Strange occurrences

This morning, in the car on my way to work, I find myself visualising doing another job, a job that I applied for this week. It feels great. I’m quite excited. I have one interview next week and possibly another one the week after that. Both jobs I think I’d really enjoy.

I’m thinking that once I handed in my notice I want to thank one particular person in the organisation for boosting my confidence when no one else did. She is not part of my team and has no reason to be nice to me but has given me more praise and positive feedback than anyone since I worked in that place.

Strangely I bump into her at lunchtime and again, she’s telling me how amazing she thinks I am. I’m not going to go into what else she tells me, which is what my manager had said when she mentioned me positively at a senior meeting. I just take it as a sign that I’m totally right in taking my skills somewhere where they’re valued.

Later another person, also not from my team but somewhat involved with what I do, also gives me lots of positive feedback regarding a presentation I recently did. She adds that she’s sure my manager (who was also at that presentation but had nothing nice to say) also liked it. How kind. She obviously picked up that praise is a foreign language in my team.

It’s strange that all this happens today when my mind finally settles on the decision to leave this dysfunctional team sooner rather than later. It’s as if everything conspires to tell me that I’m totally on the right track and deserve better.

Well guess what? I got the message.