Synchronicity and success

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Astrology, Black Seeds, Employment, Gigs, Job, Leather boots, Little black dress, Predictions, Reggae, Success, Synchronicity, Zombie

I’ve been off the air most of the last two days. Things have been a tad hectic.

And I’m sorry to say I have been holding out on y’all a little. So here it is – a synopsis of the last week, with a focus on my Thursday and Friday…

The other week I wrote about my most recent Vedic astrology phone reading on Sunday and some of the predictions that I was given.

One of the main things I was interested in, is if I was EVER gonna get a job again any time soon. Now, in my post about the reading, I wrote: “Josie thinks I should be offered a job pretty imminently“. Imminently was my interpretation of what she actually said – which was, “I won’t be surprised if you get a job this week“.

I didn’t convey exactly what she said because you know, I was lacking confidence. Not in Josie’s prediction, just in myself. And it was a pretty definite statement. But guess what??

Yep! I FINALLY HAVE A NEW JOB!! Start Monday. Whoo hoo!! 🙂

I had my first interview with them on Tuesday afternoon. The fact this interview happened at all was amazing, since I’d somehow managed to include an old email address with my job application. Doh! Quite unforgivable for someone who’s a geek. So they were trying to email me and getting a permanent bounce. Luckily for me, they actually bothered to pick up the phone and call me anyhow.

I was booked in for an hour, but when we looked up it was ten minutes short of two hours. I met with the company owner and their Business Development Manager. Things definitely felt positive, but I’ve been there before in recent times, so I wasn’t gonna believe it just yet.

But in that session, they asked for my references and told me they wanted to see me for a second interview. As I was leaving, the guy who owns the company said: “I feel like we’ve all had a really great connection“. Sounded a little like what you might say after a good first date! But… so far, so good.

Then I got the call about another day of temp work on Thursday. And then I had my morning saved by a very kind human being. The temp work was pretty much doing nothing all day and getting paid for it. Sweet!

Thursday night my friend L and I had tickets to a gig (awesome reggae band called the Black Seeds).

In the afternoon, I checked my emails to find out I’d been asked back in for a second interview on Friday. I said yes ofcourse. BUT I didn’t have any suitable interview clothes with me… so after I finished doing nothing all day at 5pm, I hurried over to the big mall near L’s work.

Once again, I said a couple of quick prayers – let me find something to wear for tomorrow’s interview, let me find it quickly and make sure it goes with my black leather boots (the only footwear I had with me).

As many of you gals out there well know, shopping for something specific in a short timeframe isn’t always easy. But I found a funky little black dress and some accessories within thirty minutes!

Unbeknownst to me, L had told a certain boy of our plans for the evening. The one who recently caused me some confusion. He kinda invited himself along. So the three of us had drinks, then dinner (which the boy went out of his way to pay for). Then t’was off to the gig. My word, I had no idea Kiwis could rock the reggae so well! I was a bliss zombie before the night was out – we crashed around 2am.

But good news about the state of confusion – I have no idea what this boy’s motives are, but I’ve definitely decided he’s not for me. He plays things way too coy which aint good for a straight shooter. I need things to be a little more upfront than that! So I’m just going to enjoy his friendship and that’s all. [Relief!]

Friday morning I rocked up for my interview in my cute ‘n’ funky outfit and was pretty much offered the job straight up. This time I was in there for almost four hours – talking through some more of my experience, looking at some technical stuff and then they took me out to lunch! Its a very small business full of smart and friendly people. Think I’m gonna like it there.

The money is actually a little more than I wanted, and my first day on Monday will be a road trip to meet some clients a couple of hours out of town, tagging along with the Business Development Manager.

It will be different, working with only a handful of people instead of the large corporate world I’ve come from. But I think its definitely a good thing, and a much needed change from “same-same” experienced in large companies with so much corporate bullshit and red tape.

And then three for three – on hearing the good news, my parents decide to spring for dinner. Perhaps they’re just glad that soon I’ll be getting out of their hair?? 😉

So yay! I wanted to thank those of you who’ve been listening to me mope and complain here. New adventures await…

~Svasti

P.S.

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Job, P.S.

The very next day…

I wake up after my late night (writing the last couple of posts). Its the day after my wonderful day of insights and bird encounter… and the first bite in all this time – I’m offered some temp work for tomorrow. Earning actual money. Whoo hoo!!

~Svasti

Tear it all down

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Change, Job, Life, Moving, Travel

Today is the beginning of some huge changes I’m making in my life.

For a long time things have been very much ‘same-same’. No changes. No movement out of the ghetto I’ve been sheltering in.

Despite everything I’ve tried, I haven’t been able to lose weight (I know this is energetic/emotional). I haven’t been able to move forward, meet the man of my dreams. I haven’t been able to put the past in the past. I have been unhappy with my workplace situation. I haven’t been having my regular deja vu experiences – which are like signposts to me that I’m on the right course in my life.

Then earlier this year, I had mystery shoulder pain to deal with. Once I finally figured out what that was all about and started therapy… well that’s when all these changes started to snowball. My mother went into hospital for her third surgery in twelve months and at the same time my 93 year old grandmother had yet another fall, and was moved from her ‘independant with much help’ life to life in a nursing home (which she hates). I was also having a minor anxiety attack at the huge rent increase the landlords wanted on top of another pretty decent one six months prior. And then the news about my boss being inflexible with my holiday leave.

Ofcourse, at the same time that all this stuff has been going on, I also started this blog and decided to wrestle my darkest experiences into words and publish them on the interwebs.

Suddenly, nothing was ‘same-same’ any more!

In fact, it was big decision making time. I stopped seeing everything that was happening as a disaster and started tuning in to the Grace of the situation. And I realised it was time. Time to tear it all down.

There are various people to whom this quote is attributed (Einstein, Franklin etc):

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Nothing had been working the way it was. And I wanted things to be different??

So… I came to the conclusion that its just time for change. As my good friend L said, Well, you’ve been saying nothing is changing in your life, so isn’t this a good thing?

Right. Right!! Yes, it is a good thing. However its just a whole lotta change all at once. But taken one thing at a time, its not so bad. And actually, I couldn’t be starting therapy again at a better time really. My therapist, H, has been an amazing support.

So I did what I had to do for both my mother and grandmother. I handed in notice on my rented flat, organising to stay with my folks for a little bit before my overseas trip and for a while when I get back. And I quit my job without another one to go to.

As another one of my good friends JM would say – I’m taking a running leap and trusting that the universe will be there to support me.

So far, so good.

I’m moving this weekend. This afternoon in fact. And even though I despise moving and packing, I’m doing a damn fine job on my own! I’m leaving my work on good terms. I’ve even been told to take whatever time I need to go to job interviews. I have a second interview next week for a job that I’m really interested in, so keep your fingers crossed for me. And in a week and a half, I’ll be going overseas for five weeks on my yearly yoga retreat.

My parents are taking care of lovely Cleo the cat whilst I’m away. And when I get back, I fully expect to either already have a job or get one pretty quickly. The market for my industry is on fire at the moment!

So yeah. I could have chosen to let all this make me weak. But instead I decided to surf the wave of change, taking control, riding high and proud. It has actually been very liberating, especially at the time when I’m facing my worst demons.

Its a very strange thing to not know what your future is going to look like. I mean, none of us really do, but we generally kind of have an idea. We know where we live, what our job is (if we have one). We generally know what life will look like in a couple of months from now. I have not a clue.

And its the most excited I’ve felt in years.

~Svasti