Happy 1st Work-Anniversary !

Today marks my 1 year anniversary with my current company, unbelievable how fast a year goes.

Prior to starting at my current company, I had come off months of career uncertainty, a lay off, a resignation and personal failures and burnt bridges in my job search.

This company, which is well known international company with over 50,000 employees, a juggernaut that has been around for 75 years. Never imagining I would get in as I had tried over 7 years to get my foot in the door.

I give the glory to GOD for opening this door, but by September 2023, I was broken from the past year. My confidence was shot, my mind was in torment, unable to sleep and in all honestly I was thinking of a way out of life.

From meeting my manager Michael, whom I had met a over a year prior in another interview. Michael who is warm, kind, good attitude and overall a great man. I guess I liked Mike because in my eyes he reminds alot of a better verison of myself yet younger who is about 37 years old and has been the company for about 15 years. I can not forget the other person, a director named Emy, who I too found incredibly kind, professional just incredible, but she left the company in November 23′.

Since September I have attempted to grow, learn a complex system, manage projects in a new way and learn to work with new incredible people.

From my first day, everyone has been welcome, encouraging, showing me kindness, respect and complete professionalism. Although I have worked for a few companies , no one has ever treated me like this. I will admit that may be hard to believe, I am most employers have been professional, but not every company showed they cared, not every company valued me.

This year has been filled with incredible challenges, but challenges that have progressively gotten more difficult, giving me comfort to make mistakes and learn along the away.

I continue to learn each day and have even begun seeing clients of my own now, but I am never alone as the support I need is always there.

What has also been great is the kind of people I work with from those who just started with the company to many who have been there 10,15,25,40 years amazing.

I look forward to the future of being there, but like any job there are cons, like the pay in a way is lower than what I was making before I was laid off and way less than the position I resigned from which was SCE, or shall I say forced to leave.

Most amazingly recently due exceeding departmental goals our team was gifted with a day at Disneyland, which was amazing.

Here’s to another great year!