Gift #5 - Career

The word career is a funny word to me. It implies that my life is focused on my job and I had goals to get where I am in the work place. So NOT true. Oh, there is so much I want to say about single women and careers and outside perspective but I won't. I'm very strongly biting my tongue. :)

Anyhoo (feeling a bit spunky today), gift #5 is my job. I actually have managed to land a pretty good gig. I work hard, I produce results and I'm essentially my own boss. I have a boss who lives in Arizona and we talk once/week for about 30 minutes. So yes, essentially my own boss. I am in charge of the direction of a laboratory software application. I collect marketing requirements through various research and write the functional requirements that are handed off to my engineering team for development (I might have blogged about that before. Can't remember and am too lazy to go back and look). I feel extremely blessed right now to have this job especially in our now defined recession. (Thanks for calling it an official recession this week. duh.)

I am very very grateful for my job. It gives me the freedom to visit family and friends when I want, it allows me to do a bit of traveling, it allows me to stretch my brain and it allows me to prove my skills. I've been in my current position for 2 years and just now feel that I'm getting the hang of it. I feel like I'm finally making a contribution to my company. Its a good feeling. My company took a risk on me and I'm glad that I finally feel the risk was worth it. It's a good job and a good company I intend to stay with.