Week One: Employed and Enthralled!

So, all I have to say is wow.

This has been one of the craziest and most amazing weeks in my life. I can honestly say I have never felt so at home, so at peace, or so certain of myself. Part of the plan was to try and get a job with MAC, but that was going to require I wander around with my resume to every MAC location till I found one that was hiring.... so I applied at multiple cosmetics locations before I got here. My second day, I had a interview with Macy's Heralds Square for a cosmetics position. After they saw that I had MAC experience, they sent me downstairs to meet with the MAC management team. I felt really good about the interview and they asked me to come back on Friday in the morning for a makeup application. It went really well, and Ellie, the retail manager of the whole location told me that, provided my references checked out, she wanted to hire me on the spot.

Well, none of my references called her back, but she called me back in, and hired me anyways. I am now employed, working at MAC and incredibly excited!! (Though I have to go through Macy's register training first and that's a horrible pain. But.. it's just a couple days!!)

It's funny how much of this has felt like it was just meant to be.

Things that fell in my lap:

I wanted to work for MAC, interviewed with Macy's, and ended up with MAC
The position they hired me for -- opened the day I got to New York
They couldn't put me into Macy's training till the 23rd.... ouch. They called me last night and bumped my training up today.

It just feels like this is my time here and my time in general. I can't wait to solidify the woman I can feel myself becoming and find what my roommates call "my new york".

And now it's late and I'm off to bed. :)

PS. I'm so happy here.