New Job Update

I’ve been asked about how the new job is going. And I realized that I haven’t told you guys how the past two weeks have been going, my bad!

• New Job is great. I’m the Membership Director for a National Non-Profit that supports honors students at colleges and universities around the country. Its a big job, but I’m pretty excited about it.
• There is still so much to learn. And we’re getting a brand new membership database next month, so I have to learn the old AND the new! Stress! 
• Things are ever-evolving at work and so there are new things being thrown at me and new responsibilities. It’s exciting. They really seem to value me, and my skill set. 
• It is COMPLETELY outside of my wheelhouse of what I went to school to do; TV News Producing. However, I feel like I have the skills to be awesome at it.
• I work 7am to 4pm. Some pretty sweet hours. HOWEVER, they are hard to make work for someone who likes to run outside before work in the morning. Currently, it is much too dark at 5am so I’m running on the treadmill. It’s not ideal, but it will do.
• And speaking of that, who am I? I willingly set my alarm to get me up at 4:50am so I’m on the treadmill by 5:10ish (because, let’s be honest, I hit the snooze and have to wake up before I can bang out 3+ miles in the morning!)
• I’ve been running outside some in the afternoons too (when it’s not fires-of-hades hot outside) which it currently is.
• On that note, I got a Fitbit this week. I did the Flex and I love it. I like the silent alarms, and I am OBSESSED with tracking and getting my steps in. I talked on the phone with my friend Andrew for 45 minutes the other night. I paced the entire house while we spoke and managed to get another mile in! My roomie came home in the midst of that and was concerned that I was nervous about who I was talking to! Nope, just trying to be more active.
• I’ve hit my 10,000 goal so far each day this week. I even go for walks at lunch and pace around the office. (We’re located in one of the Residence Halls on The University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus). So I see a lot of students all day long.
• I don’t want to jinx it, but the steps and watching what I eat seems to be working; as I am down 4 pounds! Ideally, I’d like to lose 11 more, but I will be happy if I can get 6 more off. Baby steps.
• Big weekend ahead; dinner for my ex-coworker who is leaving The Ocho today, pool time and a hair cut tomorrow, and then tennis with my bestie on Sunday. Busy, busy. 
• COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON STARTS NEXT WEEK!!!!!  I love my Huskers! Go Big Red!!