What’s Next? (After You Lose Your Dream Job)

Honestly, I am not even sure if this post will see the light of day because I am about to vent about my job or rather than, lack thereof. I was lucky enough to work in my dream job for 7 months then abruptly get fired. Back in August a week before my birthday I got hired as an Administrative Legal Assistant at a huge non-profit in the foreclosure defense department. The department focused strictly on people that had their homes foreclosed on or in auction. We saved many people’s homes in the process, and I loved being a part of that. It is a very rewarding career, and I will miss it tremendously.

Everyone that truly knows me knows how much I am very passionate about homeless prevention something that our country is totally capable of getting rid of but CHOOSE not to. Read that again, imagine living in the richest and most powerful country in the world BUT that does not take care of their own citizens. Anyways, I digress.

I worked at this non-profit as there ALS, I did intakes and basically the face of our Housing Foreclosure Prevention department.

Along the way though I got ill multiple times, still am sick with kidney infections. I was born with a birth defect that came with kidney complications. I also ended up in the hospital for several days. At the same time this is happening my boss is out because she is dealing with her own health issues.

So, my boss has no idea what truly is going on because she is not working or privy to what is going on in the office. It turns out the program coordinator was not telling my boss that I was out and in the hospital.

The program coordinator did not like me but I am the type to ignore the negativity so it never bothered me.

She always gave me issues when asking her questions since she had been there longer I would ask her and plus she is the PROGRAM COORDINATOR. I always assumed it was okay to trust her but I soon realized that she was not to be trusted. The one time she was in charge and I ended up in the hospital she did not even notify anyone on top of her which would be our supervisor who is sick. Since our supervisor was not available then she should have notified the next person in charge but she did not.

When they gave me my exit meeting with HR they had no idea that I was in the hospital. This non-profit made it known that I did not matter and my disability and sickness did not matter. They did not care about me and my health issues but they did care about my supervisor health issues. This is all a huge mess and it has made me very upset about all this. The legal field is like this though they do not care about the legal assistants and/ or paralegals when you are at that level they feel like you are easily replaceable

BTW we all work remotely. I loved working at my job and saw a future there.

Call me naïve but I thought I would retire from that job. But now I must move on, I am not sure what the future holds or if I still want to be in non-profit. I do know for sure though that I need to somehow create my own business, so this is how this blog was born. I love writing and designing websites and been designing websites since I been 14 years old and consider it my creative outlet. Some people can draw and paint, mine is writing and designing websites. I am hoping maybe I can turn this crazy hobby into a career. So I hope you follow along on my journey. I have many ideas for content.

Enough about me but do you have any goals you might have? OR what is your creative outlet? It could be anything as long as it puts a smile on your face that is all that matters.
I will forever miss my job but obviously I am not meant to stay there. Maybe I was only supposed to be there for a season and that season has come to an end unfortunately. So here is to the next chapter and hopefully not panicking how I am going to pay my bills. haha!

Love,