Decision Made

After months of wondering what I am going to do career-wise, I have decided to give contract work a try. While it's harder to find steady work and I will be self-employed (so no benefits, vacation time, etc.), it enables me to pick and choose jobs, work part-time or temporarily and, best of all, allows me to be home with Will at least part of the time.

A good friend of mine works for a local tech company here in Austin and introduced me to her VP of Marketing (it's all about networking). After several conversations and meeting the entire marketing team, they decided to hire me for 20 hours a week indefinitely. I am excited to have found something relatively flexible and still in my field of expertise. However, now I have the joy of trying to find childcare for Will. I think I've found a day care that he'll go to two days a week and a babysitter who will watch him a half day a week. It's not exactly fun to hand him over to someone else's care, so this is a big change for our family. The next few weeks will be a whirlwind, I'm sure, as we adjust to our new schedule.

Now we'll see how I do juggling a job, school (I'm taking a class at UT this semester), volunteer work at the Austin Children's Shelter (I'm doing some marketing projects for them), training for a half marathon and most importantly, caring for my son and husband. More to come on how this story goes for the Fanning family...