Because it's the new year, and I haven't written anything in a while, I thought I'd recap some of the things that happened to me in 2008.
I had applied to two business schools – McCombs at the University of Texas, Austin, and San Diego State. I got into neither. But I still want an MBA, so I'm taking Calculus & Stats to brush up and applying to Hayward. (Cal State East Bay if you must call it by its new name.) It will take longer than I hoped, and I still don't know exactly how I'm going to pay for it, but that's my plan.
I went to an orphanage in Ecuador in July. It was fabulous! My horrible Spanish. The wonderful kids. The amazing field trips. Living as a part of the Body of Christ in a real, not an abstract or theological, sense. Having an awe-inspiring godly woman share both the heartaches and the triumphs as she does God's will.
I took calculus for business & social science majors at the local junior college. I've never been good at math; even in kindergarten, I was in the 'slow' math class. So I'm super excited to have gotten A's on most of my tests.
The bulk of my job is repetitive and unfulfilling, (part of the reason I applied to business school), so I've started the process of looking for a new job. My objective is, "To help clients determine their database needs and/or implement their chosen database solutions(s)." In typical Edem fashion, I'm not quite sure what that looks like out in the working world. So I'm taking my time with this search. One of my goals is to come up with a list of potential employers, and submit my resume to some of them.
Resume writing has been rough. There was a major update that I did to an MS Access database at my last employer. I remember making copies of the database, testing different things, making new tables and links. But I can't remember the purpose of the update. So I can't really highlight on my resume, lest someone asks. I know. I'm a bonehead.
My (now former) boss left in September. All of my best bosses were analytically minded detail oriented people who saw my potential and were able to push and guide me to be better than I imagined I could be. I've lost that. Adaptation has been difficult.
I got a promotion, effective October. My job duties haven't really changed, however, I may become a database administrator for our new database.
Hoping for a good 2009,
