Who's driving this bus anyways.....

The bus that I am referring to the proverbial bus that I seem to keep getting thrown under. Are the bus drivers job sharing? Since flexible work arrangements seem to be the thing these days, who knows. The reason I ask this is as it seems each day at work brings new enlightenment to the situation of job loss. Yesterday I found out that they are laying me off, yet promoting someone in my group, who does nothing of substance. No offense to her personally, I am sure she is a nice lady and all, but just because you are older than me, does not mean you can come into the company at a lower grade them mind you. And boss me around. Which is pretty much how it has been since she started 6 months ago. And now to know that I am going to be jobless, and she is promoted to my pay grade.... well that was just yet another tire on the bus rolling over me.

So now I am in the "what to do I want to be when I grow up" train of thought. And my best friend since second grade. Okay, technically we didn't meet until later in school, but we found out that we were actually in the same class in 2nd grade, so technically in a subconscious kind of way, I have know her since 2nd grade. But hey, anything over 20 yrs is null and void anyhow, so let's just say it is over 20 yrs. She has also recently lost her job, and is now struggling to find a good paying job. She lives in a different area of the country than I, but we still keep in touch. Well I bumped into this idea, that just seemed to strike a cord with me. Probably sounded more like a violin cord breaking... but a cord none the less. And the idea just seemed so perfect for us, us meaning she and I... I and she.. me and her... frick and frack. The idea is why not try to start a Virtual Assistant business. She and I have both been in the business world for close to 20 yrs, and she has over 18 yrs as an Executive Administrative Assistant. And not just an EAA, but to some pretty high up folks in the business industry. What do I bring to the table, well I have a background in technology. A little of this and a little of that. Project management, Sharepoint Administration, DB administration. I have Six Sigma (Google it) skills, and e-learning development and training in the corporate sector down to a science. Especially virtually. I have been in a virtual support role now for close to 10 yrs. So why not right? With the way the economy is going.. you know straight down... to you know where.... and probably in some cute hand basket or something. I am sure folks are going to want to be cutting back on somethings, but not sacrificing the end product. And we think that is where we would come in, as a team and provide excellent services for those who need it.

I will let you know how this little endeavor pans out. But I am really excited about it. She and I are doing our research on it now, and taking baby step by baby step, I just may be a few skips ahead of her. ;)

E comes home tomorrow he has been gone for almost 3 weeks, it has been a long 3 weeks. One of the boys needs to go to the Dr tomorrow, so I am trying to figure out the whole how one will eat breakfast and one won't. Maybe I will just bring them both to daycare and let them feed them, run an errand up the street and come back and get him after he is done eating??..... still thinking on it. I have cleaned the entire house, and got caught up on all the laundry, hence the fact that my eyes are still open at 10pm. Way past my bed time. That being said... "night night" as the boys would say.