Promoted

I've been dying to post about this for weeks now, but have been forbidden to do so until it was official.  Well, today, it's official!  John was offered a new position with his company.  He'll now be a Senior Product Manager (his current job is as a Supervisor for customer service reps).  This is a big deal.  It's been in the works for something like six weeks and really all we've been thinking about and talking about for the last month.

From what I understand, this new position will be very similar to what I used to do for a living (only better pay, better benefits and a cooler title), working with the IT department in creating and rolling out new software (not the actual eBay website apps, but the inhouse software the customer service reps use).  I'm surprised it never occurred to me before, but it is a job that John is perfectly suited for.  He has excellent written and verbal communication skills and his attention to detail borders on an OCD disorder.  He will kick ass in this job.  He'll be fantastic!  Particularly exciting is that this new position takes his career in a completely different direction than he'd been headed.  It's a whole new world opening up to him and an amazing opportunity to gain new skills and experience.  I couldn't possibly be more proud of him.

This is the big change at his work that I was alluding to in an earlier post about him not being able to take his paternity leave as planned.  He will start working in his new position the day after Memorial Day, and I could have the baby any time in the next four weeks.  Obviously they don't want him to take so much time off so soon after starting work, not to mention, they are busy and need him working through the summer. It's really hard to be upset about him not getting the time off because a) HE GOT PROMOTED!  WOO HOO! and b) he still has those five weeks available and we're now planning a big family vacation in the Fall (a vacation we'll now be able to afford with the increase in pay that comes along with this promotion).

I hope he will write about it on his blog (Honey, UPDATE YOUR BLOG!!!), because he's REALLY excited about it, as he should be.