This year started off with a big change! Jared got a new job! Just a few months shy of working at Northern Acreage for two years, Jared took a parts job at Babine Truck and Equipment. This came as quite a sudden change, but so far a very good one! Jared seems to have more energy and more time to spend with us with the new schedule and currently less energy draining job.
I would like to share the story of how Jared came upon this job as again it is too providential not to share. Three weeks ago, on a Monday, one of Jared's days off, his curiosity got the better of him and he went to Prairie Coast to get some more details on the service management job they had available there, on the way there he realized that he didn't really like the commute and once he got there the parts guy he was hoping to use as a connect was away sick and he learned that management had been changed up since he last applied two years ago.
This is where I think the providential side of things really hit me, Jared took a totally different way home, remembered that Babine was in that area (as this was another place he applied at before we moved up), and somewhere in the back of his head knew that they were hiring. Jared spent the next hour and a half chatting with John Bandstra and some of the parts guys and left there with a job shadow booked for the next Monday and a request from John for a few more references.
The following Friday, even before the job shadow date, Jared had a job offer in his inbox. Which we found out later had followed pretty quickly after John had talked to Jared's references, Uncle Rick and the deputy chief of the Pineview volunteer fire department.
Saturday Jared gave Alan, his boss, a heads up about the job shadow and on Monday after the job shadow gave his official two weeks notice to Northern Acreage. This was all pretty sad and hard, Jared liked Northern Acreage and felt quite loyal to Alan for giving him a good start in PG, but it was time to move on to a job that had the potential to be more career based and more income potential as well. Though it was hard to say goodbye to Northern Acreage Jared did learn that Alan had a lot of dreams for him that didn't really match up with his own.
We did our best to leave Northern Acreage on good terms and keep a good relationship there as we will still be regular customers. I made a a gift basket for them which I must say turned our pretty well! and I surprised myself with how much fun I had putting it together.
The transition between the jobs so far has gone very smoothly! Jared has started a bunch of training courses on Volvo and Mack parts and has been doing lots of the receiving work, occasionally he has been tasked with a few "rabbit hole" parts to find, and has been successful and enjoyed it. Jared's new schedule is still up in the air a bit, but this week he will be working Monday-Friday from 8-4:30. With the new schedule we don't see much of Jared in the mornings, but we are all enjoying Jared being home well before dinner! Currently we all seem to be thriving of the new schedule, we have yet to find out if it is just adrenaline or just a more sustainable routine, I'm really hoping for the latter :)
