It’s more Friday good news — this time with updates! Here are updates from individuals who shared good news right here prior to now.
1. The one that discovered a new job after a arduous job search (#1 on the hyperlink)
I needed to jot down in as a result of the job I believed was my second alternative and never unhealthy moving into a pandemic … turned out to be the most effective factor that ever occurred to me.
The job that was my “first choice” turned out to be someplace completely dysfunctional and more and more publicly not aligned with my values.
The job I went to gave me confidence in issues I’d executed earlier than, in new issues, in working independently and with others, and in disclosing and never being held again due to my neurodivergence, and it was at a fascinating place the place I received to be taught a lot about historical past and politics by the tasks I labored on.
I used to be headhunted by that a yr in the past to handle the marketing campaign for a main cultural group’s landmark undertaking — which hasn’t at all times been plain crusing, however I’m conserving a stage head and actually enthusiastic about what this might set me up for subsequent with all the good suggestions and expertise I’ve had. Which won’t be that intently associated to what I’ve been doing to date! But this job and the final one have cleared my thoughts a lot that I can see I’ve strengths in addition to weaknesses — and there may simply be careers on the market that play to these, even when they’re careers with phrases that 16-year-old me didn’t perceive and thought have been boring.
Oh — and I met my companion at that final job. We’re now shopping for a flat collectively 🙂
2. The success story from a scholar (first replace right here)
I’m the scholar who despatched in good news about moving into grad faculty again at the beginning of Covid.
I earlier despatched in an replace on the one-year mark about how whereas there have been struggles, it was additionally the proper transfer and I used to be glad with the choice. I can say that since that replace, I took on a supervisory position to 2 college students, I’m on monitor to publishing a number of analysis articles, and I used to be approached about a potential job in my area final summer season (a true whirlwind)! I used to be provided the job and earlier than I even submitted my thesis I started work in a position that was completely tailor-made to my background and in a supervisor place — not unhealthy for a first job to begin my profession!
I’ve since submitted and handed my thesis, so this is to be my final semester as a scholar. I really feel utterly prepared and at peace with the choice to depart academia. My love for studying on the tutorial stage has been satiated (for now), and I’m very a lot wanting ahead to having the ability to have complete nights and weekends utterly to myself for the primary time in my life. I’m excited to have a correct revenue for the primary time, and I’m already planning my first guilt-free trip the place I gained’t must carry any faculty work/test emails religiously — it will likely be unbelievable!
This isn’t to say that there haven’t been points. Life seems fairly rosy when wanting on the large image, and I’ve labored my butt off for the alternatives whereas having the help of household and associates that make it appear this approach. But working a full-time job whereas writing a thesis on the similar time has made for an extremely anxious final third of the yr, and being hit with the realities of leaving a largely-liberal group of friends to the wide-ranging opinions and views of the company world (wow, hi there blatant sexism…) has been fascinating to say the least. Overall although, I’m grateful for a way the final 2+ years have been and for the individuals I’ve met alongside the way in which. While this job isn’t endlessly, no matter its challenges it’s a unbelievable stepping stone that I’m grateful to have.
So thanks AAM, for being a fantastic supply of each leisure and studying, which I’m excited to make use of myself! I hope to sooner or later be a supervisor that’s the supply for another person’s Friday Good News put up. 🙂
3. The one that discovered a new job after the earlier one soured (#2 on the hyperlink)
Back in late 2021, I wrote to you with Friday Good News that I had landed a new job after my earlier job had soured. Since then, issues received considerably worse, after which a lot better than I might have imagined.
The job I wrote to you about was a catastrophe, sadly. My position was a new one, and I realized in my first few weeks that the position had been created to get round one significantly troublesome individual. My boss was reluctant to place his foot down and make this troublesome individual cooperate with me, which left me just about unable to do any work, as she refused to offer me important passwords. This was a one-year contract place, and, across the nine-month mark, my husband and I made a decision it was time to begin making use of for different jobs. This was a fortuitous choice, as one month later I used to be instructed that, regardless of earlier assurances on the contrary, my contract was not being renewed. I massively ramped up my utility course of, however was nonetheless unhappily confronted with unemployment when my contract ended simply earlier than Thanksgiving.
I stored on the utility course of diligently by a number of months of unemployment in the course of the vacation season, and, regardless of the actual wrestle, it paid off immensely. At the top of January, I used to be provided what appeared to be a dream place: it mixed the experience of the sphere I’ve been in for the previous six years with my tutorial passions, gave me the chance to maneuver from an space the place my husband and I had little or no help system to the realm the place nearly all of my household and shut associates stay, and gave me a important increase. I’m now making more than twice what I used to be making two jobs in the past. And a few days earlier than the job provide got here in, we realized that we have been anticipating!
Three months into my new job, I can safely say that this actually is Good News. The work I’m doing is difficult and satisfying, my colleagues are supportive and collaborative, the establishment’s insurance policies will give me a nice maternity depart, and every little thing simply feels proper in a approach it hasn’t in years. Thank you, Alison, for working a web site the place I couldn’t solely get recommendation that helped me in my journey to get right here but in addition discover reassurances that I’d, even when the going received powerful.
