Home sweet home...?

I am an Arkansas resident.

It's kind of nice to be in a place away from home with my husband for us to call our home. But I think the frustrating thing is, neither of us want this to be our home. We both know that this is a place for us to save money and plan for the future.

The hard thing is, right now we're not very sure at all of what the future holds.

We both know I will probably stay with the hospital until we're ready to leave Arkansas. It'll give me lots of experience and the loyalty to one company will look good. And hopefully we'll stay at the hospital long enough for me to have the appropriate experience level to apply for other HR jobs when we move.

It's been so long since Sean interviewed with Walgreens.

The frustrating thing is, the probably are wanting him to move up to management. I mean, they have to find out where he'll move and give two weeks notice, but the district manager hasn't bothered to contact anyone. It's obvious that a photo tech moving to assistant manager isn't even a blip on his radar. That is so disheartening for anyone. And I can tell you from experience, your degree not really being recognized is frustrating. It feels like you wasted four years of your life to rack up some dept and make some new friends for a few years.

He's put in some other apps and has an interview set up for Wednesday. We just need prayers. We need some sort of sign of where to go. Sean needs to have a job that's more challenging that running a register and developing pictures. But we also need a job that will allow one of us to transfer when we are ready to move so we are able to have a source from day one in our new residence.

Granted, I get frustrated with my job too.

Our manager is sometimes on top of things. But a lot of times, she's nowhere to be found. I wrote entire handbook and gave it to her before I left for the wedding/holidays. I have been told to replace every "employee" with "associate" and try to get rid of any "musts" in the text. I have not received any other edit. I think she may have said a total of 50 words that are work related. I have no idea where she sees my position going or where she sees me developing in the department.

But, at least I know that in everything I do, I am making someone's day a little bit easier. Helping them utilize our benefits, making sure licenses are up to date, recognizing every employee's birthday, making sure everyone is entered correctly into our system, getting the right people into the right job. And I've realized I absolutely love my career path. Even with a company I'm not really sure of, I know that I picked the right field to go into.

I want that for Sean. Heck, I want that for everyone. But I especially want it for the man I love.