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The Transition: A Positive Post
Yayyyy!#nolisp #ilikewomen
As many of you have probably noticed, I’ve been low key for the last couple weeks. Like Seattle, I’ve also found a new job in New York City. I started this past Monday and things have been crazy with the transition. I’ve had very little time to reply to emails, text messages, and/or tweets. I’m back and forth between Boston and NY getting my stuff together. And once this process is done later this month, I’m off to California for a friend’s wedding. Once I get back from California, it’s time to get ready for the Modern Day Matchmaker Live in NYC on June 3rd. Following that, it’s the last leg of preparation before I take a critical career certification exam at the end of the month. I’ve been so stressed out that I’ve managed to chew through my mouth guard while sleeping (Gotta protect my teeth.) Once again, it’s been crazy.
The difference with this stress compared to the stress I’ve mentioned in the past is that it’s ultimately related to positive life occurrences. There’s no more ambiguity and worry about where I’ll be in the next 6 months to a year and if I’ll ever be able to complete the career transition I’ve been looking to make for some time now. Though I’m still on a budget, I don’t have to worry anymore about fluctuating income and how much more money I’m going to have to pull from my ridiculously low interest rate ING savings account. I’m transitioning from a state of worry to a state of excitement and anticipation. I’ll probably chew through 2 more mouth guards before it’s over, but I’m fine with that given that I’ve accomplished one of my major short-term career goals. It’s a feeling that I haven’t had in a long time and it’s something that I hope everybody, regardless of current circumstance, gets to experience sooner rather than later.
I can’t say too much about what I do now, but I can tell you that I work in the non-profit sector doing what I consider to be a dream gig. And though it’s early in the work game at the new job, I wake up in the morning and I’m excited to get to the office. I also finally feel as if I’m in a position where my contributions on a daily basis have an impact on the world and not just a company’s profit-loss statement. That’s said with the utmost seriousness and the least amount of disdain.
Looking back over the last 2+ years that I spent with my new former employer, I’ve learned a lot about myself and picked up skills that I’ll use in my new role and for the rest of my life. I also worked with some of the greatest and most supportive people I’ve ever met. To let people know, including your boss, where you’re going for a new job and to have them tell you how successful you’ll be and how much of an honor it was to work with you is a simultaneously humbling and tear-dropping emotional experience. There are few things greater than being respected and admired for who you are as a person as opposed to what dollar figure you contributed to the bottom line or what false image you portrayed to get by day-to-day.
So as I continue to be spotty in my appearances online, bare with me as I’m making some very positive transitions and progress in the real world. Hopefully this post has inspired, motivated, and/or gave hope to some of you. Hard work definitely pays off even when you think nobody is looking. So about today…
What are you striving toward nowadays? What are your short term milestones? Have you had any recent successes that you haven’t had a chance to talk about? Anything? C’mon. You gotta have something positive going on!
Feeling Talented,
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Great post, Slim! I’m happy for you (no, ‘and I’mma let you finish’).
I’m still happily trippin’ over how virtually pain-free my root canal today was so that’s my positivity for today. Trust, I was dying with anxiety beforehand but, it seriously wasn’t that bad. I love my dentist.
I’m forever strivin’ toward my side-hustle which is screenwriting. While not my dream job, I’m thankful for my day-job for keeping a nice roof over my head and food in my tummy and it gives me time to do screenwriting when I get home (glad I have a leave-the-work-at-home type of job…lol).
Sidenote: To use The Champ’s (from VSB fame) “gay percentage scale”, this post’s picture is 72% gay. Or ghey. Your choice.
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Slim Jackson Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 12:26 am
I actually agree with that percentage. The picture looks nothing like me or my avatar so I’m fine with that.lol.
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Cheekie Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
That’s great. ‘Cuz he look like he should be a stand-in for Billy Elliot.
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Cheekie Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 8:24 am
ETA: *sigh* I meant “leave-work-at-work”. #effatypo
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Way to go. I am working on my goals. The key is never giving up
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this is great.. and there’s gonna be WAYY more cheese involved int his comment, so bear with me..
i’m mad at cheeckie for getting her root canal done.. while i have one that’s kickin my *ss.. it hurts when i eat, and i ABHOR anything that gets in the way of me and food.. “yes, even my own teeth..”
part deux.. there isn’t a big enough font for the congratulations that i wanna give you.. so i’m just gonna say “congrats.. and iknow it’s GREAT feeling like you’re doing something fruitful with your life.. not all of us get to make an impact on our surroundings..” it does make the soul rest a little easier.. to actually be adding something of value.. instead of just taking..
okay.. cheesy statement part trois..
for the longest time, i’ve wanted to be a writer.. i’ve held off, somehow feeling like i couldn’t be taken seriously because i haven’t finished my degree.. and never wanting to let anyone read it and open myself up to criticism that way.. not only that, but since it also is a marketing game of sorts, then i was bound for failure.. one day i asked my friend “what’s some of those black blogs you’re always talkin about” and several names were given in response.. this site being one of them.. and it’s like the moment where you realize you’ve been stuck in the matrix.. it’s like your eyes have ben opened, and things can never go back to being the same way again.. a bit dramatic, i know.. but that truly is the case..
in true Nick fashion.. i’m comin on the scene all late.. BUT when i read the blogs i get motivated to put my ish out there.. to be dissected, maybe even p*ssed on..but still.. writing is the only thing that has ever made sense to me.. and i thank you guys for the motivation and sh*t..
alright.. nuff a dat!! back to our regularly scheduled programming..
congratulations, Slim…
“D*MN that was long”…… that’s what she said…
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Cheekie Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 8:30 am
“i’m mad at cheeckie for getting her root canal done.. while i have one that’s kickin my *ss.. it hurts when i eat, and i ABHOR anything that gets in the way of me and food.. “yes, even my own teeth..””
O_O Uh-oh! So sorry to read that, Nick? Did you get one on your back tooth? Might explain why mine (front bottom tooth) was easier. I hear it’s less intensive since a front tooth has one canal (sometimes two) while a back tooth can have 3 or 4. Still, I was overly surprised how NOT traumatic it was.
As for writing, I’m giving you “the push” like a mofo!! I’m a writer (working on the getting paid for it part) and the number one thing you have to learn is you HAVE to be open for criticism. Which, yeah, is the hardest part. And frankly, blogs is an easier way to develop that thicker skin because the contact with criticism ain’t much face-to-face…most of it is over the internets. I truly hope you start to write because just from your comments I’d love to read your “voice”. You know you at least have a supporter in me! And I bet a lot of the other 3Ways fam can say the same! It’s why “coming on the scene all late” can be an advantage; you’ve already established a fan base by commenting on other blogs and the blogosphere knows your name.
Much luck to ya, girl!!
(this comment screamed ya-ya sisterhood with the sisterly support and all…lol)
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Kudos darling!
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Congrats on the new job!! Can I borrow 20 dollars? lol j/k #nofelicia
I’m happy I made it through my first year of grad school. I might’ve complained threw the process but I’m actually excited for next year.
I’m also pumped about exploring my career choices. I’ve always thought molecular genetics was exciting but what I’m doing now makes me want to fistpump to work everyday.
Anyway congrats on the new job and I wish you all the best.
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Please Excuse Your Significant Other Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 9:32 am
LMAO @ “#nofelicia”
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Congrats! Also, thank for writing something so positive, I kinda needed it.
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this is one happy a$$ negro..
glad i dont have to help him move… my back hurts. call guns&butta.. im in vegas baby!
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Cheekie Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 8:30 am
Win us some e-money honey!
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CHeeKZ Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
No prob Hunny.
Ill try to not bring back any e-STDs.
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Cheekie Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
Much obliged.
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sanen85 Reply:
May 14th, 2010 at 2:18 am
You sure be making the rounds, huh CHeeKZy? LOL
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Guns & Butter Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 9:25 am
I hate you cheekz. I hope you losing money cause you don’t know how to gamble and all the old timers at the blackjack table get mad at you.
Slim, I’ma help you move cause I’m a good friend. not a F.A.A.F. like cheekz
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CHeeKZ Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 11:56 am
Blackjack?
No way… strickly craps (Bs Up), Roulette (always bet on Black), and War (yeah that’s right. You can making a killing off of I-Declare-War)
putting the money in CHeeKZ Money since 1997.
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Guns & Butter Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 1:51 pm
always bet on black.
and yeah.. casino i-declare-war is crazy.. i remember @ foxwoods i bet $150 dollars and the dealer dealt me a 3. I was soooo depressed, until he dealt himself a 2!!! The whole casino went crazy… i was running around giving people high fives but then gathered myself took my money and get the hell up outta there!
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nyhoop Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 9:52 am
good seeing you this past weekend Cheekz!
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Seattle Washington Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 11:22 am
Co-sign.
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CHeeKZ Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 11:59 am
NYH was a shock to see sweetheart.
Seattle.. you have no excuse. I should see you more often, atleast a percentage of the time I see Slim. Now that you are back in NYC we have to over drink and sexual assault women together.
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Please Excuse Your Significant Other Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 10:08 am
I always feel that I’m at all these events w/ all these bloggers and folks that i “know” off the intranets and I never meet em
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Guns & Butter Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 10:57 am
Same thing happens to me. I blame on the fact that internets don’t be lookin’ like they avatars and twitter pics. At least to me they don’t.. i’m liable to walk right by peeps i was just tweetin.
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Please Excuse Your Significant Other Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 11:21 am
O that was you?! Makes sense now.
The level of white boy wasted I was on (all for free might i add) was unprecedented.
Somehow I mushed a chick in the head (yea, i said head b/c it wasnt her face. I palmed her head and threw her). I still feel bad about it though.
What up fam?
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Seattle Washington Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 11:21 am
My dude, I’m pretty sure I said what up to you @ Sowhatiff’s party.
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Please Excuse Your Significant Other Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 11:23 am
O that was you?! Makes sense now.
The level of white boy wasted I was on (all for free might i add) was unprecedented. SMH @ myself
Somehow I mushed a chick in the head (yea, i said head b/c it wasnt her face. I palmed her head and threw her). I still feel bad about it though.
What up fam?
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Seattle Washington Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 11:28 am
It’s all good. I thought you were wasted – you looked at me like there were three of me standing in front of you.
Ahh, I know of the yamp (yes yamp) that you’re talking about. Not to say she deserved it, but the way she was barking at men it was bound to happen. She almost got her mans stomped out by my boys earlier in the night.
Good to meet you though son! Lol. You’ll catch me in the city a lil more often now. Let’s grab a beer or 4.
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CHeeKZ Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
wait a minute.. that fight right before the DJ took it to old skool music?!?!? That was yall?
The things you don’t see from VIP.
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Please Excuse Your Significant Other Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
I remember the fight b/c somehow I grabbed some dude and “broke up the fight”. I’d had nothing to do w/ the altercation though
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Miss Jenkins Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Nah, that fight wasn’t because of Peyso. He almost caused one though. lol. What a great night!
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CHeeKZ Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
very good music.
really short shirts.
nice price drinks…
would have been a classic..IF YOU HAD PUT ME ON YOUR GUESTLIST!
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Congrats!!!
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Congrats on the new job Slim! This post served as motivation for me because I am in the market for a new job/career change. Hopefully, I’ll find something soon but until then I’ll have to live vicariously through you.
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Yay for Slim’s new gig!! I am in thep process of applying to grad school, all I have to do is get the recommendation letters completed, pay my fee, then start classes in the fall. I’m tired of working and not going forward.
I’m doin’ me right now, man.
Congrats on the upward move, sir!
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Congrats to the guuuuu bruhz. And welcome back to NYC. Making big moves and it must feel nice to wake up and want to go to work.
I’m excited about law school in August. I know its gonna be hard but being that I was such an underachiever in college, I’m excited to go to school and study and grind in the library. I feel like all that grinding, builds character. #idontevenseewhatididthere Also, I’m excited about going to school sans the burden of playing football. I just wanna be a student. I’m excited about the new crib in Brooklyn. I dont care if its literally on the same block as Marcy Projects, my sh!+ is nice lol
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intellectual hedonist Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
congratulations on law school
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Congrats Slim!! And since I don’t believe I commented on Seattle’s post last week, congrats Seattle!! I love to see young black brothers doing the damn thing! lol.
I have some big moves in the making, as in moving out of the country moves. Took me a while to get here, but I know where I need to be, and anything less
would be uncivilizedwould be unacceptable.And congrats Miss Jenkins on your graduation. You did graduate right? Oh well, congratulations anyway. And congrats to all of the law school/med school/b-school/grad school bound people, as well as congrats to everyone currently in school for making it through this academic year.
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N.I.A.naturally Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 9:53 am
Ooh, I forgot. I’m moving to a new place in Raleigh. Shared a crib with my sister, saved some money, and now my new place has 2 bedrooms, hardwood floors, a beautiful balcony, in a nice neighborhood. It’s a little further away from downtown, but I like living in the ‘burbs.
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Miss Jenkins Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
lol…I have one more year til graduation. With the way this school year dragged on, it felt like I did. Thanks for the congrats though
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i’m happy things are going well for you, you deserve it. I’m pissed i’m the only one left in this place aside from the WB Mason guy, recylcing man and cleaning man. But i’ll be aight.\
good luck to you fam!
Peace,
General Nat Turner
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Congratulations again Mr. Jackson, lol. We must do lunch when you are settled!
I’m working on some moves, but they are taking longer than expected. I live in the “now” generation, so I hate waiting to see results. I must work on my patience and remember that things will happen. I just have to keep at it…
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Salute sir Slim!
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Yay! Congrats Slim. Maybe i’ll spot those little eyes on the train lol
Reading this post has renewed my zeal to begin studying for the LSAT.
I was all about going for an MA in Islamic studies to stall and B-S a little bit longer and I got in to U of AZ (LOL now) and wait listed for Columbia. The scholarships were not there and I can’t waste unnecessary $ on an MA and my ultimate goal is a JD.
And this post lets me know jobs are out there =) Since I quit the legal assistant job #swindle. I’ve been temping and have kind of withdrawn but I think i’m back.
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Congrats homie. Like I said before, be grateful because this many Black men don’t win at the same time in the same vicinity very often. Especially in Massachusetts. You know someone called their Senator to raise hell.
…Black Unicorns!
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Sweetness Reply:
May 14th, 2010 at 12:43 am
“Like I said before, be grateful because this many Black men don’t win at the same time in the same vicinity very often. Especially in Massachusetts.” <—-Now if THAT aint the TRUTH
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I’m not impressed.
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Satya Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
lol dam! way to rain on a parade
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Seattle Washington Reply:
May 13th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
That’s nothing…
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Slim,
This hits me SO close to home…I’m going through the exact same thing. I’m leaving the relative comfort of my job to move closer to home and pursue my dream of writing. Its good to know that I could walk away with dignity. Follow your dreams!
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Congrats everybody! I’m just happy to have made it through my first year of law school. I’m also happy to have an internship this summer since a lot of my classmates don’t have 1.
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Congrats Slim, Im sure we will run into each other as much as I socialize in the city (as if I didnt live 3 hours away) though Peyso and I have been in proximity to one another and we have yet to meet. Congrats!
Waiting for my time. But I am learning lessons and leaving a mark as I wait. I know I am blessed.
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Congratulations to you, Slim!
May God bless you to continuously prosper and
make sure you take some time to get the proper amount of rest.
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I recently took a job in Costa Rica. One of the best decisions I’ve made. Change is really refrshing.
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Congrats!!! I love when my young brothers and sisters are doing well and making a come up. I am also in a place of transition. I just recently finished graduate school myself. I still live in the city where I recieved my undergraduate degree. Now I am trying to decide where I want to take my next step (apartment lease up at end of June). If I get a job in Raleigh before then I will move there. If I don’t have a job by then to Charleston, I come for a year.
I hate transitions!! Like someone said I am in the “Now” generation. I hate waiting for things to happen. Oh well…
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Well goodness, this post made me hopeful for my own situation.
I’m really proud of you and happy for you…weird since I don’t even know you. lol
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“There are few things greater than being respected and admired for who you are as a person as opposed to what dollar figure you contributed to the bottom line or what false image you portrayed to get by day-to-day.” <—– That statement right there…TOUGH!!
Happy for your positive developments!!
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