Hi Friends!
I've spent the past three years working for three different minor league baseball teams, meeting great people and basically just having fun. But then I realized I needed to grow up, stop living paycheck to paycheck and being unsure if I "loved" what I did. I know my heart wasn't in it at my last job, even though I worked with awesome people, something was missing. I think a lot of that something was family and home. I made the decision to move back home to lovely Cleveland, Ohio (hold the comments, please). I desperately missed family birthdays, Sunday brunch with my dad at Flavors and Thursday night dinners at my Grandpa's. I also knew I wanted to be in a more fulfilling position work-wise, whatever that may be for me.
So I've been home for a little over a month and had some great interviews, some horrible interviews AND a job offer! I spent a lot of time researching companies and positions I would be interested in, to make sure I didn't just grab the first thing that came way and then hate it. I applied for a position with a non-profit that I thought would be super fulfilling and fun, and somehow, scored a phone interview. It was a disaster. I'm usually pretty good at interviewing, but this was just AWFUL. I was asked about 30 questions I had to answer and all my responses were recorded and the lady wasn't allowed to interject at all. She couldn't tell me to continue or ask me to elaborate on anything so there was lots of awkward silences and "um..'s". I had no idea what I was talking about and by the end of it, I'm pretty sure I was making no sense. Ironically, 3 hours later, I received an e-mail saying I wasn't suitable for the position. That's a personal record for being rejected.
Next, I had a phone interview with a local university in their ticket sales department. I don't know much about the university and I'm also pretty sure I have no interest in selling their basketball or lacrosse tickets. I chatted with the guy for a couple minutes and we immediately both realized I didn't want to make 120 phone calls per day/have HOURLY sales goals. He was super nice, though, and offered to help me out with any other positions that arose I might be interested in. I also had two interviews with two of Cleveland's professional sports teams, both for Account Executive positions. Both started with phone interviews that went extremely well and then led to in-person interviews. Being in of those offices were an awesome experience in itself. I lov(ed) working in sports and this reminded me of that.
Lastly, I had an interview with an outsourcing HR/advertising agency. Basically, clients hire them to create their ads to recruit employee's, among other things. Marketing, public relations, writing were all my first loves. My degree is in Public Relations and Professional Writing. This was particularly interesting to me. I had a phone interview which led to an in-person interview, which I thought went well. Then a week later I was called to interview with another Director in another department of the company.
Now was the waiting game.. still unsure of what exactly I want to do, just waiting to see who got back to me with good or bad news. I would get to excited when my phone rang and when "Mom Cell" popped up on the caller ID I would get so frustrated. Then on 6:30pm on a Friday evening, I was getting ready to go out and noticed a missed call and voicemail. I listened to it and it was the lady from the ad agency telling me to give her a call next week.
I convinced myself that a phone call on a late Friday night could NOT be good news. I figured she probably wanted to let me down right before she knew I would go out and probably drink away my sorrows. So I stressed all weekend and called her first thing Monday morning. I got her voicemail saying she was out of the office until Tuesday. Let me tell you, I was NOT a person you would want to be around on Monday. Tuesday I woke up bright and early, but she beat me to it, I answered the phone and was pleased to be offered a position as an Account Coordinator!
Which leads to me to now, 10pm on Sunday night, the day before my first day at my new gig. Oddly enough, I don't feel nervous. I'm just excited to start something new and be busy again. There are still a lot of unanswered questions with other places I've interviewed with, but right now I'm content with what I have. I feel lucky to have had all the opportunities I've been given and if something else pops up, I will deal with it as it comes.
I currently have no regrets about coming back to my hometown and I feel I definitely made the right decision. Hopefully I'll still have great stories to share even though it isn't MiLB, anymore. Wish me luck, and I'll update you after the first week!
-D
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