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…from my current role to a much lighter role in the same organisation. I had decided to keep away any work related stuff from this blog. However, besides being work related, this move brings a totally different dimension to my career. I will move to a different division in the same company. This new role will require lesser time at the workplace which simply translates to more time with Little V. And that’s what I have been craving for. I am a finance background person and we thrive on deadlines, month ends, quarter ends and year end financial data and reporting. This new role won’t have any such period end commitments and will offer (hopefully) one day in the week as work from home and a more morning (8ish to 4ish) kind of a day. At this moment this opportunity sounds so perfect, like everything after this will be just alright. This reminds me of  a discussion I had with my director regarding the new role and how he wanted me to think it all over and I remember him saying  – any move, any position (that needs less time) will need compromise at some level, more or less, it won’t match up for the time you could be at home full time. So they wanted me to figure out if I would be happier with something lighter or would rather give it all up. His words did ring a bell, but I am hoping fewer work hours in a week, will work perfectly for me.

I was so thrilled during the run up to fetching this position, it seemed like the be all and end all of everything. Now that I have got it, I am already missing my current role and all the glamour it used to bring with it. My current division is the most sought after division at my office. And it makes me wonder if this is indeed the right thing for me. Afterall, I am leaving a glossy position for a more laid back working life. I can’t help but feel melancholic about this role change. I liked my work and I liked the glamour my role brought me, no matter how bad it got during the quarter or month ends. But on the whole I think, it will benefit Little V, who can have more of me and I can have more of him and that anything is worth this extra time we are now going to have together.  Now there is another letting go happening coz of the mommy bit of me. Being a mommy changes so many things about you…its never the same again! every day is a new day!