my future!

On Wednesday, I got great news! So as you all may or may not know, I'm graduating soon and am taking time off to work. My plans post-grad were to do a summer internship with Change to Win, organizing warehouse workers in the Inland Empire. However, this was not my ideal plan. My ideal plan all along was that I could stay in LA and work for NDLON, the org that I've been with for quite some time. Well Chris, Marco and John have all been pushing for me to work there and I guess they finally got through to Pablo, the executive director, because today he sat me down and asked me that if I were offered a full-time position, would I forfeit my summer internship and OF COURSE I WOULD! This is what I've wanted to do all along! My main job would be to organize the NDLON National Convention and then after that's done with and if I still wanted to stay, they'd create a position for me (which Pablo said would probably be that of an organizer because he knows that's what I really want to do). I AM SO EXCITED!!!! He told me to think about it and we'd talk next week, but today I saw him again and I accepted! I still don't know how much I'd be making because John will be laying that out next week, but Pablo assured me that the pay would not be bad and I'll have full benefits.

The only downer is that I am moving out of my apartment by the end of June, we are breaking the lease early since my roommates will be studying abroad. It just seems easier to move out altogether than subletting. Originally, I was moving out so I could move to the Inland Empire for the internship, but now I am just going to move back home for a while, so that's why I'm really hoping I can get settled well enough at NDLON and get my own place soon enough!