Best Job Ever

I have never gone to an interview and not been offered the job. Never. There have been positions I have accepted and just as many that I have respectfully declined. The most important job I have ever had required no interview. I wasn't even looking for a job at the time, especially not this one. I did not get to choose my start date and it came with no monetary compensation. I honestly cannot remember officially accepting the position, although there was that unspoken understanding that I would. At that point I had been interning for 20 years, but was still far from qualified. I was told it was going to be hard work, but that the benefits were amazing and well worth all of the other sacrifices that would be necessary along the way. The funny thing about a new job is that, even with a very detailed description of responsibilities, you never really know what you're getting yourself into until you begin. I have heard people say, "If I had known what it was going to be like..." or "If I had known what I would actually be doing, I never would've accepted the position in the first place." I'm fairly confident there are people out there that feel that way about my job, but I am not one of them. This was not what I had planned for my life and I had no idea that at the age of 32 I would already have 12 years of service under my belt. However, I have the best job that any woman could hope for. I am blessed beyond measure and loved in ways that stretch higher than the stars in the sky and spans wider than the ocean. I work long hours and realize that retirement in this field does not exist. (I am perfectly ok with it.) It is the most critical position I will ever hold in my lifetime and it literally gives me an opportunity to change the world. Although my job title does me no justice with the majority of society, I can think of nothing that I would rather be called by or known as. My "subordinates" do not call me boss...they call me mom.

Happy Mother's Day