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>What's cracking?
- Graduated college in 2009. Was only able to get a part time gig working at a local courthouse doing data entry while working retail nights/weekends - First FT gig was in 2011 making government ID cards for the Air Force - Was in the right place, right time (sorta) and got a job that required me to move to DC as an executive asst (this was a big deal to me at the time) - Right place, right time became the wrong place/time because I was on gov't contracts that were outbid and had to accept less pay/benefits twice in two years to do the same job - Got "promoted" (with no raise), went as far as I could go in that contract - Started interviewing ... interviewed with this huge consulting firm I really wanted to join, but bombed it unfortunately. Eventually got another admin job with upward mobility with a private company - Got fired from there a year and a half later (finding out you're not as detail oriented as you thought is a harsh reality when your job depends on it, esp while you're going through separation/divorce) - After months of unemployment, got another job as a student advisor for a distance learning company with limited upward mobility, but the pay was at least the same as the previous job - After 3 years there, they made it clear they weren't gonna promote me. I wasn't having any success in DC's job markets, and debt wasn't going anywhere despite working a part time job - Moved back to my hometown @ age 32 and lived with my parents to take another gov't contracting gig (with upward mobility if I were able to get in on the gov't side). Got promoted with raise, and was hoping to move to the gov't side, but they kept giving positions to vets, so I started studying to become a project manager - After essentially a year full of no's, the day after I found out that the contract was ending and there was no new contract in place, I interviewed with that same consulting firm I had bombed 10 yrs ago and KILLED that shit. Got the verbal offer later that day. The contract I was on ends literally today
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