Dream Job & Moon Cake
Today I passed on an opportunity to go after my dream job. I was so sad I sat frozen for minutes debating what I knew I had to do. A few weeks ago I read of a request in the ASCE (Civil Engineers) newsletter about a show looking for a female engineer co-host. The same opportunity passed my email box again this week this time through SWE (Women Engineers) saying they had a rep in California and so were doing interviews of California women engineers. The information I received explained it is a show that will be on the Discovery channel and the program will be about inventions or ideas to fight climate change. It’s a great opportunity to do something truly fun within my career and also genuinely good in so many ways, from climate change to inspiring young girls to be engineers.
It sucks that I couldn’t follow my gut on this one, because I really really wanted to go after this opportunity. But the other information they sent me said it would require a huge time commitment with 3 week shoots in November, January, February… five months, three weeks off each from work, ya I can just imagine Pete’s reaction. The funny thing is Pete and I just had a great talk about what we want to be when we grow up and I shared with him that what drives me is to do good, and here is an opportunity calling my name to do something good and I turn it down because of my work commitments. So bye bye dream job (I am hamming it up here, I am really not that sad about it anymore, but figure for the blog a little dramatic flair is appreciated) for whatever reason now wasn’t the time for me to go after one of the opportunities of a life time. I guess I already got a pretty great opportunity this year, hence moving here so I suppose that is fair.
On a truly positive note, we had a new employee start yesterday. She is fabulous, smart and fun – who could ask for more. She even took us up on going to lunch, better than our last employee. I think she is a keeper. She is from China. Today she brought in a moon cake to share, from the Chinese Moon Festival last week. Jon was down from our Reno office so the 4 of us split it for dessert – she knows how to buy me.