Let’s just start out with a God is good in everything He does; especially when things look dim and bleak, that’s how you know God is working within you. In my last manager meeting, my swearing was addressed and I took ownership over that and if I couldn’t get my promotion to crisis navigator/substance use outreach now due to my lack of care with my poor rhetoric, I would take a step back and reflect and see what work I could do to improve moving forward. They saw I took ownership of my mistakes and so today was the day that I was offered this crisis navigator position by one of the senior directors!!!

I should be getting my official hire offer letter by Thursday, January the 9th. So nothing is official -official til then but my boss ran after me in the parking lot asking if I got the position and she yelped in joy when I said yes I am just waiting on the letter. She was like go tell your new boss and I’m like nahhhh I want to call my husband and tell my parents as well because this has been such a long time coming. I mean, we started hearing rumors of me getting another position just shortly after Kyle and I’s honeymoon mid-October and now it is mid – January. I’ll have to be in the homeless shelter for the rest of the month and maybe the first week of February… since there is no one to replace me in the shelter and we are already short staffed, the senior director wanted to ensure some more coverage so that the shelter doesn’t shut down (which it might anyway depending on our license agreement is expiring in a week, but that’s another story). But I told him that I have a surgery consult on Monday, January 13th for my sleep apnea surgery and I had yet to know when that might be happening but he told me if I could schedule it before I start in this new role, but he’d be flexible with me and willing to work with the situation which is wonderful because I truly need this surgery so I can get off my “stay awake” shift worker medication and hopefully can control/reduce my Red Bull consumption because it is ridiculous and expensive.

Before saying he would be sending me an official offer letter and the start date is to remain unset until I can figure out when surgery is, he did mention that he’s worked for a lot of agencies that I have worked for in the past and knowing how those places were along with my personality and need for guidance (I don’t need a lot of guidance but being in a new role, I prefer the reassurance I am meeting the task load at hand.) ANYWHO. He said that there is a lot of freedom to do what you want in this role which I might find mildly infuriating because there’s no policies and procedures from the WAC (Washington Administration Code) and other licenses creating a sort of structure, but with that being said, I am able to keep and maintain better relationships and rapport with my clients because we are not bound to this specific framework.

I think I will find this infuriating because I love structure. Even the shelter has rules and structure. I mean, yes we have a lot of free time in this role which is nice, but I know that as long as I perform x, y, and z, I can have whatever spare time to myself to do as I please unless or until an emergency or certain situation arises. But I will have a good person training me and I am looking forward to learning the things and becoming successful in this new role.

That’s it for now, time to go celebrate!

Much love,

Dani