My best friend from church, Martyn, works for a company in Duluth called Napa Home & Garden. They wholesale home and garden items to stores from Neiman Marcus to K-mart. The company is very successful and growing by leaps and bounds. He called me last Thursday to tell me there was a job opening he thought I might be interested in. The position is supporting the CFO and Customer Service Manager. It will be some project management, some accounts receivables and payable, working with high profile clients, training and whatever else comes along the way.

The job sounded like something right up my alley. I am organized, can multi-task, hate to be bored and want to enjoy my job. I was with Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville for 12 years. I loved all of the jobs I had during my time there. If I hadn’t decided to move to Atlanta, I believe I would have ended up retiring from there.

I called the CFO at Napa to set up an interview. We scheduled to meet at 10am on Friday. The interview went great. I enjoying meeting and talking with both the CFO and the CS Mgr. The company was somewhere I could see myself working. The position had been open for about a month and over a dozen people had been interviewed. At the close of my interview, the CFO said she was really impressed with me and my resume. She thought that I was exactly the person they were looking for. She said she would love to offer me the job on the spot but had 2 more interviews, one on Friday and one on Monday. She promised that she would call me Monday afternoon with a decision.

Monday finally got here and the day dragged by. I called a little before 5pm but she was gone for the day. I followed up with her on Tuesday morning. She apoligized for not getting with me on Monday. She said the person she interviewed on Monday asked her to wait to make a decision until Friday. She didn’t share the reason with me for the requested delay but did say that the more she had thought about it, she decided she didn’t see any reason to put the decision off. She asked me to give her a little more time to get with the “powers at be”. If I didn’t hear from her by 2pm, she asked that I call her back. I called and she still didn’t have any response. Again, she asked me to give her more time and to call her when I left work for the day.

Finally she left me a message at 5pm asking me to call her. She gave me her cell phone number so that she wouldn’t miss my call. I called and she offered me the job saying that they wanted me to start as soon as possible. We discussed a few other incidentals that we had not covered in the interview. I left it that I would call her tomorrow after I gave my resignation and let her know when I would be available to start.

I was (and still am) so excited!! The job that I’ve had for a few months is a good job. It is with a physician billing company. It is in an industry that I know and work that I have done for many years. The problem is that I am bored, bored, bored. I am doing work that I was doing 20 years ago when I first started in healthcare/patient billing. I’ve asked for additional responsibilities and work only to receive “busy work”. While this may be enough for some people, it’s not enough for me. The commute is usually 30-45 minutes both ways–whether from my place or Cheryl’s. I don’t mind the driving at all–it’s the sitting in traffic that makes me bonkers. That is all about to change. Napa is located about 2 miles from C’s house.

Life is so good! A new relationship with C that is everything I have ever wanted. A new job that will offer growth potential, the chance to learn many new things and the opportunity to utilize my skills. A new group of friends/family though church and blogging. Maybe moving to Atlanta wasn’t such a bad idea after all…….