NEW JOB!!!!!

EDIT: Spelling corrections. I can't believe how many errors I had in here! You'd never think I graduated from college with a really good GPA! Shaking my head at myself.

So I haven't been looking for a new job, since they really need me at my current job and I have no interest in giving up my three day weekends (Provo works a 4/10 schedule), nor am I interested in commuting to Salt Lake or wherever.

Then, a month ago or so, my coworker tells me that Summit County is posting for a Planner III. Now, a Planner III requires 4 or 5 years of experience, and I have 1.5 years, but I'm curious so I look anyway, since I love Summit County (Utah, the County where Park City is), and my boyfriend lives there, and I spend 3 - 4 days a week up there already. Looking at the job posting, I notice that while they are advertising for a Planner III, they've listed the qualification for a Planner III, II, AND I! I call. They inform me that they might be willing to hire a Planner I instead.

I apply.

Two weeks later, I'm up in Summit, out in Coalville (25 miles further than Park City), interviewing. Grueling. The head planner and another planner ask me a few questions, then assign me to review a cluster density bonus agricultural preservation subdivision, or something like that. I've never reviewed a subdivision, only the occasional commercial plan and little residential parking plans! I start to sweat. They hand me the codebook, and leave the room. I spend the first 15 minutes just reading the code, determining what zone it's in, what the density bonus reqs are, and so on, and then do my best. After 45 minutes, the entire planning staff parades in, and they ask me to present my findings on the subdivision as though I were presenting to the Planning Commission! I feel pretty confident, giving a short presentation, then asking a few questions to clarify their procedures.

Follows is a panel interview with random people just asking questions, no order it seemed.

I guess it went well, since they've offered me the position! I'm moving up to Park City, and will start in a couple weeks I guess (I've just got the basic offer, not the package information yet. Should get that tomorrow, so I'll know more about benefits).

Crazy how your whole life can change in just a few days, or a few instants.