A Job!!!!

So, it has been a while since I have posted anything, but I didn't want to write anything until I had good news about a job. And now I do!!!! Last Wednesday (the day after my birthday!) I got a call from Union Pacific and they offered me a job!

I had started to get pretty discouraged with the whole job thing and even had told my roommate and my mom that morning that my hopes were really down about the whole thing. And then, that afternoon around 2:30 or so, I was just getting on the treadmill to work out and a lady from HR and Union Pacific called and offered me the job. I was soooo soooo happy. I could barely even listen to what she was saying and all the details she was sharing with me about it because I was so ecstatic. As soon as I hung up the phone with her I ran (yes really ran!) through the parking lots back to my apartment and grabbed my car keys and drove as quickly as I could to Trent's office. I don't think that it has ever taken me that long to get there! Then when I got there to tell him, he wasn't even in his office!! Figures! So I waited ten minutes or so for him to get back and then I finally could let all my excitement out and tell someone. I just couldn't stop smiling and jumping around his office. It was great!

Then, after I told him I got back in my car to go back to my apartment and as soon as I got in my car I started to call people and tell them. First my parents and my grandparents and my sister and then Melody O'Connor who I babysat for in Sioux City all through college. I am sooo grateful for her because without her I would have never even gotten the opportunity to interview there. She used to work at Union Pacific, so she passed on my resume and got it in there in front of the right people. I am so thankful and amazed how everything works out in the end!

Lauren, my roommate, was gone babysitting that afternoon until about 7 and she was the last person I had to tell that day. And I couldn't wait for her reaction. Trent and I were at my apartment when she got home and we were in the kitchen starting to make supper for the three of us (tacos that night!). I didn't really know the right way to tell her or the right moment, so she kept telling me about her day and I just smiled nonstop and couldn't stop looking over at Trent waiting for that right moment. Then, Trent asked Lauren if she liked trains, as an opener into the whole UP/job conversation. That is when Lauren started going off about why she hated trains. :) And she has a lot of reasons why she doesn't like them!! Finally, she figured out what was going on and looked at me and her eyes got really big and said, "You got the job, didn't you!" It was quite humerous and great to share that news with her.
There was only one more thing to do after that.... Update my Facebook status!!!! :)

The job that I was offerred is in Union Pacific's Accounting and Finance department. I am not certain as to the actual division of accounting or what my daily job duties will be yet, but I will know in the next few weeks. My job title is an Analyst. I start on the 26th of July, so I still have some time to enjoy being unemployed, too. But I get to do that without the worry of finding a job and stuff. I am very very excited to start work in my first "real job" and go to work in the big glass building in downtown Omaha! It is so great to have a little more certainty in my life as far as knowing that I will soon have income again and know that I can start saving for my future and stuff and it is fun to just think about the possibilities I'll have with this job and with this company and things. I am very excited to learn more about what I'll be doing every day at work and actually get to go and do those things every day.