Praise!!!

Maybe I'm insecure or needy or something, but for the past few weeks I've been looking for some sort of validation that I'm doing OK at my new job.  Since it's all so new to me, I haven't gotten a ton of guidance, and there seems to be an almost insurmountable mountain of work I was feeling nervous about whether or not I was living up to expectations.  One of the big projects I've been working on is reviewing this ginormous stacks of proposals.  Today I headed up a meeting to go over the proposals and I presented my review to the group and... my boss was super impressed!!!  After we went over everything he said, "Wow, you've really done a great job with this Amanda".  I said, "thank you" and he said, "No, no... really, you've done a really great job!"  Then, about an hour later he came into my office to ask a question and told me again how happy he was with the work I had done!!!  Granted, this whole proposal thing is only one piece of all the work I'm responsible for, but I'll celebrate any little victory I can!

As an interesting side note, I have recently received a lot of calls and emails from other companies in response to the millions of resumes I had sent out.  Despite the complaints I might make about feeling overwhelmed at Dendreon, I am still super excited about the position and I'm interested in seeing what I can learn from it and where it might take me so I'm gonna stick with it for awhile, but it's nice to know that if the Dendreon thing hadn't worked out that other opportunities would've come along :)