Things were tough at my job, so it’s not like I just up and decided to quit, but sometimes you have to walk through the open door and into what ever the next portion of your life is. In this case I had barely stepped off the plane from Salt Lake City, lawyers from one of the hottest law offices in LA joined me just as I walked out of the secure area and started talking. It felt like a million miles a minute, but it turns out that someone who knew me and knew them had told them about me and they were curious if I wanted a job. This was somehow no joke, so I told them I would have my assistant call his assistant, but I had an appointment to be at right away.

I spent the whole day thinking about it after letting Jennifer know that I needed her to set up the interview. It seemed like a long shot, moving from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, but I knew it would be really good for me if I picked up the nerve to do it. It might even be the thing that changes my life. As it turns out, the interview was a success. He really liked me, I really liked him, and I liked the rest of the staff I had a chance to meet. It wasn’t just easy though, it was really easy. I told him part of my fear in moving to Los Angeles would be that I wouldn’t be able to find a place to live in the area, and I don’t really like to deal with traffic too much. He said he knew someone, and we figured out a time I would be able to see a little apartment down the road from the law offices .

I went back to meeting with my client again and anticipated seeing this apartment. If there was a place for me to live when I got to Los Angeles it would make me feel a lot better about making this change. It turns out when I was done and met the agent, it wasn’t such a little apartment. Actually it was a three bedroom two bathroom apartment and was so cheap that I felt like I couldn’t pass it up. I called back the law office and my boss and broke to everyone the news. That’s how I got to this place where I am about to move to Los Angeles.

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Office Space is my favorite flick of all time.  Everyone has had bad job before.  I had more than my share until I stumbled across my latest one.  I literally did stumbled too.  Popping out of a cab, I tripped over the New York Times, which was open to its classifieds.  My Jimmy Choo shoes speared the listing that I applied for later that day, unhappy as I was at the job I was at then.

My job now is nothing like Office Space, fortunately.  Though My boss does drag out his “yeahs,” his business skills have obviously been honed by years of great sales management training, he knows how to deal with people because he knows how to deal with customers.  With him, I no longer feel the need to take sick days for more important things, like sleep.  In my old job, despite working numerous hours of overtime, I never received the same kind of pay that others in the office did because of politicking.

Our performance reviews are great because we get evaluated by our peers and by our bosses too.  It also isn’t that uncomfortable, three on one meeting I had at my old job.  It reminds me more of the creative writing courses I took in college where we work shopped stories, except at my office, we work shop performances and ways of improving them.  It is a very professional environment, but there is also a strong sense of support among everyone in office, probably because we are on the smaller side of things.   We do have training seminar, a process that has helped strengthen the company.  Though I always enjoyed my field, the jobs I had did not always suit me for one reason or another.  But with the vibe of the place and the consistent opportunities for growth, I think I have found my favorite office space.

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