Never Burn Your Bridges

You know how your parents and other random people tell you this. Well, it's true. Don't do it. It's not worth it AND it will come back to haunt you.

I received a call the other day from a validation company, and they were asking if I was interested in changing jobs. I have so many different things going on that I figured I might as well talk to the people. I don't necessarily hate my job here, it's just very frustrating at times. I figured it can't hurt to look around. So, I talked to the lady and told her what I was good at, my strengths/weaknesses, blah blah. She told me that I would hear from someone in the validation department within a couple weeks if they were interested in talking to me.

Last week, the lady emailed me and told me that someone would be calling me. I ended up talking to a lady yesterday. She mentioned a man that I think I worked with at my first Validation job. I told her that the name sounded familiar, and if it's who I think it is, I worked with him at my first job. I said 'Oh, did he give me a good recommendation? If he did, then, yes, I know him.' The lady started laughing really hard. HA!!HA!! I laughed too, and told her that I think I did work with him, but there are a lot of older men in my profession, and I can't always remember all of them. She agreed that he is older, so I thought it could be the same guy.

Anyway, I got online a few minutes ago, and did a search on this guy, and come to find out I did work with him at my first job. How funny is that? He didn't even really know me, but I guess he recognized my name. Awesome. I don't know if I will get the job or even an offer, but today is a good day for being happy about not burning bridges.

I'm not really a fan of keeping strong bridges: weak, wooden ones are more my style, but so far so good.