What The New Day Brings
Friday things totally flipped for me.
This past Friday I was still on an awesome high from turning in the $27.5MM grant application for the biorefinery company the night before. I have been living and breathing that grant for months now. I can't tell ya how good to have that completely done with six days to spare and I thought that I might have a couple of days to catch my breath. Well it all changed. I was in my normal rotation of Thurs/Fri back at the private equity firm expecting to get ready for the next grant for the compressed air energy storage company that is building its first asset in OH, when I had a planned tag up with the VP that I work with the most. There was no bad news....just different news.
Turns out the next grant has come out and it is due end of August. They are pulling me from the biorefinery company entirely back to the fund. Full court press from here on to have this company apply for funding. I have a leg up in that I have been through this and also in that they have hired somebody to help me out. We can certainly get this done on a short fuse with the man power being thrown at it.
I guess the thing that really threw me is being pulled from the other company. I have grown close to those guys as well as the project so that makes it tough to leave. I am not really sure if I will go back their either as some of the feedback seems to indicate that although they needed my skills for that project, I am probably not a long term fit. One door closes, another door opens.
So much for summer being a laid back time but that is more than fine if this is what I have to do. The alternative of where I was a year ago is still really fresh in my mind.
This past Friday I was still on an awesome high from turning in the $27.5MM grant application for the biorefinery company the night before. I have been living and breathing that grant for months now. I can't tell ya how good to have that completely done with six days to spare and I thought that I might have a couple of days to catch my breath. Well it all changed. I was in my normal rotation of Thurs/Fri back at the private equity firm expecting to get ready for the next grant for the compressed air energy storage company that is building its first asset in OH, when I had a planned tag up with the VP that I work with the most. There was no bad news....just different news.
Turns out the next grant has come out and it is due end of August. They are pulling me from the biorefinery company entirely back to the fund. Full court press from here on to have this company apply for funding. I have a leg up in that I have been through this and also in that they have hired somebody to help me out. We can certainly get this done on a short fuse with the man power being thrown at it.
I guess the thing that really threw me is being pulled from the other company. I have grown close to those guys as well as the project so that makes it tough to leave. I am not really sure if I will go back their either as some of the feedback seems to indicate that although they needed my skills for that project, I am probably not a long term fit. One door closes, another door opens.
So much for summer being a laid back time but that is more than fine if this is what I have to do. The alternative of where I was a year ago is still really fresh in my mind.
posted by Booster MPS at
10:23 PM
4 Comments:
yea.
last year will make you appreciate every thing about every year from now on i do believe.
*hug*
...totally happy things have turned around for you. Positive thinking, and many, many, MANY prayers...
You are a good, kind heart. You deserve to be blessed.
What he said / she said.
Can't wait to hear the details. ;-)
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