After my girls were born I was out of the work force for quite a while. It just didn’t make financial sense for me to work and pay for 3 daycare spots. I wouldn’t have a paycheck when all was said and done. Then their special needs started making themselves known and it was all said and done for quite a while.
When hubby and I decided that it was time for me to get back into working, I had to work on my resume. Between that, and actually filling out applications, a disturbing pattern began to emerge.
I had missing time in my jobs.
I knew I never went without employment until the girls…but how could I be missing a year?
I sit there over and over running the dates…
“2001-2002 I was with the bank, yes. That’s right. Then in 2002 I did the bookkeeping thing for the shop for…oh, I don’t know. Was it a year? I think so. Okay. That takes me to 2003…but then. What? I didn’t start back with the bank until 2004. What in the world did I do in the interim? Did I work at the shop longer? NO…No. I know I didn’t.”
A full year that I couldn’t not remember for the life of me. I thought maybe I had the dates of the bank and the shop wrong, but I knew I didn’t because I was working at the shop when I got married.
I mean, seriously.
What happened during that year?
To this day this still happens. I don’t have to fill out that far back on resumes and applications, but as I fill them out, I think back to this blank space of time and wonder.
Every once in a while, like right now, it’ll hit me and I’ll remember EXACTLY what I was doing in that time. I’ll be in shock that I could forget such an esteemed position in my career trajectory and then…a few days, or weeks, down the line I’ll forget again.
So now…while I’m remembering, do you want to know?
Well, I’m gonna tell you either way.
For a year I held the esteemed position of Assistant Manager at a Credit Union Service Center. We performed transactions for most of the area credit unions.
ASSISTANT MANAGER in finance/banking. That’s no small potatoes.
And I constantly forget it ever happened.
A year of my career.
Gone.
So I’m glad you know, because maybe next time you can remind me when I forget again.
It’s gonna happen.
Probably before this even posts.
Ugh, I do that! Especially when I have to fill out information on my artist CV, because I don’t keep track like I should. Then I have the “oh, wow, yeah! I DID do that, didn’t I? HA!” Moment… but I couldn’t tell you what one of those are right now, because they’re MIA. It’s probably good you wrote it down, now. 🙂