"THIS IS THE DAY"
Hello and Happy Sabbath. It has been awhile since I have posted anything. I have been planning to add a new blog, but it seems things come up and I don't get around to it. A lot has happened in my life since my last post.
I have worked for the Inola Public Library for 13 years. I started in 1995 as a volunteer and kept moving up. In 2000 I was hired as the Library Assistant. In 2005 I was hired as the Director. This last position I really didn't want. Too much headache and stress. I never wanted to be the boss. The only reason I took it, I was running the library until they hired another Director. The last Director, Linda Shaw, had retired and given a two weeks notice, but they had not filled her position. The board hired me as interim. I had gotten a big raise, just to stay. The reason I took the Director's job, if I stayed as the assistant and they hired a new Director, my pay would drop back to what I was making before I took the job of interim. There was no way I wanted to loose that much money. So I interviewed for and got the Director's job.
In the beginning things weren't so bad, I was already doing it as interim. They hired me an assistant which I got along with quiet well. She was there for a year, but had to retire due to health problems. I was on my own again. We interviewed for a new assistant. I had two ladies that I know try for the job. Either one would have been fine by me. I now wish I had picked the first one we interviewed. I think things would have worked out different. We hired the second one. I thought she would be great. She even left another job to come and work for me at the library. She only wanted a part-time job, which is what the assistant's job was. She has worked for me for a year and a half. We got along for the most part fine. We had a time or two that we didn't agree on something that happened. But that blew over and I thought things were doing quiet well. I talked to her quiet often about quitting my job. I was so stressed out.
I had typed many more paragraphs to this blog, thinking I would post it. In reading back over it, I thought this is too long. Not everyone is insterested in all the details. But then as I have said before, this blog is mostly for me. It helps a lot getting my feelings out and down on paper, so I can read what I have written. This is a place for me to put my feelings down. It was too long and I erased about 3 or 4 paragraphs. Now I will have to finish this later. My family is hungry and thinks I need to fix some lunch. The first OU football game of the season is here and the guys are all charged up about it. So for now tah tah.
Starlight
I have worked for the Inola Public Library for 13 years. I started in 1995 as a volunteer and kept moving up. In 2000 I was hired as the Library Assistant. In 2005 I was hired as the Director. This last position I really didn't want. Too much headache and stress. I never wanted to be the boss. The only reason I took it, I was running the library until they hired another Director. The last Director, Linda Shaw, had retired and given a two weeks notice, but they had not filled her position. The board hired me as interim. I had gotten a big raise, just to stay. The reason I took the Director's job, if I stayed as the assistant and they hired a new Director, my pay would drop back to what I was making before I took the job of interim. There was no way I wanted to loose that much money. So I interviewed for and got the Director's job.
In the beginning things weren't so bad, I was already doing it as interim. They hired me an assistant which I got along with quiet well. She was there for a year, but had to retire due to health problems. I was on my own again. We interviewed for a new assistant. I had two ladies that I know try for the job. Either one would have been fine by me. I now wish I had picked the first one we interviewed. I think things would have worked out different. We hired the second one. I thought she would be great. She even left another job to come and work for me at the library. She only wanted a part-time job, which is what the assistant's job was. She has worked for me for a year and a half. We got along for the most part fine. We had a time or two that we didn't agree on something that happened. But that blew over and I thought things were doing quiet well. I talked to her quiet often about quitting my job. I was so stressed out.
I had typed many more paragraphs to this blog, thinking I would post it. In reading back over it, I thought this is too long. Not everyone is insterested in all the details. But then as I have said before, this blog is mostly for me. It helps a lot getting my feelings out and down on paper, so I can read what I have written. This is a place for me to put my feelings down. It was too long and I erased about 3 or 4 paragraphs. Now I will have to finish this later. My family is hungry and thinks I need to fix some lunch. The first OU football game of the season is here and the guys are all charged up about it. So for now tah tah.
Starlight
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