The New Job

Okay, okay. I know I change jobs like most people change underwear. It's like I have this permanent nagging voice in the back of my head telling me to move on once I have reached a certain level of success. I started to count all the jobs I have had since I graduated from Texas A&M (greatest college on earth), and I am officially embarrassed. I will say, however, that I have never, ever been fired from a job. I always leave on my own terms and of my own choosing.

So you can all join in my humiliation, here is the running tally:
1. Texaco: big city, boring job
2. Williams: same big city, lots of traveling, like watching paint dry on a daily basis.
3. Dell: white collar sweatshop meets Melrose Place. At least I snagged a hubby!
4. The Gap: Yes, that's right. I took a job that paid $7/hour just to pay for mother's day out in Little Rock.
5. TAP Pharm: 1st pharma job, fantastic partners and manager, tnen I moved home and the opposite happened. BAD manager, 1 bad co-worker, and 1 good new friend. Yes Andrea, you are the friend, not bad co-worker.
6. Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharm: 6 months. Again, 1 really bad co-worker, and 1 very good friend.
7. PLATO: Best paying job I ever had. Most stressful and worst boss I have ever had. Add a new baby in the mix, and post Costa-Rica sales trip win, and I was outta there. Oh yeah - 1 more great co-worker.
8. InVentiv: Contract Pharma. Awesome job, awesome manager, awesome co-workers, and I did awesome too! Contracted was terminated and I hit the unemployment line.
9. Substitute teaching: Does this count as an actual job or babysitting? High school freshman are awful. But I do admit, there are some pretty great teachers still teaching at WHS.
10. Rio Grande Regional Hospital: 8-5 office hell, won't elaborate.
11. Innovex: Contract Pharma. Praying this gig lasts. I will admit schlepping around the Valley in the 100+ degree heat sucks the big one, but at least I get paid for it!

My only hope is that those who have worked with me know that I give my jobs (notice plural) 100%. I can never not work, as I have bad, expensive habits that don't allow for it. When my kids go to college and don't have to take out student loans, maybe they'll thank me one day. When Carter is speaking in full, complete sentences, hopefully one day he'll know that his therapy and schooling may have cost quite a bit, but was worth every sweaty penny I ever earned.