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i never would have expected to fall amongst the ranks of unemployment…spending waaaaayyyyy too much time and energy scouring the online listings, submitting endless resumes, going to dead end interviews around the city. but somehow life led us here, after leaving the ideal job in nashville in hopes for an awesome career for wil. i actually in no way regret leaving nashville and the stability (although i miss it). this phase in our life is fabulous, and even more fabulous is what will progress from it for both me and wil.

but as life would have it, i got to try a taste of what a lot of people have been suffering through in the u.s. right now…luckily for not as long as many of them out there.

but that period has ended. after a short stint at west elm, that gave me a few hours a week of work since the holidays, i unexpectedly got a call back from a salon i interviewed with pre-thanksgiving. the position reopened and they wanted me! turns out i was ‘number two’ all along, and some of the girls wanted me to be hired in the first place.

i started my first day on monday, as the receptionist (but basically the catch-all doing whatever i can all day to make the hair salon run smoothly). i have really enjoyed it so far, and it will definitely be a job where i never have slow days, and always be doing something. the girls are wonderful, and i can tell it’s a similar tight knit ‘family’ environment that i had left at alcott. surprisingly, the biggest learning curve will not necessarily be the computer system or the daily tasks, but knowing the hair treatments! i’m somewhat of a novice for growing up with my mom trimming my hair, only getting a drastic salon cut maybe once a year or so as an adult, and only using a boxed dye once. i see a visual transformation soon….ideas?

it may not be design, but i have the rest of my life to pick up design again. i used to wonder why people wouldn’t try their everything to do what they went to school for, but now being in that position, i know i have way too much life ahead of me to be worried about not working in the design field for a few years. and as ecclesiastes assures, there is truly a time for everything.