On the job front

things are getting really exciting. i don't know where to start! something new just happens everyday, and i find myself in a few situations that i've never been in before. these include:

• being offered a position and salary higher than what i applied for
  
• ... and seeing that there's more to choosing a job than that
• making human resources wait for my decision (four days and counting)
  
• ... and being nothing but completely honest to get that much-needed time
  
• working for a company that i told myself at the start of the year i would work for (this on  monday as i begin a three-week full-time contract with BDA)
  
• really making a choice based on long-term career plans (a true first!)
  
• considering things like love, ownership, responsibility, opportunity, work-life balance
• being made to feel that my being a foreigner was not a disadvantage
• hearing my three key buzzwords (fun, passion, inspiring) used to describe a job
• knowing that i have time and i can choose

i see now that the past six months of just keeping at it has not just netted me an offer (or two...), but all of these. and you know what? it's worth it.