Movin’ on up!
I was more than an hour late for work just the other day (thanks every taxi in stuy town deciding to be unavailable…). The rest of my day didn’t get any better since I was deeply hungover, catching up on work, and lots on my mind (intentionally being vague…may decide to blog about what who has been on my mind soon 
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It also didn’t help that the weather in the city has been getting colder and colder by the hour. If you’ve been following my blog, you know I only came to New York with one suitcase, filled with my wardrobe from May aka summer clothes. So I’ve been completely unprepared for any temperatures below the 60s. Long story short, I had my sister ship me a box full of my winter clothes a week ago, wasn’t home for the pick up, rescheduled a delivery, USPS never redelivered it nor did they notify me they were going to ignore my redelivery request, and just decided to return the package to sender. Disaster.
I know, I know who cares, this stuff is boring…but have to mention it because USPS’s lack of customer service and utter failure as a courier was adding on to my shitty day. I was fighting and screaming at USPS all day, hungover, desperately trying to catch up on work piling up in my inbox and still couldn’t shake what was on my mind.
It was only 3p, but I was packing my things to leave. No point in sticking around trying to work when my productivity wouldn’t be as efficient nor would my concentration be 100%. Just as I was getting ready to walk out of the office I got a call from our mail room saying I had a package waiting for me (no, not my winter clothes unfortunately). I wasn’t expecting anything since no one who would send me a package knows my work address (at least that’s what I thought…). I received a tote that I’ve been meaning to buy with a message attached, but no sender. I wondered who I spoke to about this tote and tried to link it to who would be so kind to send it to me…with no such luck. Will keep you posted if the mystery sender become revealed…this definitely helped cheer me up.
But then when I returned to my desk, my boss pulled me aside. I was for certain he was going to question my tardiness this morning, and was going through my mind a plausible explanation (since the factual one wasn’t going to cut it lol). Luckily, he wanted to discuss good news not bad news! He asked me if I would be interested in joining in on some refresher training sessions that our department is currently in the process of conducting. The training is completely over my head and a few steps above my position, but he requested I be a part of it since he thinks it would be beneficial to my growth in the company. Relieved that I wasn’t been called out on my late start that morning and shocked by his belief in my growth potential, I went from a sucky day to an ok day, to a good day. I’ve only been with the company since July, so the fact that my direct boss trusts my work ethic enough to invest so early means the world to me.
It gets better…right before I was walking out the door for the day, a senior exec from the marketing department approached me. She said that a little bird told her that I’m an aspiring writer and offered me some copy writing projects whenever my plate isn’t so full. I immediately accepted and told her that while I am not published anywhere, I would love to help out with smaller projects and campaigns to test the waters. I was amazed about how quickly and easily people were willing to help me gain experience and move up.
Life is funny that way…start out rock bottom and somehow find your way to the top. Word on the street is my stock is rising. Better invest now! 
