It's finally all paying off.

Last June I completed my MBA program. It gave me a nice decoration for the wall, once I bought a decent frame. My undergrad degree is in Information Systems, and my dual course concentration in the MBA program was IS and e-commerce.

I didn't get a full-time job until January. The only job that I was offered is on the Bank Services team at Fidelity, making somewhere between $25K-$30K per year (I don't know what the exact amount is, but I doubt it's over $27K). This is after working for Fidelity for over five years.

Fast-forward to May 10. Eleven months after I got my MBA. My phone rings, and it is an HR rep on the other end. She tells me a decision has been made by the hiring manager for the job I interviewed for a week ago. They are offering me the job.

I'm finally starting to reap the benefits of all of the schooling and working a position I'm not interested in just to stay with the company. My new job is as a Business Analyst, making just over $40K/year, on a team that has a lot of growth potential. I will be the only Business Analyst (on the IS side of things) in the entire department I'm moving to.

Every time I've interviewed for a position before, I've been told that I was at least in the top 3 candidates. The last job I applied for I was second, right behind the guy that left the job I just got. Usually, someone with 5-10 years of actual job experience has gotten the job rather than me, because IT experience outside of your job is apparently worthless. The icing on the cake is that I was hired for this instead of candidates with more experience - both my current manager and my new manager have agreed that I have a strong potential to lead an IT team at our company in the next few years.

I am so excited I could soil myself. But I will refrain.