FT Job Offer Received and Accepted

It's been almost six months since I last updated this blog.  Just wanted to bring some sort of closure to the "job search" aspect of this blog and provide an update to my readers.  Since September 2012, I'd been working as a temporary employee at a sports entertainment company.  The contract was for a fixed time until roughly early February 2013.  Around mid-December with the end of my contract looming, I started formally looking around for full-time positions both inside and outside the company.  I went through the interview process for a few openings and was recently offered a permanent full-time manager position at the company I temped at, but with a different group.  I accepted the offer and will begin working in early March.  Again, I chose not to blog about the specific aspects of the job search as I was going through it but hope to discuss it in a little more detail later when it's more appropriate.

I'm very excited to have a full-time permanent job; I'll be getting paid a reasonable entry-level MBA salary.  I'm also pretty excited about this specific position because it is at the intersection of corporate finance, digital media, and sports entertainment.  It ties into my background and education (finance), but also addresses my affinity (sports) as well as learning about a new area (digital media).  It is really a great position, so I feel very thankful to start it.

It's been a little over a year since I quit my banking job and last had a non-contract job.  It's amazing to see and personally experience how things worked out.  Over the next few days/weeks, I want to try to force myself to write a few more blog entries on some lessons learned or other reflections from over the past year.  I think this will help me process everything I went through.  Mainly, I hope it'll be a benefit to me so that I can look back and remember, but also, I hope it can serve to benefit others who may stumble onto this site and read it from start to finish.  I feel like this blog would be incomplete unless I put some kind of closure to it, since it was always meant to be temporary and chronicle just a set time period of my life.

A few specific topics I'd like to reflect on in the coming days are: providential timing, importance of reputation, the power of hope, taking risks, dignity of work, work/life balance, etc.  Looking forward to going through the debrief together.