The blog I've been dying to write....

One word: FINALLY!!!

I have dreamt for many moons about writing a blog entry, informing the cyber world of my good fortune when finally obtaining employment. That day has come. Yes, it's true...after three months, thousands of hours of internet searching, and seven interviews....I FINALLY have been offered a job willing to give me a work permit.

I had four interviews in a week and told my roomate after returning home from the last one yesterday, that I was SO done with that whole process. The interviews on both Monday and Tuesday of this week offered me the job, however shortly after that they "regreted to inform me" that despite their profound desire to hire me as the most appointable and qualified candidate, their human resources department completely refused to offer me a work permit (for a number of reasons due to recent changes in their immigration system).

You can imagine the roller coaster of emotions had become unbearable by last night. To go from complete elation at hearing employers tell me that I am the best candidate they interviewed and how badly they wanted me; followed immediately by "however... can't give work permit, blah blah blah", was agonizing. I don't know whats worse, being rejected because I bombed an interview, or having an employer tell me how much they wanted to hire me but couldn't because their government has bizarre immigration policies.

So I took the train...full steam ahead... to "Bleaktown" as Shari has coined it. Last night I wallowed in a deep pit of despair, feeling all hope had been lost and their was not even a sliver of light at the end of a very dilapidated tunnel. I desperately wanted to eat my weight in pizza or macaroni and cheese but only became more depressed when slapped in the face with my economic hardship, realizing I couldn't even afford my usual means of self-medication.

Shari kept telling me not to freak out, because the school job (the Holy Grail) was the last job I hadn't heard from, and she tried her hardest to instill even the smallest hope to stop, or at least slow the ride to Bleaktown. But it was inevitable, after being defeated and emotionally beaten so many times in the last two weeks, I was all done and just sank back into my cave of a bedroom, sulking in the dark.

Sounds terrible right? It was! That is until approximately 8:38am this morning when I received a phone call...It went something like this:

The wonderful woman from the school job called and said "I am pleased to offer you the job that you interviewed for".

But my excitement was stifled.... I stammered out. "But are you able to offer me a work permit"

"Yes" she said.

I just didn't believe it..."Ok, but have you contacted Human Resources and cleared it through them? Have they said they could offer it to me?"

A bit taken aback by the apprehension (which was more like unbridled fear) in my voice, she replied "Yes, I have spoken with human resources and they are willing to offer you a work permit, contingent on background checks and reference checks of course".

*Falls to the ground*

"Oh my God, thank you so much, thank you, thank you!!!"

*Cue uncontrollable sobbing on the phone with my future employer*

"Uh, are you alright dear?" says the angel sent from heaven.

"Oh yes, I'm OK...I just...I just NEVER THOUGHT IT WOULD HAPPEN!!!" *sobs and sobs*

The woman broke out in to laughter and explained that she would be sending all of the necessary paperwork through and assured me that the job was mine as long as all of the checks cleared.

So there you have it...after what might as well have been sweat, blood, and a whole lot of tears...I have finally done what I set out to do. I have an amazing, incredible job, that I have every belief I will love. It involves doing assessment and interventions with children and their families in five different schools within my borough. So I will most likely be working in a different atmosphere every day. Not to mention the pay is out of this world, and I get school breaks!!! There is a lot of room for advancement taking the initiative on spearheading new projects and groups. I am super super super excited about it.

I can't help but still have a sliver of fear that something will go wrong with the permit process, but for the most part I am confident that this will all work out and I will hopefully be working right after Christmas break. So thank you to everyone who believed in me and sent me good thoughts!!! Its all good baby!

I GOT A JOB....AAAHHHHHHH!!!!! WOOT WOOT!!!!!