Shifting priorities

I would have blogged about this sooner, but I've been busy (no excuse, right?). Last week I received some bad news; I'm being laid off from my current position on Feb. 6th. Not completely unexpected, but still a big blow. Just when I thought I had laid out some nice goals and plans for 2009, this comes along and shakes everything up.

This is when it is good to be flexible and resilient. Thankfully, I'm both. So how is job searching going to be affecting this blog and my FSO goals? Well, that depends. If I don't have a new position by April/May, I may decide to move up my plans of taking the FSOT. No point in waiting around until Oct. if I need a job now. However, if I secure a position relatively quickly (crosses fingers), then I'll probably push back my plans again. I'm not a job hopper so I would never want to leave a job so quickly, assuming I passed the tests and all.

Things are up in the air at the moment, but the blog will continue! Let's see how things play out.

Hello 2009

It is the new year and I know it will go by fast. I have decided that I will sign up for the FSOT testing window for October of this year. That means I have a lot of preparations to make in about 10 months. Yikes.

This is earlier than I was planning on taking the test because I wanted to give myself more time to prepare. I'm sure that to a certain extent I am overly worried about my abilities. However, I would rather be over prepared for the test than under prepared and fail horribly. But if I don't pass, I can still take it the following year. I lose nothing by taking the test this year and probably have a lot more to gain.

So with my goal set I have a bunch of things I need to get done. Please look forward to posts on that later this month. And no, I'm not making these resolutions, I hate making resolutions.