Perspective from November 24th

Tonight was a night that I wasn’t expecting. It was nice and needed thinking about it now. I went back to my old job to pick up the new Kanye West CD. (Since I still technically work for the big blue box I still get my discount, yay!) All of the supervisors I worked with were there as well as 3 managers. After I walked out the door I had a wonderful conversation with my old supervisor. Well wonderful for me, not for him. This is the supervisor that’s job I should have gotten. It was later revealed to me that they regretted and should have chosen me for the job, not him.

We talked for over an hour outside the store on how bad it is. How much he hates his job and the rest of the store hates working there. How he’s looking for any way out. Even if it was a cut in pay and position. It was a sign for me. I needed to hear all of these things that they are going through. How much the job has sucked. I thought, this could have been me! I could be hating my job and getting yelled at every day, worried if I would be fired every day I walked into that building.

While we were talking I had this feeling of being thankful for where I am now. I’ve moved on from the black hole that is sucking the life out of everyone. It made me love my job even more than I do. I may get stressed out because things are not being done the right way, or my boss is stressing out for no reason, stressing me out, BUT I’d take that any day over what it was like at my old job. I AM HAPPY going into work each day. I no longer am in fear of losing my job like everyone is at my old store. I am appreciated for doing things and respected by most of the people I work with. (There is one that doesn’t respect me but I’m over it, and that person.)

Tonight was needed, to appreciate and have an attitude of gratitude for my job now. It’s also nice to laugh in their faces that I ended up in a better place than they did, those who doubted me. So whenever I’m having a bad day, people at work are bothering me, I need to remember this night. This conversation. Because I could have it one billion times worse than what it is. The universe works in crazy ways and tonight it showed me that everything happens for a reason. Always remember that.