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\"\"<\/a>My moment’s a little round-about this week, so bear with me.
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\nI used to work in an office and was part of the management team for awhile. I worked on projects. I did reviews of personnel. I went to a ridiculous amount of meetings. I never looked at it as a career. It was a job. I knew somewhere in my mind that I would not be doing that job forever. But while I was there, I put all my energy and focus into doing my best.
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\nThis week, a former management colleague and one of my best friends, contacted me for a reference letter. She, like so many of the women I know, stopped working after her second child was born and just recently re-entered the work force. I would do anything for her and happily said yes.
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\nThen reality hit. I haven’t written a business document that someone else would read in ages! How do I even get started? Google, baby. There are actual templates where you just plug in the person’s name and the letter is written for you. That is simply Cheating! I ain’t no cheater. So, I opened a fresh word processing document and just started writing. It was seriously like buh-tah. The flow of words and business speak came back to me so easily that it was a little scary. I think it helped that I love this woman I was writing for and that we worked together for seven years, but that business-y language is something I must be fluent in.
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\nParts of my life would be so much easier if I still worked in an office. I think if I had stuck to the fast track, I would be making oodles of money and have a big title under my name. And I would be writing business reports instead of blog posts. My moment is knowing that I am right where I am supposed to be right now. I was good at that, and now, I’m trying to be good at this.
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\nOM is *one moment* and is a meetup designed to notice & relish a moment in everyday life. The meetup idea was created by Linda at her blog, a la mode stuff<\/a>.
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\nIf you’d like to participate in OM, just click the button and you’ll be taken to Linda’s post explaining it all.
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