The future has a way of arriving unannounced
The quote in the title is by George Will, and it describes perfectly my life over the last several weeks. (On a side note, George Will also made one of my other favorite quotes, stating on The Colbert Report that he was an agnostic because he is "not decisive enough to be an atheist.")
I actually held off writing a blog entry on this for a few days because I wanted it to sink in to myself before I told everyone else about it (though if you Facebook, you probably already knew)...
I have had a lot of things going on lately, but one of the largest decisions I've had to make in recent memory involved whether or not to change jobs. In my current position at Georgetown, I had been responsible since May for reviewing the contracts that came through our group, and recently had been receiving contracts from other managers, as they found out I'm an attorney and was reviewing some of these contracts.
With that in mind, and because it is something I genuinely enjoy doing, I decided to look into doing this on a permanent basis. Both Georgetown and George Washington University had a similar position open as the Contracts Manager for all IT contracts. I knew that I wanted to stay in higher education, and I also knew that it was time for me to make a change to something a little different and more challenging. After doing some research, I definitely thought that this was an avenue I wanted to investigate. While both jobs had some intimidating aspects to them, I feel that it would make things that much more exciting.
After applying for both positions and going through the normal interview process (albeit a shortened one at Georgetown), I received offers from both places. After thinking it over and negotiating a bit, I decided to remain at Georgetown. They have been very good to me there, and I enjoy working with the people there. While GWU was very fair with me, made me feel very wanted, and made a good offer for my service, I just feel that Georgetown is a better fit for me right now.
The new position begins October 29th. I was asked to wait a little while because the office I currently work in is undergoing some big changes, and they want to make sure everything goes well. I had no problem with that, as I owe a lot to my supervisor there, as she has done a lot for me. While I am sad to go, I'll only be around the corner from where I was, so in that respect I won't be leaving to much behind. I'm genuinely happy with this decision, and looking forward to getting started in the new position.
Anyway, some more exciting/fun things happened this weekend. I'll write about those later this week!