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There's some chaotic energy in the air rn and it is NOT OK but also A LITTLE OK.

So last week my lawn mower got back from the shop after being dead, yay. Then I find my fridge has died, not yay. Bought a new one because the old one was old and not worth the cost of fixing by my own diagnosis. So that's a nice big bill. I'm also trying to get parts to build a computer so I'm already short on cash, thankfully my husband footed a lot of the cash (separate finances because I guess that's a millennial thing?) ANYWAY it's been a weird few weeks.

On the work side of things I've been pretty unhappy with a lot for a while, I've worked at this company for 8 years and have moved up the chain a bit but I still only make $20 an hour for a highish stress, psuedo-leadership position (I'm an auditor/subject matter expert). I do a lot, I work hard, and my department does a lot for health insurance claim compliance, we've been credited with "millions in savings" and yet the corporate gods will not raise the budget to pay us more than the 2-3% annual bump for the past oh... 4 years. The beginning of this year they announced our raises were going to be in effect 4 months later than usual to save money, the same week they announced 3 new board members. Real scummy for an "employee culture" company. So this past week the president, vice president, and my manager's direct report announced they were retiring/moving on to another opportunity. If you don't know corporate, that's the reddest of flags you can get, the canary in the coal mine is dead, the rats are fleeing to higher ground.... get out. Now I've been through some of these restructures with this company before, I mean I've been in health insurance for 8 years through the ACA and everything, stuff has happened and I've ridden through it without much issue. But with feeling so stagnant, and being almost guilted into staying rather than moving to a different dept for vertical movement because we're so short staffed, I'm just done with the place.

Last week, during one of the "restructure update meetings" I was surfing jobs around here for the field I'm in, and wouldn't you know it my doctor's network group is hiring for something I literally do now. So this weekend I zipzap slap on a coat of paint to my resume and send it out - and not 24 hours later I get an email for a phone interview. To say that happened too fast is an understatement, I am feeling many emotions but mostly confusion. I haven't interviewed at a company outside of mine for.... 8 years! What do I do?! Will I like it? How do I negotiate salary and benefits and can I still work at home? Will I go crazy driving to work every day if not?

Also, did I mention, I'm back in college right now getting an HIMT degree (health information management) and as of right now I'm 30 credits from completion, so about 1 year of full time work/1.5 for me probably from graduation. So I'm doing school work part time, full time work, building a PC, looking for a job, and a lot of this just happened in the past couple weeks. I'm a person that likes to move and do stuff and not stand still but holy crap this is a lot.

Oh and my husband got diagnosed with celiac, he was just "gluten allergy" for a long time but got retested last week after a few months of being back on the gluten, so YAY new diet, new meal planning, etc. At least we should be getting healthy doing this but YIKES.