full timing.

for the past year and a half (almost 2), i have been working part time.  kind of.  it has been a job-share situation - i have a "partner" that i divide some responsibilities with and she works every day but wednesday, and i work every day but friday.  it has been a really sweet gig in a lot of ways...i took the part time job because i wanted to get into marketing, and because i was in school and it was phenomenal to have fridays to get homework and house stuff done. it made a huge difference in my stress level and was an awesome arrangement in every way except salary, of course, which obviously suffered a little bit.  fortunately, jb was supportive and we were willing to scrimp a little for a couple of years, thinking that i'd coast right into some awesome, lucrative full-time arrangement upon graduation.

well, graduation came and went, and i was pregnant.  so, i submitted a proposal to my boss (in early may), and i asked to move to full time, but i also felt like i wasn't in a great position to barter with the powers that be at my current job, nor did i feel like i was in a position to look for a new job elsewhere (because you know how everyone is just dying to hire women in the middle of a pregnancy).  so, of course, this has been a source of great anxiety for me.  and jb, i think, but mostly me.  i had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that i wasn't going to be full time, i wasn't going to get to do the job i wanted to do, and even if i did get the move it either a) wouldn't happen until after maternity leave and/or b) would be for not as much money as i was really hoping for/needing.

BUT.  this week, my boss let me know that i'm full time NOW (she said it was up to me and i said now is always better than later).  and i also am in a comfortable place, salary-wise.  oh, and to top it all off, the focus of my role is much more where i was hoping it would be (content development, etc etc).

i cannot possibly begin to express the relief and excitement this news has brought with it.  i feel like i can now be pumped about having this little niblet in a way i was a little bit scared to be before (so many variables and uncertainties....).  of course i will miss my freedom fridays - it's been awesome to be able to play and go to lunch and do projects on fridays every week since school has been out - but i feel like i am back in the adult world that i have tried so hard to be a part of.  and i feel like i can look forward to the job i'll be coming back to after nibs is born.  yay for career satisfaction - so rewarding.