Dreams do come true! {New Job}

I've been hinting here and there that something BIG has happened! And by big, I mean really, really big. This girl is the newest employee of Chicken Soup for the Soul! Yup, the books, of which I've been published in two and a third coming this fall. I grew up reading the books, and since I was published back in 2010, all I've wanted to do was work there. Something in my gut and my heart pulled me towards this company.

I've always kept it quiet on my blog about where I work. I think partially was because I wanted to keep my work identity and my blog identity separate, which now seems silly considering I don't change who I am when I'm in the office versus out of the office. But another part of me realized, when I was interviewing for and accepting my new job, that I finally feel extremely proud of where I'll be working. It's not that I wasn't proud of my two previous jobs because I still worked hard and believed in the companies, but I finally feel like this is who I am. This is where I want to be. This is where I am meant to be. 

While I was on the phone with my dad after I had accepted the job, he made a comment saying how "not many people know what they want to do at your age, let alone are working in their dream industry. Now you will be, and you're only 24!"

To think that I'm going to be living a dream (because I've been wanting to work at this company for so long) seems almost too good to be true. But as my new boss says, "you've had a lot of life experience for someone your age." So I think with that life experience and putting good energy into the world, dreams can become reality a lot sooner than you might have thought. And as Chelsea said, good things do come to those who wait.