As I alluded to this morning, I have some news to share with you guys! I wanted to wait until I got the official call before I shared anything and since I heard the good news this afternoon, I feel comfortable letting you guys in on the latest development in my life.
Right after I got my personal training certification through NASM, I began searching for a fitness-related job in Ocala. Unfortunately there are a limited number of gyms in Ocala and therefore a limited number of jobs. (One day I accidentally typed Orlando into craigslist and thought I finally hit the job jackpot! Not the case.)
The jobs I found near me were still a solid 45-minute drive away, so when a personal training job finally opened up at a local gym within 20 minutes of my house, I was so excited.
I applied immediately and went in to talk with someone right away. The week before we left on our vacation, I had my first formal interview. Yesterday I had a follow-up interview with two more people and found myself getting more and more excited about possibly joining their team. We seem to share a similar fitness philosophy and they were extremely receptive to my desire to eventually transition into instructing group exercise classes when I have that certification and feel comfortable. (And we talked about BodyPump! I think I may even be able to lead the charge to bring that class to the gym which would be amazing.)
I go in on Monday to fill out the paperwork and do the whole drug test thang, but I should be starting at the gym very soon! I’m really looking forward to a new adventure and more human interaction. I’ve missed being around people every day and think this will be a great new challenge. I’m nervous and excited all at once.
So now that the news is out, let’s fly through the rest of the day, shall we?
Lunch
Leftovers for lunch!
Last night I made a giant batch of Easy Orange Chicken for dinner and reheated two drumsticks for lunch today after I arrived home from an afternoon Taste of Ocala meeting.
I served the drumsticks with a sweet, crisp apple and roasted broccoli and cauliflower that I tossed in olive oil and the leftover orange sauce.
Now I’m off to continue working away on a PowerPoint presentation. Fun stuff!
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Congratulations!!
CONGRATS GIRL! I remember when I got my first PT job, it was SUCH an amazing experience and I learned SO much! I hope one day you are able to branch off and have your own business but working under someone ROCKS you get to be apart of a team and learn ALOT about the industry! Sending you LOVE + MEMORIES! Love + Shine CourtStar
Congrats Julie!!!! You will be great!!! 🙂
That’s great news Julie! Congrats! I hope you get to teach BodyPump like you have always wanted to do. 🙂
YAY! That’s awesome Julie 🙂 Very exciting for you!
Wonderful news! It is such an amazing feeling to have the mutual excitement for a new job! I hope you enjoy and celebrate this feeling, it’s all your hard work paying off!
Congratulations! 🙂 I can’t wait to hear more about your new job!
Wow, congratulations! I work at a local gym, and your personality reminds me a lot of some of my favorite trainers. I’m sure that gym will be lucky to have you.
Congratulations!! My goal is to one day become a personal trainer/group fitness instructor, but first I need to sort my body out before I can work on other peoples!! HA!
Yay!!! Congrats! 🙂
congrats! how exciting!
Congrats! That’s so exciting!!
Congratulations!! Sounds like a perfect job! 🙂
Great news Julie… Congratulations… this gym is very lucky to be getting someone like you with so much passion is what you do… best of luck…love your blog!!!!!
Congratulations Julie! Great to see you finding other ways to help people get healthy since you are so passionate! Sending you good luck, although you don’t need it, you’re perfect for the job!
Congrats! That is so exciting! You seem like such a happy positive person you will be so well suited for personal training and group classes!
Congratualtions, you will love it! I am no longer personal training because I work full time and it became to much to be personal training in the evenings too. However, it is one of the most rewarding jobs I have ever had. Watching someone’s health and confidence grow is such a wonderful thing. It is life changing for a person to change their lifestyle for the better. My advice: Fitness and nutrition is a vast world and not a one size fits all. Be open to new things, take advice and always stay positive! 🙂 I wish you the best!
Congratulations, Julie!!!
Congratulations!! Just by reading your blog, I know you will do well as a trainer and group fitness instructor.
Congratulations!! I know personally, how difficult the job market is right now. It’s incredible that you have been able not only to find a job, but to find something that you want to do!
Congratulations!! That is a huge step. I wish you much success 🙂 Can’t wait to hear more.
That’s amazing! Congratulations. I’m sure you’d be tons of fun to BodyPump with. Looking forward to reading about your PT adventures.
Congratulations! So exciting 🙂
Congratulations Julie!!! Finding a job that you love with people who share the same passion is a rare commodity – have a great time on your new adventure!!!
Yay! Congrats! You will love being in the gym and around people who share the same interests as you. Do you plan on getting the BodyPump certification?
Congrats! That is awesome!
Congratulations!!! Personal training is an amazing career. It’s so rewarding helping others reach their health and fitness goals!
That is GREAT news!! Congrats and I know you will be great!!!
Congrats! This sounds like an amazing career move for you.
Congratulations! That is so awesome! I teach group fitness classes now and love it! I would love to get my person trainer certification!
CONGRATS Julie!!! 😀 Now if you bring BodyPump to your gym, you KNOW I’m going to have to make the drive to attend your class. I KNOW you will be the BEST BP teacher EVER! You are so full of energy- I love it!!!
Hey, congratulations! I have a good friend who is a personal trainer, and he makes a really nice living out of it, beats all of our Office lives 9-5, dealing with people is so much better.
Congrats! Good luck on your new adventure, interested to see how you like it.
Joining in the choir here to say a big congrats! That’s so exciting. If I lived any where remotely close to Ocala, I’d totally stop in to take your BP class (once it happens because I know it will). 😀
You might already know this but Group Power is a very similar class to Body Pump (I have taken both but teach Group Power, it’s a BTS program) but in case your gym is not already supporting Les Mills programs…just another option. Teaching group classes is hard work but so much fun, be prepared for a lot of “homework” learning tracks is very time consuming! Congrats on your new chapter, look forward to ou taking us readers along on the ride!
Congratulations! You’ll make an awesome personal trainer. I like to call PBF workouts my personal trainer, haha. Your workouts are my favorite to do at the gym! 🙂
You seem like a nice gal. Why in the world are you friends with Caitlin HTP?
Fabulous! Congrats:-D
Yay! Congratulations! That would be awesome if you could bring BODYPUMP to that gym!
Thats fantastic!! So excited to hear about this new journey!
Congrats Julie! This sounds like a giant step in the right direction!
Congrats Julie! That’s so exciting!
That is AWESOME!! Good luck girl! I would TOTALLY hire you to be my trainer! If you ever consider doing any on-line PT I would sign up!! 🙂 You know your stuff!!
Congrats! Can’t wait to hear more about it!
I know I’m a little late, but Congrats, Julie!! That’s so exciting! As much as I love when I have days off in a row at home, I agree with you – you do start to miss the human interaction…we can only talk to our dogs so much! Haha. Can’t wait to hear (read) about your upcoming adventures in this 🙂
Congratulations, Julie! Could not be happier for you!
That chicken looks D-Vine. Super moist.
Ahh- super exciting! Don’t know how I missed this post!