the people I work with are amazing. They flew all the Admins/recruiters to Dallas for a conference where we learned so many wonderful things and I came back with a very positive attitude, even after learning that I had lost my office in Wilmington. The loss of the office I counted on to be around the longest hit me pretty hard. Again I was very lucky to have been at this meeting when this occurred, there was another girl from outside the recruiting firm that I work for who needed someone to make calls for one of the managers she works with and so I picked that up for an office in Pennsylvania. I don't love it but it will help me survive until I can get another office with RRS.
Why don't I love it, you might ask? Because shouldn't I love an office where the only thing I am responsible for is making the calls to schedule the interviews? Well, I don't like having control removed from my greedy little paws. I have gotten so used to being the one in full control of each office. I post the jobs, I read and process every resume and I make the calls to schedule people in for an interview and so so much more. So to be told that someone else will be doing everything and I am only to call people, it makes me feel very inadequate...or ill prepared might be a better term. Either way, it's been very nice to feel so important that someone has always been there to help give me a leg up whenever that house of cards starts to tumble again.
The photography end of my work has become a lot more pleasant. I've learned to use this time to meet new people and network with the bigwigs around town. This has really helped me lighten up a lot more at these events. I've also learned to talk to the other, much more experienced photographers and learn from them what I am doing wrong here and there and how to fix it. This has probably become my greatest asset. Most of the photographers are very willing to share their knowledge and if I had any to give in return I would do so but alas I feel so ill equipped to teach anyone anything right now. Hopefully that will change soon.
Speaking of photography, If you're keeping up with me on Facebook, you'll know that I have applied to attend the Savannah College of Art and Design's eLearning program. It's an opportunity for me to complete my college education but also to grow as a photographer (since I would be majoring in photography). I am truly looking forward to the experience, and I hope I find out soon if I have been accepted. It's a very prestigious private art college and therefore incredibly expensive. Fingers crossed and prayers said that if I do get in, I'm able to afford it without taking out more loans! I'm hoping to get some scholarship opportunities and find some grants to apply for. This is definitely an opportunity I have been waiting for, for a very long time.
And I recently actually started making friends in Wilmington without Nathan. It's kind of nice to know I still have the ability to do that. I have befriended this gal that's about my age and works for the same magazine I do and we have gone to Brunch together a few times and even went consignment shopping together once. Kristi works for MaryKay in her spare time and invited me to a makeover, if she had enough girls she could win a prize. So I went with no expectations, since I have been to a number of these before, and when they started their pitch about signing up to sell, I was asking questions because the more questions you ask the more raffle tickets you would get to win a purse and I really wanted the cute purse. So the more questions I asked the more the answers sounded good. I guess I was really hearing a lot of stability and make it what you want so I decided since everyone around me keeps telling me I should be an entrepreneur that I would just plug my nose, close my eyes and jump on into the lukewarm waters of MaryKay haha. Yeah, you heard that right, Ariel is going to be trying to sell MaryKay, don't worry, I wont be pushy ;-) I just figure if it works out it works and if not I can say I gave it a twirl.
In other news, and I swear this is the last update for this evening. I am volunteering with the New Hanover Regional Medical Center's Foundation. This is the group who plans their Gala every year and this year they're planning a Brazilian Carnival themed event. This is usually the social event of the season here in Wilmington and I'm so excited to have been invited to participate. It also makes me nervous, because these people are all bigwigs around town and I'm kind of a little nobody right now....but pretty soon if I keep this up I might just be a big fat somebody haha! Looking forward to the day! I'm attending my first planning meeting tonight so I will be sure to keep you posted on how it turns out!
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