I have excellent news to announce with this post, I would have done so earlier but to say the least it has been an extremely busy week. On Monday it was formally announced with my company that I had been promoted to a management position within my company. Obviously with promotions come added responsibilities and with those added tasks comes the best part, a pay raise.
The beneficial part of all of this is that I have been able to scale back my part time job to almost none with the raise and it is truly a blessing. I jokingly stated that my bed had been missing me, but the truth of the matter is I’ve been missing my family. For those who have not been a reader long enough, prior to Monday I had been working seven days per week since October to allow my wife the opportunity to be a stay-at-home mom. The results were 70 hour work weeks between the two jobs and now I finally have the ability to relax a little and gear up for those aforementioned responsibilities.
The promotion came exactly six months and two days from my hire date and I am ecstatic at the opportunity I have before me. Starting next week I will have more time to devote to my family, to my work outs, to this website, but most importantly to the amount of sleep I receive. In the past four months I have had exactly five days off with three of them coming at the tragic loss of my step-dad and the other being at Thanksgiving and Christmas day respectfully. For those who say the American dream is not about hard work, for those who say let the Government provide for you, I merely suggest doing what I did for myself and my family. Grab your bootstraps and pull-up.
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