THe Harting Family

THe Harting Family

Saturday, January 7, 2012

New Job...New Adventure...

Hello blog friends!!
Boy oh boy how things have changed in the last month. First off, it’s been an amazing time. The holidays were amazing, our son was home, my husband was home and we did absolutely nothing! Part of the reason was because I started a new job!!!! Yes, on Dec 15th I started my first day as our battalions Family Readiness Officer. My dream job, a job I never thought would happen since it is a pretty elusive job too most. Not because there aren’t a lot of super candidates, well yes, that is part of it, but it’s just really hard to get a foot in the door. About a year and a half ago I thought maybe one way to actually do that was to volunteer to be our battalions Family Readiness Advisor, and I think it helped a great deal. I was able to see the inner workings of the job I may have missed had I not. Long story short, when our FRO (who I loved and was an amazing mentor) was served with orders via her husband I finally got the chance I was hoping for.
I have now been in the job for about 3 weeks. Luckily over the holidays I was afforded a lot of time to try to figure things out, feel my way around the office and try organize. Needless to say I was left an immaculate office so it didn’t take long to get all my ducks in a row.
So now the work starts. Hubs is leaving for a month for some Senior PME at Quantico and even though I hate he is leaving it will give me time to set up a cot in my office and get to work! Lots of training and lots of communication and hopefully I will be the type of FRO our amazing families deserve. Wish my luck everyone.....I am super excited!

5 comments:

Skinnie Piggie said...

Congratulations!! I think you'll be a great FRO!

Paula said...

Congratulations! You will be fabulous at this. I know, as an FRG advisor myself, that the FRO (or as we call them, FRSA) is SOOO important.

TheAlbrechtSquad said...

I am so happy for you! I know you'll be fabulous!

ines said...

G'luck...you deserve it!!! :)

USMCWIFE said...

Thank you ladies. Your wishes mean a lot to me! I think you are all amazing milspouses so it's extra nice coming from you!