I've been promising to update everyone on my work situation, but I manage to keep not doing it, so here you go.
A year ago the bank I worked at for 5 years was acquired by TD Bank. Not too much changed, the acquisition was slow moving and then in the new year it started to pick up the pace. A few months later I was informed that my position was no longer needed in this location and I had a few options. I could go to the retail side (no way), consider moving north to Jersey, NY, PA, etc (no way) or I could take a severance package (yep). I had somewhere around a 75 day working notice and my last day would be June 17th.
First reactions were anger and eagerness to find a new job. Considering the pregnancy this didn't make a whole lot of sense, but I was determined. Within a few weeks I had multiple interviews, calls and one offer - obviously none of them were quite right or I wouldn't be writing this. After a lot of persuading from Grant I stopped the active job search and came to terms with the fact that this was going to be my one chance to stay home with the girls. I would have my severance, insurance and unemployment for a few months and it would be a nice excuse to try out this whole stay at home mom business that many of my friends were now doing.
Of course as soon as I get my thoughts into place about staying home, I received a call from a medical supply distributor for an interview. OK, sure - why not? Well 4 interviews later and I was told that I was top 3 of the candidates and that they would be choosing 2 to go to New York for a final interview with corporate. How kind of the male interviewing me not to notice that under my swing jacket was a 8 month prego belly and that I would need to go out on maternity leave at the same time he was looking to retire. Oddly enough I wasn't chosen for the New York interview, ha.
So I start my count down, I'm not at one week of work left and than a month and a half of Adelaide and Mommy time until Penelope got here. Phone rings again - this time it isn't for an interview, it is a call asking me to stay on for another month at TD Bank. So now, I am really confused on what to do. At this point I have paid zero attention to another that would occur after June 17th, my to do list is a mile long because I was waiting until I got out of work. Benefits are that I would get two more pay checks and my insurance would last another month. The bad was that I had already told daycare that A would be leaving, I was frustrated with the work I was going to be doing and quite frankly I was ready for my Adelaide time.
What did I do - I have had a hard time posting on the blog because I've been working! Yes, I decided it made sense to stay on a little longer and since then I've been spending my last paychecks on prizes for myself - new Pb rugs for the house, buying all of the last minute baby gear, new clothes for A and of course tucking some aside for the big trip to Greece next year (more on that later).
That is the work update and I can officially say I have 3 weeks of work left and then who knows how long I will have off. At the earliest I would like to go back to work late this year or early next year. I also have some friends who are consultants and are interested in me doing some work on the side for them, but we will see how the schedule looks once I have two little girls in the house.
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