Be Hungry...

*This past week has been very interesting and much different than my typical week. I backed off on the running, celebrated ole #27 and had a very intense interview situation.

*Running: I had a couple of questionable runs and lost a bit of weight drastically for some reason so I decided to back off this entire week. I continued my workouts and long run as usual but just notched down the "base" runs a few miles and hoped that I would get some of that bounce back. I've been hitting mid-70s and took it down to 51 this week. I'll admit that I felt much fresher for my workouts but my long run yesterday still felt like trash. No real goals still for at least another month or so, so just cruising along for now. I think that I may need to break out the compression socks again. Not the $30-$70 oxy socks but the $14 I bought these at Walgreens because I'm 85 years old compression socks. They make me feel like a kid again.

*When I turned 26, someone told me that their 26th year was their most challenging. So far, I concur.

*Interview: Last week a position with the new PNC was posted on our job board. It was still in Chicago and is the Director of Client and Community Relations. This also includes Marketing, Charitable, Media and will serve as the Chief of Staff to our State President. The position was posted with a VERY short timeline and I had decided to through my name in the bucket with no expectations. I thought maybe my name would show up and they would send me one of those emails "You obviously are an amazing person and have exceptional qualifications BUT....." At least I would have known I didn't miss an opportunity.

On Monday, an interview was set up with the State President and our HR executive here in Chicago. I found out that the Cleveland position was accepted by a very high level executive and I also knew some of the other candidates that had applied for the Chicago position. Of these people they all had a good 10-15 years experience on me. Good times...huh? So, obviously I was pretty nervous about the situation and how the conversations were going to go. Through several conversations with the good people in Cleveland, Milwaukee and Lexington, I convinced myself that it was a great opportunity to sit down with our State President and talk about what I bring to the organization, get some face time and show that I'm a team player, I want to advance and I want to learn this bank. My uncle sent me a very short email but it said something that I think was very important. "Be Hungry." And, you know what. I am hungry. Hungry for a lot of things. And growing in this company and becoming a leader, a go-getter and an expert is something that I am very hungry for.

This story is just dying for me to tell you that I got this position.That is not the case, but that is fine. I did have two great conversations with these executives and who knows where that will go. But at least now they know that I am hungry.