New Hire

Turns out after a lot of consideration I ended up taking Bill's advice from my 7/29/08 post about looking for new employees and offered the position to the person with the least amount of standard education. In the end I felt like she was the person who was the most excited about the opportunity and her work history proved that she had worked hard - very hard - in jobs that weren't always the most intellectually exciting so I'm trusting that she'll show up day in and day out and work hard. My fear, right or not, with the other people I interviewed was that they'd leave me as soon as they found a higher paying part-time job and I'm really looking for someone who was willing to commit for a certain amount of time. Unfortunately she can't start for another week or so but that's because she's finishing up a contract with another employer and I do respect the fact that she's seeing out her time there as promised as it leads me to believe she'll do the same for me. I'm trusting my gut on this one and while it has proved me wrong in the past I do think I made the right decision.

However, I am thinking of having another position open up because I'm just busier then ever and am feeling really behind leading into these tradeshows. So I may be running the whole new employee search again in the near future. Being this busy is a really good problem to have but I'm feeling wound incredibly tight right now. So I'm going to go to a Cross Fit (http://www.crossfit.com/) class tonight and hope that by throwing a kettle ball around for an hour or so it will help me chill out a little bit.