WORK!

Aaacck! yes, i am working again!!!!!!!!!!!
Because i was required by EDD to search for work, i did- although only half-heartedly since i chose to focus on school. but an opportunity presented itself that i couldn't pass up. not to mention that spending 4 mos. home with the kids kinda did a number on my sanity!

a friend of mine started a job at World Wide Sires in the spring and told me about an opening that wouldn't be advertised in the paper. the more she told me about the job, the more i got excited.
a little history: well, i'll let you read for yourself if your interested. here's our website! http://www.wwsires.com/

but the bottom line: i am an order/shipper processor that exports bull semen to 70+countries! *no i don't see it, touch it or know yet how they 'harvest' it! and i absolutely love it! i think what i'm diggin' the most is the work atmosphere and i just can't stop being giddy over it. my office is 30 people strong and seem like some of the most amazing people. it's a family. my ceo wants to know about my hobbies! and we prayed before our staff/lunch meeting! all normal things, i realize. but i think i'm still experiencing culture shock, coming from a 3000+ corporation. i get to wear jeans to work. i have internet access. i can make/take personal calls at my desk. the autonomy is rewarding. but underneath that, i'm staying very busy. our business is unique in different ways. the first being that we have, what i like to view as, a world hunger kind of effort going on. we are sharing our good ol' american bull 'pedigree' with developing countries and the like, giving them the opportunity to produce their own milk and beef. we also cater our services to each country, depending on their federal requirements, etc. so you can imagine the diversity with each customer. my first week there, we had a group of Algerians come for a visit (often these international groups visit the farms from which their product is produced)! There's a girl in my office who came to the US from China, by way of Australia and speaks and writes Chinese! We've got a guy who's fluent in Russian, and another in Arabic. it truly is a blessing to have found a job that, 3 weeks into, has been so enriching and rewarding!

this obviously presented an interference with school and that is where i'm at now. i see myself at this job for a while (they pride themselves in long-term employees!). so i'm hanging on to make it through the semester with school. my 2 social work teachers are an encouragment and i don't like to let people down if i don't have to. so i'm trying to pull through and catch up on the remaining assignments of the semester. but i won't give up next semester either. maybe i'll attempt that personal finance class again! i don't know yet, but i will take something. i'm just extremely happy to have found a happy medium for now.