Fri, Sat, Sun … then Something the Lord Made

This weekend has been great. I’ve really needed this time off to think of quite a few things. One being my new job; it’s been hard to put forth the motions of switching to a new job.. doing such things isn’t my forte. I REALLY hate leaving a place when you have put forth so much effort into making a name for yourself. Its kind of like a relationship with someone, you went through all this time of telling them you stories, and explaining to them how got to where you are today and then one day you break up and now you have to start all over with another person. I feel the same way about this company; they know how I do things and know my limitations and what I can and can’t do. It sucks I gotta leave one company and begin anew at another. My track record isn’t at the new company.. they don’t REALLY know me other than what I saw fit to address on my resume and what has been expressed by the friend of mine that will be taking over for. Then again, I’ve had to do this my whole career, mainly because I don’t have a degree or anything other than experience and a couple letters of recommendation from various colleagues stating their experience with me.
Starting new at a company is hard, but I’ll do what I do best and hopefully shine yet again. It makes me think about either going to school and seek out some formal training, or to take the certificate route so I can be in the same boat as everyone else, but have some experience to backup what the cert claims. I guess that’s the biggest thing that most employers face, they go to hire a person either fresh our of school or someone that just got a cert (MCSE or something like that) and yet they don’t have any experience to back it up. They later find out the person doesn’t know all that the cert claims they should know and are forced to find someone new. This whole thing has been keeping me up at night the last few days, but we’ll see what this new company has to offer. I plan to later ask them if I can either work to get some certs or maybe do some schooling so I’m not left behind. Am I looking at this right or not? Do I really need to prove my self worth this way? Uhhhggg.

Anyhow back to the matter at hand. Saturday we were at Kelly’s and I called my bro to come out and kick it with us. He and Brandy came out and I FINALLY got both Brandon and Billy to talk about my Bachelor party. I’m kinda worried about that, but was reassured by Brandon that I’ll like it. Sunday they came out again but to our house and we fixed the pool as well as got the damn Rover to clean the pool properly. Had a great discussion with Brandon about his career choices and what he has planned for the future. He like me only has experience to work from, and the company he works at doesn’t see what they have in their hands. He REALLY needs to tell them to kick rocks and find a new gig.

Monday and we have nothing planned. Yup sucks to be us, the Kids are gone to their Dads and were hanging out at home. I finally watched my taped copy of Something the Lord Made (2004) that has my man Mod Def in it. The movie was great, even brought a tear to my eye at the end. Good stuff.

Anyhow enough rambling off to spell check my damn spelling now and hit the Publish button in WordPress.

Have a good rest of your weekend.